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Inherit a fortune (Debugging Slang, Part 16)

Thursday, September 30th, 2010

Inherit a fortune - To get a postmortem artifact like a crash dump.

Examples:

- My program died!
- Did you inherit a fortune?
- Oh, yeah!

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

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Music for Debugging: Retry, Abort, Escape

Saturday, July 3rd, 2010

Finally found music appropriate for ETW / CDF trace analysis. It’s Andre Gagnon’s album Escape:

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Here’s my version of track titles (some of them are also appropriate for crash dump analysis) with my comments in italics:

1. Non Fatal Error
2. Trace Dance (Samba)
3. En Hive
4. Char, The
5. L”Debug”
6. “Memoria”L
7. Process Hearts (cores)
8. Holidays (, but always looking back)
9. WOW (64)
10. DA+TA Master
11. Concert for 4 Threads (“Concertino” doesn’t sound good here)
12. Toc-Cat-ta of Strings
13. Bugville Promenade (along bug clusters?)
14. MOVS
15. The Sea Named Trace (after Solaris movie)
16. Catching The Bottle (it is often difficult to find a relevant problem message in a billion-line trace)
17. Debug Me Tender (DebugLove?)

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

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Ana-Trace-Log-Lyzer and Closed Session

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010

This paleodebugging tool was excavated from Central Russia (thanks to Mr. Kutuzov) and generously provided for a photo session by its owner Mr. Mansour:

 

It also inspired this sequence of strcat: Analog -> Anatrace -> Analyzer -> Tracelyzer -> Loglyzer.

… enough tracing. It’s time to close our session:

… what is left? If you are curious, look at this conceptual picture:

Component Trace

If you wonder what electricity has to do with tracing (at a metaphorical level) look at this trace analysis pattern:

Statement Density and Current

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

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