91% of software developers admit to having defects which remain unresolved because they cannot reproduce the issue. [ See analyst research report] Slowed down by a growing backlog of test failures? CI/CD and test automation help with delivering quality software at speed, but they bring with them a growing backlog of failing tests. …

Time travel debugging offers a number of ways to rapidly analyze and diagnose bugs, even in unfamiliar code. Using the worked analysis of an SQLite issue, we can see how these techniques function in a real-world application. Firstly, a little background: for anyone who doesn’t know, “SQLite is a C-language…

Debugging is central to programming. You cannot be a good programmer without being good at debugging and vice-versa. And I would also say you cannot be good at debugging without taking advantage of the tools at your disposal. …

If a program overwrites its own program counter register, it is almost impossible to recover using a conventional debugger — without the program counter, the debugger cannot figure out which function the program was running, and so cannot even give any useful information about what is on the stack or…

What do we know about debugging? Most of us know it’s painful, stressful and takes up too much of our time when we just want to build things. We also know it is becoming increasingly harder for developers to debug software due to complex orchestrations and architectures that make understanding…

Last time we looked at user-defined commands in the GDB command-line. In this GDB tutorial, we look at writing our user-defined functions in Python. The advantage of creating user-defined commands in Python is that you…

Developers can now use LiveRecorder to record, replay and reverse-debug Java applications seamlessly in IntelliJ IDEA. — Today we are excited to share the launch of LiveRecorder for Java with you! LiveRecorder for Java is a transformational set of developer productivity tools, that enable Java developers to resolve bugs much faster than before. …

In this GDB tutorial, we’re going to look at user-defined commands. There are various reasons you might want to work with user-defined commands; but one of the most prominent is that we want to be productive. …

The explosion of Agile development and DevOps practices has resulted in more frequent testing to enable faster and continuous delivery of software applications. That’s the theory anyway. A study carried out recently by a Cambridge Judge Business School MBA project reveals that while the adoption of continuous integration is on…