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 October 2016 - May 2017 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 - 9 and features:
- 15 new crash dump analysis patterns - New Linux core dump analysis pattern - 18 new software trace and log analysis patterns - Introduction to topological software trace and log analysis - Introduction to software diagnostic spaces as general graphs of software narratives - Software diagnostics as archaeology - Introduction to pattern-oriented diagnostic analysis process - Principles of pattern-oriented software data analysis - Abstract debugging commands (ADC) initiative - Introduction to elementary analysis patterns and reduction of analysis pattern complexity - Introduction to categorical foundations of software diagnostics - Introduction to existential prognostics and periodic table of diagnostic patterns - Introduction to software codiagnostics - Volume index of memory dump analysis patterns - Volume index of trace and log analysis patterns