Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 10

by Dmitry Vostokov, Software Diagnostics Institute

Overview

This reference volume consists of revised, edited, cross-referenced, and thematically organized selected articles from Software Diagnostics Institute (DumpAnalysis.org + TraceAnalysis.org) and Software Diagnostics Library (former Crash Dump Analysis blog, DumpAnalysis.org/blog) about software diagnostics, root cause analysis, debugging, crash and hang dump analysis, software trace and log analysis written in October 2016 - May 2017 for software engineers developing and maintaining products on Windows platforms, quality assurance engineers testing software, technical support and escalation engineers dealing with complex software issues, security researchers, reverse engineers, malware and memory forensics analysts. This volume is fully cross-referenced with volumes 1 - 9 and features:

- 15 new crash dump analysis patterns
- New Linux core dump analysis pattern
- 18 new software trace and log analysis patterns
- Introduction to topological software trace and log analysis
- Introduction to software diagnostic spaces as general graphs of software narratives
- Software diagnostics as archaeology
- Introduction to pattern-oriented diagnostic analysis process
- Principles of pattern-oriented software data analysis
- Abstract debugging commands (ADC) initiative
- Introduction to elementary analysis patterns and reduction of analysis pattern complexity
- Introduction to categorical foundations of software diagnostics
- Introduction to existential prognostics and periodic table of diagnostic patterns
- Introduction to software codiagnostics
- Volume index of memory dump analysis patterns
- Volume index of trace and log analysis patterns

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781908043856
Publisher:	Opentask
Publication date:	05/26/2017
Series:	Memory Dump Analysis Anthology (Diagnomicon
Pages:	168
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.44(d)

About the Author

Dmitry Vostokov is an internationally recognized expert, speaker, educator, scientist, inventor, and author. He is the founder of pattern-oriented software diagnostics, forensics and prognostics discipline (Systematic Software Diagnostics), and Software Diagnostics Institute. Vostokov has also authored more than 50 books on software diagnostics, anomaly detection and analysis, software and memory forensics, root cause analysis and problem solving, memory dump analysis, debugging, software trace and log analysis, reverse engineering, and malware analysis. He has more than 25 years of experience in software architecture, design, development, and maintenance in a variety of industries including leadership, technical and people management roles. Dmitry also founded Syndromatix, Anolog.io, BriteTrace, DiaThings, Logtellect, OpenTask Iterative and Incremental Publishing, and Software Diagnostics Technology and Services (former Memory Dump Analysis Services) and Software Prognostics. In his spare time, he presents various topics on Debugging TV and explores Software Narratology, its further development as Narratology of Things and Diagnostics of Things (DoT), Software Pathology, and Quantum Software Diagnostics. His current areas of interest are theoretical software diagnostics and its mathematical and computer science foundations, application of formal logic, artificial intelligence, machine learning and data mining to diagnostics and anomaly detection, software diagnostics engineering and diagnostics-driven development, diagnostics workflow and interaction. Recent interest areas also include cloud native computing, security, automation, functional programming, and applications of category theory to software development and big data.

Table of Contents

Preface

About the Author

PART 1: Crash Dump Analysis Patterns

Quotient Stack Trace

Module Stack Trace

Foreign Module Frame

Unified Stack Trace

Mirror Dump Set

Memory Fibration

Aggregated Frames

Value Deviation (Structure Field)

Stack Trace (I/O Devices)

High Contention (.NET Heap)

Frame Regularity

Deadlock (.NET Finalizer)

Invalid Parameter (Runtime Function)

Wait Chain (SRW Lock)

Stack Trace Motif

PART 2: Linux Core Dump Analysis Pattern

Module Stack Trace

PART 3: Software Trace Analysis Patterns

Corrupt Message

Projective Space

Ornament

Poincaré Trace

De Broglie Trace Duality

Braid Group

Delay Dynamics

Activity Quantum

Trace Presheaf

Message Directory

Galois Trace

Singleton Trace

Braid of Activity

Tensor Trace

Unsynchronized Traces

Intrinsic ID

Combed Trace

Activity Packet

PART 4: Software Diagnostics, Root Cause Analysis, Troubleshooting, and Debugging

Topological Software Trace and Log Analysis

Is Your Security Healthy?

Software Diagnostic Space as a General Graph of Software Narratives

Software Diagnostics Metaphors

Software Diagnostics as Archaeology

Pattern-Oriented Diagnostic Analysis Process

Principles of Pattern-Oriented Software Data Analysis

Abstract Debugging Commands (ADC) Initiative

Reducing Analysis Pattern Complexity via Elementary Analysis Patterns

Categorical Foundations of Software Diagnostics

Existential Prognostics: Periodic Table of Diagnostic Patterns

Software Codiagnostics

The Unity of Pattern-Oriented Software Diagnostics

PART 5: A Bit of Science, Philosophy, and Religion

Quotes from Memoriarch

Notes on Memoidealism

PART 6: Fun with Debugging, Crash Dumps, and Traces

Debugging Slang

SCANDAL

WTF

UOP

HOT

HOME

anOS

theOS

TCH

Top NoTCH

Problem Solving Techniques

Dissolution

Software Temperature

Watson

Cosmic Rays in Memory

Area 51

Measuring Software Diagnostics

Cash and Crash

Debugging Law

Suggested Pool Tags

TOR

Attitude to Debugging

British vs. American Spelling

How I Became a Grandmaster

Memory Dumps and VAT

Updatician

Traces of Cyrillic Alphabet

Prolific Letter

Code and Edoc

The Three-Software Vendor Body Problem

Modem Troubleshooting and Putin

Bugs for Fireworks

Critical SnowLOB

Apotypomamnimisophobia

Schadenfreude of AI

Diagnostics and Debugging in Science Fiction

The Mozart of Diagnostics

Keyboard Problems

PART 7: Art and Photography

(t)ra(c)in(g)

Development Muses

Pattern Inside and Outside

Between Diagnostic Activities

Patched Bug Construction Kit

Russian Binary

Secret Russian Binary

Postanalysm

PART 8: Miscellaneous

Quotes

Is There Any Life Inside Windows?

The Condition of My Productivity

CyberSpace and the Solution to CyberProblems

VAX/VMS Debugging Artefact

Observing Patterns of Cloud Structure and Behavior

Appendix

Crash Dump Analysis Checklist

Volume Index

Memory Analysis Patterns

Trace and Log Analysis Patterns

Index of WinDbg Commands