Why Programs Fail: A Guide to Systematic Debugging, 2nd edition

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: How Failures Come To Be
Chapter 2: Tracking Problems
Chapter 3: Making Programs Fail
Chapter 4: Reproducing Problems
Chapter 5: Symplifying Problems (See next page for excerpt.)
Chapter 6: Scientific Debugging
Chapter 7: Deducing Errors
Chapter 8: Observing Facts
Chapter 9: Tracking Origins
Chapter 10: Asserting Expectations
Chapter 11: Detecting Anomalies
Chapter 12: Causes and Effects
Chapter 13: Isolating Failure Causes
Chapter 14: Isolating Cause-Effect Chains
Chapter 15: Fixing the Defect
Chapter 16: Learning from Mistakes
Appendix: Formal Definitions