Effective Debugging: Source Code This repository contains the source code used in the book Effective Debugging (Addison-Wesley, 2016). Chapter 1: High-Level Strategies Item 7: Diversify Your Build and Execution Environment Demonstrate differences in the size of primitive elements among various architectures and operating systems Chapter 2: General-Purpose Methods and Practices Item 12: Automate Complex Testing Scenarios Demonstrate debugging through the embedding of Lua Chapter 4: Debugger Techniques Item 31: Familiarize Yourself with Reverse Debugging Simple program to demonstrate reverse debugging Item 33: Look for Errors by Examining the Values of Variables and Expressions A doubly-linked list in Python Item 37: Know How to View Assembly Code and Raw Memory Examples of how source code is compiled into assembly language Chapter 5: Programming Techniques Item 41: Add Logging Statements Logging in diverse languages and frameworks Item 42: Use Unit Tests Unit testing of a simple C++ class Item 43: Use Assertions Demonstration of assertions Item 49: Fix the Bug's Cause, Rather Than Its Symptom Demonstrate and verify the use of modulo arithmetic rather than special cases Chapter 6: Compile-Time Techniques Item 50: Examine Generated Code Demonstrate how assembly code can reveal hidden method calls Item 51: Use Static Program Analysis Demonstrate how FindBugs will report an incorrect spin loop Item 52: Configure Deterministic Builds and Executions Demonstrate deterministic and non-deterministic builds Item 53: Configure the Use of Debugging Libraries and Checks Examples demonstrating bugs caught by enabling compilation options Chapter 7: Runtime Techniques Item 57: Profile the Operation of Systems and Processes Demonstrate resource utilization issues Item 59: Use Dynamic Program Analysis Tools Demonstrate the use of Valgrind to find memory errors Chapter 8: Debugging Multi-threaded Code Item 60: Analyze Deadlocks with Postmortem Debugging Programs that deadlock Item 61: Capture and Replicate Source code used for the PinPlay demonstration Item 62: Uncover Deadlocks and Race Conditions with Specialized Tools A race condition in Java Source code used for Intel Inspector XE demonstration Item 64: Investigate Scalability Issues by Looking at Contention Demonstrate scalability problem due to lock contention Item 65: Locate False Sharing by Using Performance Counters Demonstrate scalability problem due false sharing Item 66: Consider Rewriting the Code Using Higher-Level Abstractions Demonstrate the speedup that can be obtained through the use of ATLAS Demonstrate speedup of R's mclapply function Demonstrate the concurrent name resolution of IP addresses
