By
Andreas Zeller, Saarland University, Saarbruecken, Germany
Description
This fully updated second edition includes 100+ pages of new material, including new chapters on Verifying Code, Predicting Errors,
and Preventing Errors. Cutting-edge tools such as FindBUGS and AGITAR are explained, techniques from integrated environments like Jazz.net
are highlighted, and all-new demos with ESC/Java and Spec#, Eclipse and Mozilla are included.
This complete and pragmatic overview
of debugging is authored by Andreas Zeller, the talented researcher who developed the GNU Data Display Debugger(DDD), a tool that over
250,000 professionals use to visualize the data structures of programs while they are running. Unlike other books on debugging, Zeller's
text is product agnostic, appropriate for all programming languages and skill levels.
Why Programs Fail explains best
practices ranging from systematically tracking error reports, to observing symptoms, reproducing errors, and correcting defects. It covers
a wide range of tools and techniques from hands-on observation to fully automated diagnoses, and also explores the author's innovative
techniques for isolating minimal input to reproduce an error and for tracking cause and effect through a program. It even includes instructions
on how to create automated debugging tools.
Audience:
Computer programmers, software developers, analysts and testers
