Power Tools for Debugging

Published March 15th, 2010 Under Software Testing | Leave a Comment

Learn about DebugAdvisor, a search based tool to find related bugs, and other related information such as people and files, Holmes, a statistical debugger based on coverage data that can be used to root-cause a bug by narrowing down the code path that results in the error, and Darwin a symbolic execution-based tool to root cause regressions.


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How Do I Create a Breakpoint Using Conditions?

Published February 16th, 2010 Under Software Testing | Leave a Comment

There are many ways to create breakpoints. By default, a breakpoint is triggered each time a line of code is reached. This video demonstrates how to use advanced breakpoints to only trigger when certain conditions are met.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/vstudio/dd442440.aspx

Become a Web Debugging Virtuoso with Fiddler

Published February 3rd, 2010 Under Unit Testing | Leave a Comment

Learn how teams around Microsoft and ISVs around the world use the Fiddler web debugging tool to find bugs, troubleshoot performance problems, and uncover security vulnerabilities in both client and server code. Explore the best add-ons for Fiddler, and build your own functionality using JavaScript and .NET languages. Examine how new features in Internet Explorer 8, like Accelerators and Visual Search suggestions, utilize the network. Learn actionable best practices for building faster websites


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Java #N2 – Using the NetBeans Debugger

Published January 5th, 2010 Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

An introduction to using the NetBeans debugger

Learn Tips and Tricks for Debugging in Visual Studio

Published December 28th, 2009 Under Software Testing | Leave a Comment

In a debugging session, it is possible to view and explore the values of elements. It is also possible to modify those values in an effort to determine how a new value affects the outcome. In this video, Todd Miranda demonstrates how to use watch and immediate windows to test various scenarios while debugging.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/vstudio/dd442479.aspx

Debugging Arts of the Ninja Masters

Published December 21st, 2009 Under Unit Testing | Leave a Comment

Ever have one of those days where your application just doesn’t run correctly, and you can’t figure out why? Well, we’ve been there, and we’re going to show you how to fix it. In this session, Justin Mattson will school you on the advanced usage of Android debugging tools like traceview, the hierarchy viewer, and the instrumentation system. He’ll also present several case studies where Google used these tools to solve real world problems, and show you the before-and-after results.

Advanced .NET Debugging

Published October 28th, 2009 Under Software Testing | Leave a Comment

Visual Studio is a good interactive debugger but it isn’t much use for debugging production problems like memory leaks. This video presents other tools like SOS and WinDBG to track down hard-to-fix errors during development as well as post-production.

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