Archive for the ‘Metadefect Template Library’ Category
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
Forthcoming Accelerated Software Trace Analysis training requires extensive real life like software logs with multiple software behaviour patterns. The similar accelerated memory dump analysis trainings (unmanaged / native Windows and .NET) also required good memory dumps but this problem was solved by modeling patterns of abnormal software behaviour in an appropriate implementation language such as C++ and C#. Modeling software traces with hundreds of software components, processes and threads would require enormous programming efforts. Therefore, the natural approach is to describe a desired software trace in some declarative language (or minimally imperative) and get a million line software log that models a specific combination of trace analysis patterns. So, welcome to such a language called Narralog: Software Narrative Log or Narrative Logic. Please note that this language is different from Riemann programming language which is a language to describe software problems and generate software problem solving tools. Language details and whether a kind of a Metadefect Template Library will be used to implement Narralog or simple macroprogramming is suffice will be decided and announced when we further develop our training.
- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org + TraceAnalysis.org -
Posted in Metadefect Template Library, Narralog Programming Language, Riemann Programming Language, SPDL, Software Behavior DNA, Software Behavior Patterns, Software Behavioral Genome, Software Defect Construction, Software Engineering, Software Narrative Fiction, Software Narratology, Software Problem Solving, Software Trace Analysis, Software Trace Modeling, Software and Modeling, Trace Analysis Patterns | No Comments »
Thursday, November 3rd, 2011
The new 6th volume contains revised, edited, cross-referenced, and thematically organized selected DumpAnalysis.org blog posts about memory dump and software trace analysis, software troubleshooting and debugging written in November 2010 - October 2011 for software engineers developing and maintaining products on Windows platforms, quality assurance engineers testing software on Windows platforms, technical support and escalation engineers dealing with complex software issues, and security researchers, malware analysts and reverse engineers. The sixth volume features:
- 56 new crash dump analysis patterns including 14 new .NET memory dump analysis patterns
- 4 new pattern interaction case studies
- 11 new trace analysis patterns
- New Debugware pattern
- Introduction to UI problem analysis patterns
- Introduction to intelligence analysis patterns
- Introduction to unified debugging pattern language
- Introduction to generative debugging, metadefect template library and DNA of software behaviour
- The new school of debugging and trends
- .NET memory dump analysis checklist
- Software trace analysis checklist
- Introduction to close and deconstructive readings of a software trace
- Memory dump analysis compass
- Computical and Stack Trace Art
- The abductive reasoning of Philip Marlowe
- Orbifold memory space and cloud computing
- Memory worldview
- Interpretation of cyberspace
- Relationship of memory dumps to religion
- Fully cross-referenced with Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, Volume 4, and Volume 5
Product information:
- Title: Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 6
- Author: Dmitry Vostokov
- Language: English
- Product Dimensions: 22.86 x 15.24
- Paperback: 300 pages
- Publisher: Opentask (December 2011)
- ISBN-13: 978-1-908043-19-1
- Hardcover: 300 pages
- Publisher: Opentask (January 2012)
- ISBN-13: 978-1-908043-20-7
Back cover features 3d memory space visualization image created with ParaView.
- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org + TraceAnalysis.org -
Posted in .NET Debugging, Announcements, Art, Books, Cloud Computing, Cloud Memory Dump Analysis, Common Mistakes, Complete Memory Dump Analysis, Computer Science, Computicart (Computical Art), Crash Dump Analysis, Crash Dump Patterns, Cyber Intelligence, Cyber Problems, Cyber Security, Cyber Space, Cyber Warfare, DebugWare Patterns, Debugging, Debugging Industry, Debugging Methodology, Debugging Slang, Debugging Trends, Escalation Engineering, Generative Debugging, Intelligence Analysis Patterns, Kernel Development, Memoidealism, Memoretics, Memory Visualization, Metadefect Template Library, New Debugging School, Philosophy, Physicalist Art, Publishing, Root Cause Analysis, Science of Memory Dump Analysis, Science of Software Tracing, Security, Software Behavior DNA, Software Behavior Patterns, Software Behavioral Genome, Software Engineering, Software Narratology, Software Technical Support, Software Trace Analysis, Software Trace Deconstruction, Software Trace Reading, Software Victimology, Testing, The Way of Philip Marlowe, Tools, Trace Analysis Patterns, Training and Seminars, Troubleshooting Methodology, UI Problem Analysis Patterns, Unified Debugging Patterns, Victimware, WinDbg Tips and Tricks, Windows 7, Windows Azure, Windows Data Structures, Windows Server 2008, Windows System Administration, x64 Windows | No Comments »
Wednesday, September 21st, 2011
Memoretics promotes pattern-driven memory dump and software trace analysis which has many uses but not limited to:
- Software and site reliability
- Software Debugging
- QA and Software Testing
- Computer Security
- Software Troubleshooting
- Malware Research and Analysis
- Tools as a Service (TaaS)
- Supportability
- Software Diagnostics
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Posted in Cloud Memory Dump Analysis, Computer Forensics, Crash Dump Analysis, Crash Dump Patterns, DebugWare Patterns, Debugging, Debugging Trends, Escalation Engineering, Malware Analysis, Malware Patterns, Memiotics (Memory Semiotics), Memoretics, Memory Analysis Forensics and Intelligence, Metadefect Template Library, Metamalware, Pattern Models, Pattern Prediction, Reverse Engineering, Root Cause Analysis, Science of Memory Dump Analysis, Science of Software Tracing, Security, Software Behavior DNA, Software Behavior Patterns, Software Behavioral Genome, Software Defect Construction, Software Engineering, Software Generalist, Software Narratology, Software Support Patterns, Software Technical Support, Software Trace Analysis, Software Troubleshooting Patterns, Structural Memory Patterns, Structural Trace Patterns, Systems Thinking, Testing, Tools, Trace Analysis Patterns, Troubleshooting Methodology, UI Problem Analysis Patterns, Unified Debugging Patterns, Victimware, Windows System Administration, Workaround Patterns | No Comments »
Wednesday, September 21st, 2011
Memoretics as a science of memory snapshots borrows many ideas from the following disciplines (the list is not exhaustive):
- Troubleshooting and Debugging
- Intelligence Analysis
- Critical Thinking
- Forensics
- Linguistics
- Archaeology
- Psychoanalysis
- History
- Mathematics: Sets and Categories
- Literary Criticism and Narratology
It also contributes many ideas back. The following diagram depicts such an interaction:
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Posted in Archaeology of Computer Memory, Categorical Debugging, Computer Forensics, Computer Science, Countefactual Debugging, Crash Dump Analysis, Crash Dump De-analysis, Crash Dump Patterns, Debugging, Debugging Methodology, Dublin School of Security, Education and Research, Escalation Engineering, General Memory Analysis, Generative Debugging, Hermeneutics of Memory Dumps and Traces, History, Intelligence Analysis Patterns, M->analysis, Malware Analysis, Malware Patterns, Mathematics of Debugging, Memiotics (Memory Semiotics), Memoretics, Memory Analysis Forensics and Intelligence, Memory Dump Analysis and History, Memory Systems Language, Memory Visualization, Metadefect Template Library, Metamalware, New Debugging School, Paleo-debugging, Pattern Models, Pattern Prediction, Psychoanalysis of Software Maintenance and Support, Psychology, Reverse Engineering, Root Cause Analysis, Science of Memory Dump Analysis, Science of Software Tracing, Security, Software Architecture, Software Behavior DNA, Software Behavior Patterns, Software Behavioral Genome, Software Chorography, Software Chorology, Software Defect Construction, Software Engineering, Software Narratology, Software Technical Support, Software Trace Analysis, Software Trace Analysis and History, Software Trace Deconstruction, Software Trace Linguistics, Software Trace Reading, Software Trace Visualization, Software Tracing Implementation Patterns, Software Troubleshooting Patterns, Software Victimology, Software and History, Structural Memory Analysis and Social Sciences, Structural Memory Patterns, Structural Trace Patterns, Systems Thinking, Testing, Tools, Trace Analysis Patterns, Troubleshooting Methodology, UI Problem Analysis Patterns, Unified Debugging Patterns, Victimware, Virtualization, Visual Dump Analysis, Workaround Patterns | No Comments »
Sunday, May 1st, 2011
To model software behavior at application and system levels, test generative debugging scenarious and construct software defects using metaprogramming I started working on MdTL (Metadefect Template Library). Its consists of C++ templates for structural and behavioral patterns. The simplest examples include Threads<Spike> and Spike<Thread>. The template classes can be more complex, of course, utilizing the full power of C++, STL, and existing libraries like Boost. The unique and novel feature of this library is the inclusion of dual classes of behaviour such as Leak<>, Deadlock<>, Overflow<>, Residue<>, Exception<>, Contention<>, etc. parameterized by various structural memory classes like Process<>, Thread<>, Heap<>, Stack<>, Region<>, Buffer<>, etc. MdTL also includes classes to model software tracing and this will be used for simultaneous software trace and memory dump analysis case study in the forthcoming presentation. I also plan to extend this metaprogramming approach in the future to model malware analysis patterns by introducing Metamalware Template Library (MmTL).
Forthcoming parts will introduce template classes and examples.
- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org + TraceAnalysis.org -
Posted in C and C++, Crash Dump Patterns, Debugging, Generative Debugging, Malware Analysis, Malware Patterns, Metadefect Template Library, Metamalware, New Acronyms, Software Behavior Patterns, Software Defect Construction, Structural Memory Patterns, Structural Trace Patterns, Tools, Trace Analysis Patterns, Victimware | No Comments »