The Debugging Book

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While the chapters of this book can be read one after the other, there are many possible paths through the book. In this graph, an arrow A → B means that chapter A is a prerequisite for chapter B. You can pick arbitrary paths in this graph to get to the topics that interest you most:

Tracer Tracing Executions Debugger How Debuggers Work Tracer->Debugger Assertions Asserting Expectations Tracer->Assertions DeltaDebugger Reducing Failure- Inducing Inputs Tracer->DeltaDebugger StatisticalDebugger Statistical Debugging Tracer->StatisticalDebugger DynamicInvariants Mining Function Specifications Tracer->DynamicInvariants ChangeDebugger Isolating Failure- Inducing Changes DeltaDebugger->ChangeDebugger DDSetDebugger Generalizing Failure Circumstances DeltaDebugger->DDSetDebugger PerformanceDebugger Debugging Performance Issues DeltaDebugger->PerformanceDebugger Repairer Repairing Code Automatically DeltaDebugger->Repairer StatisticalDebugger->PerformanceDebugger StatisticalDebugger->Repairer Intro_Debugging Introduction to Debugging Intro_Debugging->Tracer Slicer Tracking Failure Origins Intro_Debugging->Slicer Tracking Tracking Bugs Intro_Debugging->Tracking ChangeCounter Where the Bugs are Tracking->ChangeCounter

Table of Contents

Part I: Whetting Your Appetite

Part II: Observing Executions

Part III: Flows and Dependencies

Part IV: Reducing Failure Causes

Part V: Abstracting Failures

Part VI: Automatic Repair

Part VII: Debugging in the Large

Appendices

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