The Developer’s Guide to Debugging is a book for both professional software developers seeking to broaden their skills and students that want to learn the tricks of the trade from the ground up. With small examples and exercises it is well suited to accompany a CS course or lecture. At the same time it can be used as a reference guide to address problems as the need arises. This book goes beyond the level of simple source code debugging scenarios. In addition, itcovers the most frequent real-world problems from the areas of program linking, memory access, parallel processing and performance analysis. The picture iscompleted by chapters covering static checkers and techniques to write code that leans well towards debugging. While the focus lies on C and C++, the workhorses of the software industry, one can apply many techniques described in TheDeveloper’s Guide to Debugging to programs written in other languages. Not restricted to a specific combination of compiler, debugger, and operating systemAt the same time it is not too high level Contains examples that can be reproduced with open source software on different UNIX and Windows platforms Remains focused on software debugging and does not drift into areas such as fixing broken hardware INDICE: 1. You write Software; You have Bugs - Why You Need This Book. 2. A Systematic Approach to Debugging. 3. Getting to the Root - Source Code Debuggers. 4. Fixing Memory Problems. 5. Profiling Memory Use. 6. Solving Performance Problems. 7. Debugging Parallel Programs. 8. Finding Environment and Compiler Problems. 9. Dealing with Linking Problems. 10. Advanced Debugging. 11. Writing Debuggable Code. 12. How Static Checking Can Help. 13. Summary. Appendices: A: Debugger Commands. B: Access to Tools. C: Source Code. Index.
- ISBN: 978-1-4020-5539-3
- Editorial: Springer
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 300
- Fecha Publicación: 01/08/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés