Books on Debugging
Here is a list of books on debugging:
 
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D.J. Agans, Debugging: The Nine Indispensable Rules for Finding Even the Most Elusive Software and Hardware Problems. American Management Association, 2002 |
 
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S. Ball, Debugging Embedded Microprocessor Systems. Newnes, 1998 |
 
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A. Barr, Find the Bug.Addison-Wesley Professional, 2004 |
 
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Bill Blunden, Software Exorcism: A Handbook for Debugging and Optimizing Legacy Code. Apress, 2003 |
 
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M.H. Brown, Algorithm animation. MIT Press, 1988 |
 
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A.R. Ford, T.J. Teorey, Practical Debugging in C++. Prentice Hall, 2002 |
 
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P.A. Fritzson (Editor), Automated and Algorithmic Debugging: First International Workshop, Aadebug ’93 Linkoping, Sweden, May 3-5, 1993: Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). Springer 1993 |
 
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T. Grötker, U. Holtmann, H. Keding, M. Wloka, The Developer’s Guide to Debugging. Springer-Verlag, 2008 |
 
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M. Hewardt, D. Pravat, Advanced Windows Debugging. Addison-Wesley 2007 |
 
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K. Kaspersky, Hacker Debugging Uncovered. A-List Publishing, 2005 |
 
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R. Lencevicius, Advanced Debugging Methods. Springer, 2000 |
 
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J. DiMarzio, The Debugger’s Handbook. AUERBACH 2006 |
 
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N. Matloff, The Art of Debugging with GDB, DDD, and Eclipse. No Starch Press 2008 |
 
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E. McKay, M. Woodring, Debugging Windows Programs: Strategies, Tools, and Techniques for Visual C++ Programmers. Addison-Wesley 2000 |
 
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R.C. Metzger, Debugging by Thinking: A Multidisciplinary Approach. Digital Press, 2003 |
 
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G.J. Myers, C. Sandler, T. Badgett, T.M. Thomas, The Art of Software Testing, Second Edition. John Wiley & Sons, 2004 |
 
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C.H. Pappas, W.H. Murray, Debugging C++. Osborne Publishing, 2000 |
 
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J.B. Rosenberg, How Debuggers Work: Algorithms, Data Structures, and Architecture. Wiley, 1996 |
 
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E. Shapiro, Algorithmic Program Debugging. The MIT Press, 1983 |
 
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M. Stitt, Debugging: Creative Techniques and Tools for Software Repair. John Wiley & Sons Inc, 1992 |
 
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M.A. Telles, Y. Hsieh, The Science of Debugging. Coriolis Group Books, 2001 |
 
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D. Vostokov, Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 1. Opentask, 2008. See Crash Dump Analysis and Debugging Portal for examples, book reviews, tools, links, and how to contact the author |
 
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D. Vostokov, Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 2. Opentask, 2008 |
 
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A. Zeller, Why Programs Fail, Second Edition: A Guide to Systematic Debugging. Morgan Kaufmann, 2009. See Why Programs Fail for software, examples, tools, references, slides, errata, and how to contact the author |
Books on Debugging Tools
 
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J. Seward, N Nethercote, J Weidendorfer, Valgrind 3.3 – Advanced Debugging and Profiling for GNU/Linux applications. Network Theory Ltd., 2008 |
 
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R. Stallmann, R. Pesch, S. Shebs, Debugging with GDB: The GNU Source-Level Debugger. Free Software Foundation; 9 edition 2002 GDB reference manual. An updated PDF version of this book can be downloaded at http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/documentation |
Books on Debugging Embedded System Software
 
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M. Barr, A. Massa, Programming Embedded Systems. O´Reilly, 2nd. Edition, 2006 |
 
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L. Simone, If I Only Changed the Software, Why is the Phone on Fire? Embedded Debugging Methods Revealed: Technical Mysteries for Engineers. Newnes, 2007 |
Books about Parallel Programming and Debugging
 
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R. Chandra, R. Menon, L. Dagum, D. Kohr, D. Maydan, J. McDonald, Parallel Programming in OpenMP. Morgan Kaufmann, 2000 |
 
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B. Chapman, G. Jost, R. van der Pas, Using OpenMP: Portable Shared Memory Parallel Programming. The MIT Press 2007 |
 
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R. Eigenmann (Editor), M. Voss (Editor), OpenMP Shared Memory Parallel Programming: International Workshop on OpenMP Applications and Tools, WOMPAT 2001, West Lafayette, IN, USA, July 30-31, 2001. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). Springer 2001 |
 
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A. H. Hayes, J. S. Brown, M. L. Simmons, Debugging and Performance Tuning for Parallel Computing Systems (IEEE Computer Society Press). John Wiley & Sons 1996 |
 
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J. Reinders, Intel Threading Building Blocks: Outfitting C++ for Multi-core Processor Parallelism. O’Reilly Media 2007 |
Books on Related CS Topics
 
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K. Beck, C. Andres, Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change. Addison-Wesley Professional, 2nd Edition 2004 |
 
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T.H. Cormen, C.E. Leiserson, R.L. Rivest, C. Stein, Introduction to Algorithms, Second Edition. The MIT Press, 2nd Edition, 2001 |
 
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T. Grötker, S. Liao, G. Martin, S. Swan, System Design with SystemC. Springer, 2002 |
| D. Keppel, Tools and Techniques for Building Fast Portable Threads Packages. Technical report University of Washington, 1993 | |
 
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B. Kernighan, D. Ritchie, The C Programming Language. Prentice Hall, 2nd Edition, 1988. The classic book on C. The 2nd Edition is based on the ANSI C standard. |
 
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J. Levine, Linkers and Loaders. Morgan Kaufmann, 2000 |
 
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S. Meyers, Effective C++: 55 Specific Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs. Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series, 3rd Edition, 2005. See also Scott Meyer’s www.aristeia.com for other books on software development, training classes, and his top-5 lists of the most important C++ books, articles, people, software, and C++ Aha! Moments |
 
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R. Sedgewick, Bundle of Algorithms in C++, Parts 1-5: Fundamentals, Data Structures, Sorting, Searching, and Graph Algorithms (3rd Edition). Addison-Wesley Professional, 2001 |
 
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R. E. Tarjan, Data Structures and Network Algorithms. Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics, 1987. Classic textbook on algorithms. Very precise, elegant proofs, our candidate for CS book with the highest content/word ratio |
Journals
A list of journals that contain debugging topics:
ACM
The ACM Portal lets you search the full text collection of every article published by the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery).
Example articles on debugging topics
- The Debugging Scandal and What to Do About It, Henry Lieberman, April 1997
- Uprooting Software Defects at the Source, Seth Hallem, Coverity, Nov. 2003
Dr. Dobb’s Journal
Dr. Dobb’s Portal is the web page for Dr. Dobb’s Journal, a monthly magazine on software development. For relevant articles, go to the Magazine Archive, and search for keywords “debugging”, “debugger”, “profiler”, and other keywords applicable to debugging. There is also a department section on Testing & Debugging
Here is some example articles on debugging topics:
- Measuring Execution Time and Real-time Performance: Part 1 and Part 2, David B. Stewart, InHand Electronics, Inc., Nov. 2006
- Avoiding the Most Common Software Development Goofs, Ben Chelf, Coverity, Feb. 2006
- Debugging Complex Embedded Applications, Graham Morphew, April 2005
IEEE
IEEE Explore, full searchable text access to the IEEE archives. For relevant articles, search for keywords “debugging”, “debugger”, and “profiler”.
Example articles:
- Software debugging, testing, and verification, by B. Hailpern and P. Santhanam
Linux Journal
Linux Journal is the web page of the monthly Linux Journal magazine. For relevant articles, go to the Magazine Archive, and search for keywords “debugging”, “debugger”, and “profiler”.
Example articles:
- Advanced Memory Allocation, by Gianluca Insolvibile.
- gprof, bprof and Time Profilers, by Andy Vaught.
Software Test & Performance
Software Test & Performance is a magazine on software quality and performance.
Research Papers on Debugging
- Delta Debugging: From automated testing to automated debugging – web site for the Delta Debugging project at the Software Engineering Chair, Saarland University. Also see Why Programs Fail on the same topic.
- Ben Liblit: Bug Isolation in an Imperfect World – research papers on new approaches to debugging
- The Design and Implementation of a Dataflow Language for Scriptable Debugging, G. Marceau, G. H. Cooper, J. P. Spiro, S. Krishnamurthi, S. P. Reiss, Automated Software Engineering Journal, 2006. – web page has abstract, software, and PDF paper
- A Survey of Systems for Detecting Serial Run-time Errors, G. Luecke, J. Coyle. J. Hoekstra, M. Kraeva, Y. Li, O. Taborskaia, Y. Wang, 2006. – evaluation of tools for detecting run-time errors in C and C++