The website debugging-guide.com contains examples, reviews, and errata for the book "The Developer's Guide to Debugging". You will also find up-to-date references to tools, books, journals, research papers, conferences, tutorials, and links to other debugging websites.

ISSTA 2015 International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis

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“ISSTA is the leading research symposium on software testing and analysis, bringing together academics, industrial researchers, and practitioners to exchange new ideas, problems, and experience on how to analyze and test software systems. ISSTA 2015 will be held at Baltimore, Maryland on July 12-17, 2015.”
More information is available here.

Udacity class on Software Debugging

Posted by on May 30, 2013 No comments

Andreas Zeller and Gundega Dekena have created a class on software debugging, and how to create your own debugging tools: Udacity CS259 Software Debugging

S4D 2012 System, Software, SoC and Silicon Debug Conference Sep. 2012 Vienna, Austria

Posted by on June 1, 2012 No comments

The S4D 2012 System, Software, SoC and Silicon Debug Conference will take place on Sep. 19-20, 2012 in Vienna, Austria. From the announcement: “The conference addresses a vast set of requirements from system and SoC companies with regard to debug methods”. More information can be found at S4D

The Developer’s Guide to Debugging, 2nd Edition

Posted by on May 6, 2012 No comments

The Developer’s Guide to Debugging, 2nd Edition, has been published! We decided to self-publish with Createspace and Kindle, to reach a wider audience. We also incorporated a number of corrections and bug fixes.

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Paperback Edition of Andreas Zeller’s “Why Programs Fail”

Posted by on February 21, 2011 No comments

Andreas Zeller’s book on debugging: “Why Programs Fail” is available as a second edition on paperback.

Website Highlights

Posted by on February 20, 2011 Comments Off on Website Highlights

The website debugging-guide.com contains examples, reviews, and errata for the book “The Developer’s Guide to Debugging”. You will also find up-to-date references to tools, books, journals, research papers, conferences, tutorials, and links to other debugging websites.

Access to tools – A list of proven debugging tools. Read more in Tools…

Books – we are compiling a list of books on debugging and related topics. Read more in Literature…

Our favorites:

D.J. Agans, Debugging: The Nine Indispensable Rules for Finding Even the Most Elusive Software and Hardware Problems. American Management Association, 2002.
A. Zeller, Why Programs Fail, Second Edition: A Guide to Systematic Debugging. Morgan Kaufmann, 2009
M. Hewardt, D. Pravat, Advanced Windows Debugging. Addison-Wesley 2007

Events – we are keeping a calendar of events for conferences and workshops that have talks, presentations on debugging topics. Follow this blog page…

Journals – Dr. Dobb’s Journal, The ACM Portal, IEEE Explore, etc., contain a wealth of articles on debugging, profiling, and testing. We are working on creating references to the most interesting articles in these vast archives. Read more in Literature…

Research – We are augmenting the central aadebug website with our own collection of links to research in debugging. Read more in Literature…

Tutorials – There is a variety of instruction material on debugging available, ranging from GDB tutorials to complete university classes. Read more in Links…

Websites – the debugging web site with the most references is Algorithmic and Automatic Debugging Home Page. The web site also maintains an active list of research projects on debugging and automated testing. Read more in Links…

Wikipedia – the English version of the free internet encyclopedia contains a large number of well written, and well refereed, articles, and references for further reading. Good keywords are Debugging, Debugger, Profiling, List_of_tools_for_static_code_analysis. Read more in Links…