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About the Book

This reference volume consists of revised, edited, cross-referenced, and thematically organized articles from Software Diagnostics Institute and Software Diagnostics Library (former Crash Dump Analysis blog) about software diagnostics, debugging, crash dump analysis, software trace and log analysis, malware analysis and memory forensics written in November 2011 - May 2014.

Compared to the sixth volume, the seventh volume features:

• 66 new crash dump analysis patterns
• 46 new software log and trace analysis patterns
• 18 core memory dump analysis patterns for Mac OS X and GDB
• 10 malware analysis patterns
• Additional unified debugging pattern
• Additional user interface problem analysis pattern
• Additional pattern classification, including memory and log acquisition patterns
• Additional .NET memory analysis patterns
• Introduction to software problem description patterns
• Introduction to software diagnostics patterns
• Introduction to general abnormal structure and behavior patterns
• Introduction to software disruption patterns
• Introduction to static code analysis patterns
• Introduction to network trace analysis patterns
• Introduction to software diagnostics report schemes
• Introduction to elementary software diagnostics patterns
• Introduction to patterns of software diagnostics architecture
• Introduction to patterns of disassembly, reconstruction, and reversing
• Introduction to vulnerability analysis patterns
• Fully cross-referenced with Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, Volume 4, Volume 5, and Volume 6

The primary audience for Memory Dump Analysis Anthology reference volumes (Diagnomicon) is software engineers developing and maintaining products on Windows (WinDbg) and Mac OS X (GDB) platforms, technical support, escalation, and site reliability engineers dealing with complex software issues, quality assurance engineers testing software, security and vulnerability researchers, reverse engineers, malware and memory forensics analysts.

About the Author

Dmitry Vostokov

@DumpAnalysis

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, 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, applications of category theory to software diagnostics, development and big data, and diagnostics of artificial intelligence.