Software Exorcism: A Handbook for Debugging and Optimizing Legacy Code

✍ Scribed by Bill Blunden (auth.)

• Publisher: Apress
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 368
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

YOU HAVE TO OWN THIS BOOK! Software Exorcism: A Handbook for Debugging and Optimizing Legacy Code takes an unflinching, no bulls$&# look at behavioral problems in the software engineering industry, shedding much-needed light on the social forces that make it difficult for programmers to do their job. Do you have a co-worker who perpetually writes bad code that you are forced to clean up? This is your book. While there are plenty of books on the market that cover debugging and short-term workarounds for bad code, Reverend Bill Blunden takes a revolutionary step beyond them by bringing our attention to the underlying illnesses that plague the software industry as a whole.

Further, Software Exorcism discusses tools and techniques for effective and aggressive debugging, gives optimization strategies that appeal to all levels of programmers, and presents in-depth treatments of technical issues with honest assessments that are not biased toward proprietary solutions.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiii
Preventative Medicine....Pages 1-69
Debugging Tactics....Pages 71-112
Understand the Problem....Pages 113-156
Debugger Internals....Pages 157-213
Optimization: Memory Footprint....Pages 215-261
Optimization: CPU Cycles....Pages 263-320
Final Words of Advice....Pages 321-329
Back Matter....Pages 331-351

✦ Subjects

Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems