Archive for October 26th, 2008

Bugtation No.56

Sunday, October 26th, 2008

This is an example of a complex bugtation:

Bugteriology is the study of bugteria. “It comprises the identification, classification and characterization of” bugterial “species.” Bugteria “are identified by their properties, for example their looks, what” memory dumps “they can” appear in “or not” appear in, “what” bugs “they require for growth, what” effects “they produce, etc. To study morphology, that is the” phenotype “of” bugteria, “a” debugger “is used.”

Virtual Museum of Bacteria, Bacteriology: the study of bacteria

- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org -

Introducing Bugteriology

Sunday, October 26th, 2008

I continued thinking about bugteria in memory dumps all the day yesterday and came to the conclusion that the study of crash dump analysis patterns needs its own name and the obvious choice was Bugteriology:

Bugteriology is the study of crash dump analysis patterns (bugteria). Its main subject is identification, classification and characterization of such patterns found in memory dumps (bugterial species).

I initially registered a domain for this purpose (later abandoned) pointing to crash dump analysis and debugging portal but I want to think through this idea and perhaps make it a subdomain of dumpanalysis.org with a page for easy online pattern classification and make it also an online supplement to forthcoming encyclopedia of crash dump analysis patterns.

- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org -