Slides from my talk at Day of .Net in Ann Arbor in 2008

1. Beyond Breakpoints David Truxall, Ph.D. Debugging and Troubleshooting Principal Consultant

2. Production application with a problem

3. Finding bugs is difficult and costly

4. Tools and Techniques Find and Prevent Bugs

5. Prevent bugs with good process

6. Recognize the source of bugs

7. What is a bug? Crashes Freezes/Hangs Poor Performance Incorrect Results Security Holes Inconsistent UI

9. Know the tools

10. Testing

13. Continuous Integration

15. Profiling

19. Learn the features

20. Breakpoints

21. Watches

23. Assertions Debug.Assert(predicate) Trace.Assert(predicate)

25. Symbols

26. Code Examination

27. FxCop

28. Poor performance == Obvious File System Access Encryption

29. Use WinDBG to find the hard bugs

30. Set up and configure

31. SOS.dll

32. Symbols

33. ADPlus

35. Find the Bugs!