The Developer's Guide to Debugging

TRACE32® Expert Forum for AUTOMOTIVE Debugging & Tracing

mgwloka — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 17:54:08 +0000

Lauterbach is holding a workshop on debugging embedded systems in the Automotive domain. Title is “TRACE32® Expert Forum for AUTOMOTIVE Debugging & Tracing” . Agenda & Registration can be found here

Coordinates: May 18th, 2011, ARCONE Technologie Center, Höhenkirchen-Siegertsbrunn.

Updated link for GDB Tutorial

mgwloka — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 11:40:53 +0000

Rob Somers wrote to let us know that he has republished Peter Salzman’s GDB tutorial Using The GNU GDB Debugger, as this is a very useful resource.

embedded world Conference 2011 Nürnberg, Germany, March 1-3

mgwloka — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 02:33:45 +0000

The embedded world Conference 2011 is held in Nürnberg, Germany, from March 1-3, 2011. The program shows 2 sessions on debugging methods. One talk is by a colleague: “Introduction to Virtual Platforms”, March 2, 2011, Marc Serughetti, Synopsys.

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

mgwloka — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 17:13:36 +0000

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

Website Highlights

mgwloka — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 15:24:56 +0000

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…