Archive for the ‘CDA Pattern Classification’ Category

Forthcoming Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 4

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

This is a revised, edited, cross-referenced and thematically organized volume of selected DumpAnalysis.org blog posts about crash dump analysis and debugging written in July 2009 - January 2010 for software engineers developing and maintaining products on Windows platforms, quality assurance engineers testing software on Windows platforms and technical support and escalation engineers dealing with complex software issues. The fourth volume features:

- 13 new crash dump analysis patterns
- 13 new pattern interaction case studies
- 10 new trace analysis patterns
- 6 new Debugware patterns and case study
- Workaround patterns
- Updated checklist
- Fully cross-referenced with Volume 1, Volume 2 and Volume 3
- New appendixes

Product information:

  • Title: Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 4
  • Author: Dmitry Vostokov
  • Language: English
  • Product Dimensions: 22.86 x 15.24
  • Paperback: 410 pages
  • Publisher: Opentask (30 March 2010)
  • ISBN-13: 978-1-906717-86-5
  • Hardcover: 410 pages
  • Publisher: Opentask (30 April 2010)
  • ISBN-13: 978-1-906717-87-2

Back cover features memory space art image: Internal Process Combustion.

- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org + TraceAnalysis.org -

Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 3

Sunday, December 20th, 2009

“Memory dumps are facts.”

I’m very excited to announce that Volume 3 is available in paperback, hardcover and digital editions:

Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 3

Table of Contents

In two weeks paperback edition should also appear on Amazon and other bookstores. Amazon hardcover edition is planned to be available in January 2010.

The amount of information was so voluminous that I had to split the originally planned volume into two. Volume 4 should appear by the middle of February together with Color Supplement for Volumes 1-4. 

- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org -

Darwinian Debugging

Monday, October 12th, 2009

To commemorate 200 years since Darwin’s birth and 150 years since the publication of The Origin of Species, OpenTask plans to dedicate December, 2009 issue of Debugged! MZ/PE magazine to taxonomy and evolution of software defects and March, 2010 issue to multithreading (as natural selection).

Debugged! MZ/PE: Systematics and Evolution of Software Defects, December, 2009 (Paperback, ISBN: 978-1906717827)

Debugged! MZ/PE: Multithreading, March, 2010 (Paperback, ISBN: 978-1906717834)

Here are draft front covers designed during last weekend:

- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org -

Debugged! Magazine

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

As one of the new initiatives for the Year of Debugging  DumpAnalysis Portal will publish bimonthly full color 16 page publication called:

Debugged! MZ/PE: MagaZine for/from Practicing Engineers
The only serial publication dedicated entirely to Windows® debugging

The first issue is planned for March, 2009 and will have ISBN-13: 978-1-906717-38-4. If it goes well I’m planning to have ISSN number assigned to it too. More details will be announced soon.

- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org

CDA Pattern Classification (Memory dump type)

Monday, July 21st, 2008

The following table provides correspondence between memory dump types (user, kernel and complete) and pattern names. For ALL, where appropriate, I also list the most common dump types where a pattern can be encountered.

Table: CDA Pattern Classification (Memory dump type)

- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org -

CDA Pattern Classification (Space/Mode)

Monday, July 21st, 2008

The following table provides correspondence between kernel / user mode and space and pattern names. ALL means that a pattern is observable in both modes / spaces.

Table: CDA Pattern Classification (Space/Mode)

- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org -

CDA Pattern Classification (Overview)

Sunday, July 20th, 2008

Thinking for a while I realized that it is not possible to create one classification scheme because one pattern can belong to several categories. Therefore I came up with the following draft list of them:

  • - Space / Mode
  • - Memory dump type
  • - Dynamical (Activity) / Structural (State)
  • - Architecture / Design / Implementation
  • - Entity-dependence
  • - System / Subsystem / Component / Object
  • - Cosmogony (How?)
  • - Management (Why?)
  • - Error class 
  • - Observable behaviour

Next two posts will present classification based on Space/Mode and Memory dump type.

- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org -