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Comments in italics are mine and express my own views, thoughts and opinions

Developer’s Guide to Debugging by M. Wloka, et al.:

VTune profiling (pp. 82 - 83) - there are also Visual Studio profiler http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc337887.aspx, Visual Studio Team System profiling tools and Windows kernel profiler kernrate

TBB, OpenMP, MPI and Google MapReduce (p. 87) - I have a book about Intel TBB *Threading Building Blocks”, should read or browse it soon

Mimic the scheduling (p. 90) - One technique I found useful is when you suspect two separate racing functions we can patch function prolog with a return to see if the problem is gone

Using log file to localize race conditions (p. 91 - 93) - In Citrix we use CDF tracing based on ETW (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa468736.aspx) as application-, service- and system-wide logging mechanism. It records TID and PID for every trace statement. All debug statements are actually written in a production environment if we choose to record certain or all categories of them:
http://support.citrix.com/article/ctx117426

stderr should be unbuffered (p. 91)

debugger tracepoints (p. 93) - stop, record data, resume - similar techniques exist in WinDbg/CDB/KD family of debuggers

Advanced Windows Debugging by M. Hewardt and D. Pravat:

Concurrent Programming on Windows by J. Duffy:

Software Factories by J. Greenfield, et. al.:

Software Engineering Foundations: A Software Science Perspective, by Y. Wang:

Didn’t have time today to read these 3 books because of the work on my next book ”Windows Debugging: Practical Foundations”

- Dmitry Vostokov @ SoftwareGeneralist.com -

           

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