Contains reprinted articles in full color (including 170 figures) from ten volumes of Memory Dump Analysis Anthology related to pattern-oriented software diagnostics with additional comments showing the historical development of this autonomous and distinctive discipline over the last 12 years. Some articles from the forthcoming volume 11 are also included. In addition to 13 new articles, the second edition also includes one relevant article from Debugged! MZ/PE magazine issue and the former Debugging Experts Magazine Online that was referenced in the text of the first edition of this book.
Contains articles from 13 volumes of Memory Dump Analysis Anthology related to pattern-oriented software diagnostics with comments showing the historical development of this autonomous and distinctive discipline over the last 14 years.
General trace and log analysis patterns allow application of uniform problem detection and solving approach across diverse software environments. This pattern language covers any execution artifact from a small debugging trace to a distributed log with billions of messages from hundreds of computers, thousands of software components, threads, and processes. Pattern-oriented trace and log analysis is applicable to troubleshooting and debugging Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, Android, iOS, z/OS, and any other possible computer platform. Its pattern catalog is a part of pattern-oriented software diagnostics, forensics, and prognostics developed by Software Diagnostics Institute (DumpAnalysis.org + TraceAnalysis.org). This reference reprints with corrections 100 patterns originally published in Memory Dump Analysis Anthology volumes 3 - 8a and Software Diagnostics Library (former Crash Dump Analysis blog, DumpAnalysis.org/blog). Full-color diagrams accompany most pattern descriptions.
This is a collection of Software Diagnostics Services webinar transcripts about pattern-oriented software diagnostics developed by Software Diagnostics Institute. Includes 9 seminars on pattern-driven software problem solving, software narratology, pattern-driven software diagnostics, systemic software diagnostics, pattern-based software diagnostics, philosophy of software diagnostics, victimware, malware narratives and pattern-oriented network trace analysis.
This reference volume consists of revised, edited, cross-referenced, and thematically organized selected articles from Software Diagnostics Institute (DumpAnalysis.org + TraceAnalysis.org) and Software Diagnostics Library (former Crash Dump Analysis blog, DumpAnalysis.org/blog) about software diagnostics, root cause analysis, debugging, crash and hang dump analysis, software trace and log analysis written in August 2020 - 14 August 2021 for software engineers developing and maintaining products on Windows and Linux platforms, quality assurance engineers testing software, technical support, escalation and site reliability engineers dealing with complex software issues, security and vulnerability researchers, reverse engineers, malware and memory forensics analysts. This volume is fully cross-referenced with volumes 1 - 13 and features: - 7 new crash dump analysis patterns with selected downloadable example memory dumps; - New crash dump analysis case study not previously published anywhere; - 14 new software trace and log analysis patterns; - Introduction to cloud analysis patterns; - Introduction to the fractal nature of software traces and logs; - Introduction to the general architecture of analysis pattern networks; - Lists of recommended books.
Contains revised, edited, cross-referenced, and thematically organized selected articles from Software Diagnostics Institute (DumpAnalysis.org + TraceAnalysis.org) and Software Diagnostics Library (former Crash Dump Analysis blog, DumpAnalysis.org/blog) about software diagnostics, debugging, crash dump analysis, software trace and log analysis, malware analysis and memory forensics written in November 2011 - May 2014 for software engineers developing and maintaining products on Windows (WinDbg) and Mac OS X (GDB) platforms, quality assurance engineers testing software, technical support and escalation engineers dealing with complex software issues, security researchers, malware analysts, reverse engineers, and memory forensics analysts. The seventh volume features: - 66 new crash dump analysis patterns - 46 new software log and trace analysis patterns - 18 core memory dump analysis patterns for Mac OS X and GDB - 10 malware analysis patterns - Additional unified debugging pattern - Additional user interface problem analysis pattern - Additional pattern classification including memory and log acquisition patterns - Additional .NET memory analysis patterns - Introduction to software problem description patterns - Introduction to software diagnostics patterns - Introduction to general abnormal structure and behavior patterns - Introduction to software disruption patterns - Introduction to static code analysis patterns - Introduction to network trace analysis patterns - Introduction to software diagnostics report schemes - Introduction to elementary software diagnostics patterns - Introduction to patterns of software diagnostics architecture - Introduction to patterns of disassembly, reconstruction and reversing - Introduction to vulnerability analysis patterns - Fully cross-referenced with Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, Volume 4, Volume 5, and Volume 6
This is a collection of Software Diagnostics Services webinar transcripts about memory dump analysis methodology developed by Software Diagnostics Institute. Includes 6 seminars on physical memory dump analysis, cloud memory dump analysis, patterns, tools, processes and best practices for software trace and memory dump analysis, pattern-oriented software forensics, a pattern language for memory forensics, and mobile software diagnostics.
This full color reference volume consists of revised, edited, cross-referenced, and thematically organized articles from Software Diagnostics Institute (DumpAnalysis.org) and Software Diagnostics Library (former Crash Dump Analysis blog, DumpAnalysis.org/blog) written in August 2006 - December 2007. It is useful for: - Software engineers developing and maintaining products on Windows platforms; - Technical support and escalation engineers dealing with complex software issues; - Quality assurance engineers testing software on Windows platforms; - Security researchers, reverse engineers, malware and memory forensics analysts; - Some articles will be of interest to a general Windows user.
Contains revised, edited, cross-referenced, and thematically organized selected articles from Software Diagnostics Institute (DumpAnalysis.org + TraceAnalysis.org) and Software Diagnostics Library (former Crash Dump Analysis blog, DumpAnalysis.org/blog) about software diagnostics, debugging, crash dump analysis, memory forensics, software trace and log analysis written in December 2014 - July 2015 for software engineers developing and maintaining products on Windows platforms, quality assurance engineers testing software, technical support and escalation engineers dealing with complex software issues, security researchers, reverse engineers, malware and memory forensics analysts. This volume is fully cross-referenced with volumes 1 - 7, 8a, and features: - 12 new crash dump analysis patterns; - 15 new software log and trace analysis patterns; - New memory dump analysis case study; - Introduction to articoding; - Introduction to special and general trace and log analysis; - Introduction to projective debugging; - Introduction to artifact-malware; - Introduction to concrete and general problem analysis patterns.
Contains revised, edited, cross-referenced, and thematically organized selected articles from Software Diagnostics Institute (DumpAnalysis.org + TraceAnalysis.org) and Software Diagnostics Library (former Crash Dump Analysis blog, DumpAnalysis.org/blog) about software diagnostics, debugging, crash dump analysis, memory forensics, software trace and log analysis written in June 2014 - November 2014 for software engineers developing and maintaining products on Windows platforms, quality assurance engineers testing software, technical support and escalation engineers dealing with complex software issues, security researchers, reverse engineers, malware and memory forensics analysts. This volume is fully cross-referenced with volumes 1 - 7 and features: - 19 new crash dump analysis patterns; - 10 new software log and trace analysis patterns; - Introduction to malnarratives and higher-order pattern narratives; - Introduction to pattern language for performance analysis; - Introduction to pattern-oriented debugging process.
This reference reprints with corrections, additional comments, and classification 373 alphabetically arranged and cross-referenced memory analysis patterns originally published in Memory Dump Analysis Anthology volumes 1 - 9 including 5 analysis patterns from volume 10a. This pattern catalog is a part of pattern-oriented software diagnostics, forensics, prognostics, root cause analysis, and debugging developed by Software Diagnostics Institute (DumpAnalysis.org + TraceAnalysis.org). Most of the analysis patterns are illustrated with examples for WinDbg from Debugging Tools for Windows with a few examples from Mac OS X and Linux for GDB. The second edition includes more than 50 new analysis patterns and more than 70 new examples and comments for analysis patterns published in the first edition.
This reference volume consists of revised, edited, cross-referenced, and thematically organized selected articles from Software Diagnostics Institute and Software Diagnostics Library about software diagnostics, root cause analysis, debugging, crash and hang dump analysis, software trace and log analysis written in June 2017 - November 2018.
This reference volume consists of revised, edited, cross-referenced, and thematically organized selected articles from Software Diagnostics Institute and Software Diagnostics Library about software diagnostics, root cause analysis, debugging, crash and hang dump analysis, software trace and log analysis written in March - September 2016.
This reference reprints with corrections, additional comments, and classification 326 alphabetically arranged and cross-referenced memory analysis patterns originally published in Memory Dump Analysis Anthology volumes 1 - 8. This pattern catalog is a part of pattern-oriented software diagnostics, forensics, and prognostics developed by Software Diagnostics Institute (DumpAnalysis.org + TraceAnalysis.org). Most of the patterns are illustrated with examples for WinDbg from Debugging Tools for Windows with a few examples from Mac OS X for GDB.
This reference volume consists of revised, edited, cross-referenced, and thematically organized selected articles from Software Diagnostics Institute and Software Diagnostics Library about software diagnostics, root cause analysis, debugging, crash and hang dump analysis, software trace and log analysis written in October 2016 - May 2017
This is a supplemental volume of 150 full color illustrations from Memory Dump Analysis Anthology: revised, edited, cross-referenced, and thematically organized selected articles from Software Diagnostics Institute (DumpAnalysis.org + TraceAnalysis.org) and Software Diagnostics Library (former Crash Dump Analysis blog, DumpAnalysis.org/blog) about software diagnostics, debugging, crash dump analysis, software narratology, software trace and log analysis, malware analysis and memory forensics written in November 2011 - May 2014 for software engineers developing and maintaining software products, quality assurance engineers testing software, technical support and escalation engineers dealing with complex software issues, security researchers, malware analysts, reverse engineers, digital forensics analysts, computer security and cyber warfare intelligence professionals, computer scientists, conceptual digital artists, and philosophers. Unique in its breadth, depth, and scope it offers unprecedented insight into the world of software behavior and draws profound engineering, scientific, artistic, and philosophical implications.
This is a transcript of Software Diagnostics Services Webinar about a comprehensive theory behind software forensics based on systemic and pattern-oriented software diagnostics developed by Software Diagnostics Institute. It synthesises pattern-oriented memory analysis of malware and victimware with pattern-oriented software log and trace analysis based on software narratology.
Feel frustrated when opening a software trace with millions of messages from hundreds of software components, threads and processes? Go beyond simple CPU and disk hog monitoring or searching for errors in a text and learn how to efficiently and effectively analyze software traces and logs from complex software environments. Covered popular software logs and trace formats from Microsoft and Citrix products and tools including Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) and Citrix Common Diagnostics Format (CDF). This course teaches using pioneering and innovative pattern-driven and pattern-based analysis of abnormal software behavior incidents developed by Software Diagnostics Institute.
The full transcript of Software Diagnostics Services training with 28 step-by-step exercises, notes, source code of specially created modelling applications and more than 100 questions and answers. Covers more than 60 crash dump analysis patterns from x86 and x64 process, kernel, complete (physical), and active memory dumps. Learn how to analyse application, service and system crashes and freezes, navigate through memory dump space and diagnose heap corruption, memory leaks, CPU spikes, blocked threads, deadlocks, wait chains, and much more. The training uses a unique and innovative pattern-oriented analysis approach developed by Software Diagnostics Institute to speed up the learning curve. Prerequisites: Basic Windows troubleshooting. Audience: Software technical support and escalation engineers, system administrators, security researchers, reverse engineers, malware and memory forensics analysts, software developers and quality assurance engineers. The 4th edition was fully reworked to use WinDbg 10 and now covers memory dumps from Windows 10 x64. It also includes optional legacy exercises from the previous editions covering Windows Vista and Windows 7.
The full transcript of Software Diagnostics Services (former Memory Dump Analysis Services) training with 12 step-by-step exercises. Learn how to analyse app crashes and freezes, navigate through process core memory dump space and diagnose corruption, memory leaks, CPU spikes, blocked threads, deadlocks, wait chains, and much more. We use a unique and innovative pattern-driven analysis approach to speed up the learning curve. The training consists of practical step-by-step exercises using GDB and LLDB debuggers highlighting more than 30 memory analysis patterns diagnosed in 64-bit process core memory dumps. The training also includes source code of modelling applications written in Xcode environment, a catalogue of relevant patterns from Software Diagnostics Institute, and an overview of relevant similarities and differences between Windows and Mac OS X user space memory dump analysis useful for engineers with Wintel background. Audience: Software technical support and escalation engineers, system administrators, software developers, security professionals and quality assurance engineers.
This reference reprints with corrections 177 analysis patterns originally published in Memory Dump Analysis Anthology volumes 3 - 11 (including selected patterns from the forthcoming volume 12). Full-color diagrams accompany most pattern descriptions. The third edition includes 44 more patterns, additional diagrams, and pattern classification.
This is a transcript of Software Diagnostics Services Webinar about how pattern-based software diagnostics, troubleshooting and debugging address software post-construction problem solving pattern life cycle: from the discovery of a new pattern through its integration into an existing pattern catalogue and pattern language, testing, packaging and delivering to pattern consumers with subsequent usage, refactoring and writing case studies.
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