<p style="margin:0px">Every software developer understands the crucial importance of effective debugging. Often, debugging consumes most of a developer's workday, and mastering the required techniques and skills can take a lifetime. In<b>Effective Debugging</b>, Diomidis Spinellis helps you accelerate your journey to mastery, by systematically categorizing, explaining, and illustrating scores of today's best methods, strategies, techniques, and tools.</p><p style="margin:0px">&nbsp;</p><p style="margin:0px">Drawing on 25&#43; years of experience, Spinellis helps you expand the arsenal of techniques you're comfortable with, and choose the approaches that work best for each challenge. He presents vendor-neutral, example-rich coverage of general principles, high level strategies, concrete techniques, high-efficiency tools, creative tricks, and the behavioral traits associated with effective debugging. His 52 step-by-step techniques address every facet of debugging, including:</p><ul><li><div style="margin:0px">Building an effective debugging environment</div></li><li><div style="margin:0px">Tracking issues and reproducing problems</div></li><li><div style="margin:0px">Using online resources</div></li><li><div style="margin:0px">Stepping through code, adding breakpoints, and using call stacks</div></li><li><div style="margin:0px">Optimizing and automating debugging workflows</div></li><li><div style="margin:0px">Collaborating with others on debugging</div></li><li><div style="margin:0px">Debugging at compile time and run time</div></li><li><div style="margin:0px">Simplifying, rewriting, and improving code to avoid bugs</div></li><li><div style="margin:0px">Using debug mode</div></li><li><div style="margin:0px">Varying execution environments</div></li><li><div style="margin:0px">Working with command line tools</div></li><li><div style="margin:0px">Making the most of revision control and logs</div></li><li><div style="margin:0px">Debugging multithreaded, asynchronous, and embedded device code</div></li><li><div style="margin:0px">And much more</div></li></ul>