Archive for April 22nd, 2011

A.C.P. Root Cause Analysis Methodology

Friday, April 22nd, 2011

Very simple methodology summarized in just 3 words applicable to any problem solving domain and its activities including software troubleshooting and debugging:

Artifacts. Checklists. Patterns.

As an example of checklists and patterns please see these 3 presentations related to memory dump and software trace artifacts:

Introduction to Pattern-Driven Software Problem Solving

Fundamentals of Complete Crash and Hang Memory Dump Analysis

Pattern-Driven Memory Dump Analysis 

I’m now working on a detailed presentation of this methodology. 

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

.NET / CLR / Managed Space Patterns

Friday, April 22nd, 2011

A page to reference all different kinds of .NET related patterns is necessary, so I created this post:

I’ll update it as soon as I add more similar patterns.

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