Why Programs Fail : A Guide to Systematic Debugging

Andreas Zeller

ISBN 10: 1558608664 / ISBN 13: 9781558608665

Published by Elsevier LTD, Oxford, 2005

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Why Programs Fail : A Guide to Systematic Debugging
• Publisher: Elsevier LTD, Oxford
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1558608664
• ISBN 13: 9781558608665
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Sehr gut
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Synopsis

Why Programs Fail is about bugs in computer programs, how to find them, how to reproduce them, and how to fix them in such a way that they do not occur anymore. This is the first comprehensive book on systematic debugging and covers a wide range of tools and techniques ranging from hands-on observation to fully automated diagnoses, and includes instructions for building automated debuggers. This discussion is built upon a solid theory of how failures occur, rather than relying on seat-of-the-pants techniques, which are of little help with large software systems or to those learning to program. The author, Andreas Zeller, is well known in the programming community for creating the GNU Data Display Debugger (DDD), a tool that visualizes the data structures of a program while it is running.

About the Author

Andreas Zeller is a computer science professor at Saarland University, Germany. His research centers on programmer productivity: What can be done to ease the life and work of programmers? Among Linux and Unix programmers Zeller is best known for GNU DDD, a debugger front-end with built-in data visualization. Among academics and advanced professionals, Zeller is best known for delta debugging, a technique that automatically isolates failure causes for computer programs. His work is equally divided between teaching, reading, writing, programming, and flying back and forth across the Atlantic. He lives with his family in Saarbraken, on the German border with France.