This revised, cross-referenced, and thematically organized volume of selected DumpAnalysis.org blog posts targets software engineers developing and maintaining products on Windows platforms, technical support, and escalation engineers.
This revised, cross-referenced, and thematically organized volume of selected DumpAnalysis.org blog posts targets software engineers developing and maintaining products on Windows platforms, technical support, and escalation engineers.
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 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
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.
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 training with 23 step-by-step exercises, notes, source code of specially created modeling applications and more than 100 questions and answers. Covers more than 50 crash dump analysis patterns diagnosed in 32-bit and 64-bit process, kernel and complete memory dumps. Learn how to analyze 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-driven analysis approach to speed up the learning curve. Prerequisites: Basic Windows troubleshooting. Audience: software technical support and escalation engineers, system administrators, security professionals, software developers and quality assurance engineers.
The full transcript of Software Diagnostics Services training course with 12 step-by-step exercises, notes, and selected questions and answers. Learn how to navigate through memory dump space and Windows data structures to diagnose, troubleshoot and debug complex software incidents.
The full transcript of Software Diagnostics Services training with 25 step-by-step exercises, notes, source code of specially created modelling applications and more than 100 questions and answers. Covers more than 50 crash dump analysis patterns diagnosed in 32-bit and 64-bit process, kernel and complete 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-driven analysis approach to speed up the learning curve. Prerequisites: Basic Windows troubleshooting. Audience: software technical support and escalation engineers, system administrators, security professionals, software developers and quality assurance engineers. The 3rd edition was updated to the latest version of WinDbg from Debugging Tools for Windows and includes news exercises for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 crash dumps.
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.
The full transcript of Software Diagnostics Services training with 9 step-by-step exercises, notes and source code of specially created modeling applications and selected questions and answers. Covers 20 .NET memory dump analysis patterns plus additional unmanaged patterns. Learn how to analyze .NET application and service crashes and freezes, navigate through memory dump space (managed and unmanaged code) and diagnose corruption, leaks, CPU spikes, blocked threads, deadlocks, wait chains, resource contention, and much more. The training consists of practical step-by-step exercises using WinDbg to diagnose patterns in 32-bit and 64-bit process memory dumps. The training uses a unique and innovative pattern-driven analysis approach to speed up the learning curve. Prerequisites: Basic .NET programming and debugging. Audience: Software technical support and escalation engineers, system administrators, software developers and quality assurance engineers.
The full transcript of Software Diagnostics Services training with step-by-step exercises, notes, source code and selected Q&A. The third edition was fully reworked to use the latest WinDbg version and Windows 10. It also includes optional legacy exercises from the previous editions covering CLR 2 and 4, 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.
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.
The full transcript of Memory Dump Analysis Services Training with 10 step-by-step exercises, notes, and selected questions and answers. Learn how to navigate through memory dump space and Windows data structures to troubleshoot and debug complex software incidents. The training uses a unique and innovative pattern-driven analysis approach to speed up the learning curve. It consists of practical step-by-step exercises using WinDbg to diagnose structural and behavioural patterns in 64-bit kernel and complete (physical) memory dumps. Additional topics include memory search, kernel linked list navigation, practical WinDbg scripting, registry, system variables and objects, device drivers and I/O. Prerequisites are basic and intermediate level Windows memory dump analysis: ability to list processors, processes, threads, modules, apply symbols, walk through stack traces and raw stack data, diagnose patterns such as heap corruption, CPU spike, memory and handle leaks, access violation, stack overflow, critical section and resource wait chains and deadlocks. If you don't feel comfortable with prerequisites then Accelerated Windows Memory Dump Analysis training book is recommended before purchasing and reading this book course. Audience: Software developers, software technical support and escalation engineers, reverse and security research engineers. The 2nd edition contains updated exercises for the latest WinDbg version from Windows SDK 8.1.
Learn how to navigate through memory dump space and Windows data structures to troubleshoot and debug complex software incidents with the full transcript of Memory Dump Analysis Services Training's 10 step-by-step exercises, notes, and selected questions and answers.
Learn how to navigate process, kernel and physical spaces and diagnose various malware patterns in Windows memory dump files. We use a unique and innovative pattern-driven analysis approach to speed up the learning curve. The training consists of practical step-by-step hands-on exercises using WinDbg, process, kernel and complete memory dumps. Covered more than 20 malware analysis patterns. The main audience are software technical support and escalation engineers who analyze memory dumps from complex software environments and need to check for possible malware presence in cases of abnormal software behavior. The course will also be useful for software engineers, quality assurance and software maintenance engineers, security researchers and malware analysts who have never used WinDbg for analysis of computer memory.
The full transcript of Memory Dump Analysis Services training with 12 step-by-step exercises. Learn how to analyze 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 Xcode and GDB environments highlighting more than 30 patterns diagnosed in 64-bit process core memory dumps. The training also includes 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 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.
The full transcript of Software Diagnostics Services training with step-by-step exercises, notes, and source code to learn live local and remote debugging techniques in kernel, user process and managed .NET spaces using WinDbg debugger. The second edition was fully reworked and updated to use the latest WinDbg version and Windows 10.
Learn disassembly, execution history reconstruction and binary reversing techniques for better software diagnostics. troubleshooting and debugging on x64 Windows platforms. We use a unique and innovative pattern-driven analysis approach to speed up the learning curve. The training consists of practical step-by-step hands-on exercises using WinDbg and memory dumps. Covered more than 25 ADDR patterns and many concepts are illustrated with Memory Cell Diagrams. The prerequisites for this training are working knowledge of C and C++ programming languages. Operating system internals and assembly language concepts are explained when necessary. The main audience for this training are software technical support and escalation engineers who analyze memory dumps from complex software environments and need to go deeper in their analysis of abnormal software structure and behavior. The course will also be useful for software engineers, quality assurance and software maintenance engineers who debug their software running on diverse computer environments, security researchers and malware analysts who have never used WinDbg for analysis of computer memory.
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.
A reference book for technical support and escalation engineers troubleshooting and debugging complex software issues. The book is also invaluable for software maintenance and development engineers debugging Windows applications and services.
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