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 August 2020 - 14 August 2021 for software engineers developing and maintaining products on Windows and Linux platforms, quality assurance engineers testing software, technical support, escalation and site reliability engineers dealing with complex software issues, security and vulnerability researchers, reverse engineers, malware and memory forensics analysts. This volume is fully cross-referenced with volumes 1 - 13 and features:
- 7 new crash dump analysis patterns with selected downloadable example memory dumps;
- New crash dump analysis case study not previously published anywhere;
- 14 new software trace and log analysis patterns;
- Introduction to cloud analysis patterns;
- Introduction to the fractal nature of software traces and logs;
- Introduction to the general architecture of analysis pattern networks;
- Lists of recommended books.