Software bugs

Yuriy Brun and Michael D. Ernst are publishing a paper in ICSE’04, Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Software Engineering, (Edinburgh, Scotland), May 26-28, 2004. on Finding latent code errors via machine learning over program executions.

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The mod_perl site has a very comprehensive guide to debugging mod_perl applications.

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Malcolm suggests that bug hunters should adopt some of the same face saving techniques described by The Old New Thing that product support people use to avoid embarrassing their customers with obvious questions.

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Muli Ben-Yehuda has prepared kernel debugging slides [PDF, 143kb] for a proposed one day workshop on kernel development.

Via mulix.

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Panopticon Central has Ten Rules of Performance.

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del.icio.us yielded up two Java debuggers for me: Omniscient Debugger and FindBugs — a bug pattern finder.

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Lars Wirzenius taught his students binary search using bug hunting.

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Callum McKenzie rants about minimalistic patches that fix crashes without fixing the underlying problem.

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Guido van Rossum has an essay on reference count debugging that argues that there’s no substitute for understanding the reference behaviour of your code.

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Clint Jeffery maintains the Algorithmic and Automatic Debugging Home Page, an extensive collection of links to research on, and researchers working on, automatic debugging.

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Paolo Bonzini gives Debugging: The Nine Indispensable Rules for Finding Even the Most Elusive Software and Hardware Problems by David J. Agans a positive review in his advogato diary.

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