Debugging

Table of Contents

• General
• Scientific Method
• XCode
• Debugging C
• Debugging D
• Debugging Python
• Debugging Clojure
• Debugging Rust
• Debugging Fortran
• Debugging Go
  • Debugging Erlang & Elixir
    • Tracing
    • Observer
    • Redbug
    • Recon
    • Concuerror
• Tools
  • GDB
  • DWARF
  • LLDB
  • DDD
  • RR
  • RD
  • DTrace
  • STrace
  • Pernosco

General

• Reviews of debugging books
  • 2013/02/28 Four Books on Debugging
  • 2018/01/15 Book review: On battle scars and debugging
  • 2018/02/04 Book review: From intuition to methodology in debugging
  • 2018/03/25 Book review: Formalizing debugging
  • 2018/05/07 Book review: The puzzling empathy of debugging
  • 2019/01/04 Book review: Retro debugging
• 2017/03/22 The Debugging Mindset
• 2017/05/08 Mindset For Debugging (And Why We Need It)
• 2018/03/18 Debugging Like A Boss!
• 2019/01/12 Golden debugging practices for a software developer
• 2020/02/14 The Debug Mindset
• 2020/02/16 Computers can be understood
• 2020/03/10 Youtube: Kevin Gosse — The debugging mindset
• 2020/07/21 Lobste.rs: What debugging technique did it take you entirely too long to learn?
• 2020/08/05 6 ways to improve your debugging skills
• 2020/08/17 The Debugger’s Mindset
• 2020/10/28 Extreme Debugging
• 2020/11/15 The 7 commandments of debugging
• 2020/11/15 4 Different Perspectives to Solve Problems
• 2022/05/06 You say “cave dweller debugging”, I say debug logging
• 2022/06/26 Assertions should be more debugger-oriented
• 2022/07/28 Print based debugging and infrequent developers
• 2022/08/12 Lobste.rs: Debugging notes best practices
• 2022/08/18 Reverse Debugging and other stories
• Julia Evans
  • 2016/09/07 New zine: Linux debugging tools you'll love
  • 2016/09/17 A swiss army knife of debugging tools: talk & transcript
  • 2017/12/23 Debugging a segfault in my Rust program
  • 2019/06/23 What does debugging a program look like?
  • 2022/08/30 Some ways to get better at debugging
    • HN
  • 2021/04/16 Notes on building debugging puzzles
  • 2022/12/08 A debugging manifesto
  • Linux debugging / tracing tools
  • Debugging
  • Debugging stories
  • Rbspy
• GitHub: danluu/debugging-stories: A collection of debugging stories
• Illumos Modular Debugger

Scientific Method

• 2010/07/04 How to Debug – Embedded in Academia
• 2014/07/29 Debugging And The Scientific Method
• 2014/08/11 How to Fix the Hardest Bug You've Ever Seen: The Scientific Method
• 2014/11/09 sean cassidy : Sherlock Holmes Debugging
• 2016/11/16 Debugging Software, Sherlock Holmes-style
• 2014/10/07 GoGaRuCo 2014- The Scientific Method of Troubleshooting
• 2015/02/23 Youtube: Apply the Scientific Method - Software Debugging
• 2015/11/16 Debugging with the Scientific Method - Stuart Halloway
• 2017/11/28 RubyConf 2017: Getting Unstuck: Using the Scientific Method for Debugging by Caroline Taymor
• 2020/06/16 Scientific Debugging - Debugging made easy - 15 mins definitely save your 100s of debugging hours

XCode

• 2017/06/14 Breakpoints: Debugging like a Pro

Debugging C

• Debuggers and Debugging Techniques
• 2010/06/29 A Collection of Examples of 64-bit Errors in Real Programs
• 2015/02/21 Better debug notices in C, using macros
• 2018/04/28 Debugging a segfault on linux
• 2018/04/29 Hanging the Linux core dump pipe helper
• 2018/11/13 Chaos Magick Debugging
• 2018/11/13 Comparing The Quality Of Debug Information Produced By Clang And Gcc

Debugging D

• 2020/03/13 Tracing D Applications

Debugging Python

Debugging Clojure

Debugging Rust

• 2015/03/27 rust-gdb. rust-lldb.

Debugging Fortran

Debugging Go

• The Mouse Trap: GoLang Debugging - Turning Pennies Into G'sgolang-debugging-turning-pennies-into-gs.html
• Debugging Go applications on FreeBSD – Olivier Van Ackerdebugging-go-applications-on-freebsd/?relatedposts_exclude=364
• Running the Go Race Detector with -cover
• Fixing race conditions and deadlocks in Go | Lincoln Looplesson-learned-while-debugging-botbotme/

Debugging Erlang & Elixir

• Debugging techniques in Elixir « Plataformatec Blog
• In Search of Concise Software: Quick Start: Debugging in Erlang

Tracing

Observer

Redbug

Recon

Concuerror

Tools

GDB

• 2015/10/21 Youtube: CppCon 2015: Greg Law " Give me 15 minutes & I'll change your view of GDB"
• 2018/04/19 Youtube: 9.2 - Debugging - GDB Tutorial
• 2017/04/11 Youtube: Automate repetitive debugging tasks using scripts in gdb
• How to point GDB to your sources | Alex Dzyoba
• Debugging with GDB: a real life example - (gdb) break 0x972
• Defusing a binary bomb with gdb · carlosgaldino
• Defusing a binary bomb with gdb · carlosgaldino
• ACCU 2016: become a GDB power user – Reversible Debugging Tools for C/C++ on Linux and Android
• gdb Debugging Full Example (Tutorial): ncurses
• Learning C with gdb - Blog - Recurse Center
• Write a (toy) strace and gdb - Javier Honduvilla Coto
• gdbtutorial.com

DWARF

LLDB

DDD

RR

• RR Project
• 2016/02/13 Youtube: Record and replay debugging with "rr"
• 2017/12/22 Youtube: gdbgui with rr demonstration

RD

DTrace

STrace

Pernosco