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Debugging : the nine indispensable rules for finding even the most elusive software and hardware problems /

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Agans, David J., 1954-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : AMACOM, ©2002.
©2002
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo (Requiere registro previo con correo institucional)
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1: Introduction
  • How Can That Work?
  • Isn't It Obvious?
  • Anyone Can Use It
  • It'll Debug Anything
  • But It Won't Prevent, Certify, or Triage Anything
  • More Than Just Troubleshooting
  • A Word About War Stories
  • Stay Tuned
  • Chapter 2: The Rules-Suitable for Framing
  • Chapter 3: Understand the System
  • Read the Manual
  • Read Everything, Cover to Cover
  • Know What's Reasonable
  • Know the Road Map
  • Know Your Tools
  • Look It Up
  • Remember
  • Understand the System
  • Chapter 4: Make It Fail
  • Do It Again
  • Add Instrumentation On
  • Instrumentation in Daily Life
  • The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
  • Guess Only to Focus the Search
  • Remember
  • Quit Thinking and Look
  • Chapter 6: Divide and Conquer
  • Narrow the Search
  • In the Ballpark
  • Which Side Are You On?
  • Inject Easy-to-Spot Patterns
  • Start with the Bad
  • Fix the Bugs You Know About
  • Fix the Noise First
  • Remember
  • Divide and Conquer
  • Chapter 7: Change One Thing at a Time
  • Use a Rifle, Not a Shotgun
  • Grab the Brass Bar with Both Hands
  • Change One Test at a Time
  • Compare with a Good One
  • Ask an Expert
  • The Voice of Experience
  • Where to Get Help
  • Don't Be Proud
  • Report Symptoms, Not Theories
  • You Don't Have to Be Sure
  • Remember
  • Get a Fresh View
  • Chapter 11: If You Didn't Fix It, It Ain't Fixed
  • Check That It's Really Fixed
  • Check That It's Really Your Fix That Fixed It
  • It Never Just Goes Away by Itself
  • Fix the Cause
  • Fix the Process
  • Remember
  • If You Didn't Fix It, It Ain't Fixed
  • Chapter 12: All the Rules in One Story
  • Chapter 13: Easy Exercises for the Reader
  • A Light Vacuuming Job
  • A Flock of Bugs
  • A Loose Restriction
  • The Jig Is Up
  • Start at the Beginning
  • Stimulate the Failure
  • Don't Simulate the Failure
  • What If It's Intermittent?
  • What if I've Tried Everything and It's Still Intermittent?
  • A Hard Look at Bad Luck
  • Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics
  • Did You Fix It, or Did You Get Lucky?
  • "But That Can't Happen"
  • Never Throw Away a Debugging Tool
  • Remember
  • Make It Fail
  • Chapter 5: Quit Thinking and Look
  • See the Failure
  • See the Details
  • Now You See It, Now You Don't
  • Instrument the System
  • Design Instrumentation In
  • Build Instrumentation In Later
  • Don't Be Afraid to Dive In
  • What Did You Change Since the Last Time It Worked?
  • Remember
  • Change One Thing at a Time
  • Chapter 8: Keep an Audit Trail
  • Write Down What You Did, in What Order, and What Happened 99
  • The Devil Is in the Details
  • Correlate
  • Audit Trails for Design Are Also Good for Testing
  • The Shortest Pencil Is Longer Than the Longest Memory
  • Remember
  • Keep an Audit Trail
  • Chapter 9: Check the Plug
  • Question Your Assumptions
  • Don't Start at Square Three
  • Test the Tool
  • Remember
  • Check the Plug
  • Chapter 10: Get a Fresh View
  • Ask for Help
  • A Breath of Fresh Insight