Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 6

Contains revised, edited, cross-referenced, and thematically organized selected DumpAnalysis.org blog posts about memory dump and software trace analysis, software troubleshooting and debugging written in November 2010 - October 2011 for software engineers developing and maintaining products on Windows platforms, quality assurance engineers testing software on Windows platforms, technical support and escalation engineers dealing with complex software issues, and security researchers, malware analysts and reverse engineers. The sixth volume features:

- 56 new crash dump analysis patterns, including 14 new .NET memory dump analysis patterns

- 4 new pattern interaction case studies

- 11 new trace analysis patterns

- New Debugware pattern

- Introduction to UI problem analysis patterns

- Introduction to intelligence analysis patterns

- Introduction to unified debugging pattern language

- Introduction to generative debugging, metadefect template library, and DNA of software behavior

- The new school of debugging

- .NET memory dump analysis checklist

- Software trace analysis checklist

- Introduction to close and deconstructive readings of a software trace

- Memory dump analysis compass

- Computical and Stack Trace Art

- The abductive reasoning of Philip Marlowe

- Orbifold memory space and cloud computing

- Memory worldview

- Interpretation of cyberspace

- Relationship of memory dumps to religion

- Fully cross-referenced with Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, Volume 4, and Volume 5

The primary audience for Memory Dump Analysis Anthology reference volumes is: software engineers developing and maintaining products on Windows platforms, technical support, escalation, and site reliability engineers dealing with complex software issues, quality assurance engineers testing software on Windows platforms, security and vulnerability researchers, reverse engineers, malware and memory forensics analysts. Trace and log analysis articles may interest users of other platforms.

Dmitry Vostokov is an internationally recognized expert, speaker, educator, scientist, inventor, and author. He founded the pattern-oriented software diagnostics, forensics, and prognostics discipline (Systematic Software Diagnostics) and Software Diagnostics Institute. Vostokov has also authored over 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 over 30 years of experience in software architecture, design, development, and maintenance in various industries, including leadership, technical, and people management roles. Dmitry founded OpenTask Iterative and Incremental Publishing and Software Diagnostics Technology and Services (former Memory Dump Analysis Services). In his spare time, he explores Software Narratology and Quantum Software Diagnostics. His interest areas are theoretical software diagnostics and its mathematical and computer science foundations, application of formal logic, semiotics, 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 functional programming, cloud native computing, monitoring, observability, visualization, security, automation, applications of category theory to software diagnostics, development and big data, and diagnostics of artificial intelligence.