Software has bugs. Period. That's true, unfortunately. Even the good
old "hello, world" program, known to virtually every C and C++
programmer in the world, can be considered to be buggy. Developing
software means having to deal with defects; old ones, new ones, ones
you created yourself, and those that others brought to life. Software
developers debug programs for a living. Hence, good debugging skills
are a must-have. That said, it is regrettable that debugging is
hardly taught in engineering schools. That's how the idea for this
book was born. The Developer's Guide to Debugging is a book for both
professional software developers seeking to broaden their skills and
students that want to learn the tricks of the trade from the ground
up. With small examples and exercises it is well suited to accompany
a CS course or lecture. At the same time it can be used as a
reference guide to address problems as the need arises. This book
goes beyond the level of simple source code debugging scenarios. In
addition, it covers the most frequent real-world problems from the
areas of program linking, memory access, parallel processing and
performance analysis. The picture is completed by chapters covering
static checkers and techniques to write code that leans well towards
debugging. While the focus lies on C and C++, the workhorses of the
software industry, one can apply many techniques described in The
Developer's Guide to Debugging to programs written in other
languages.
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