Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 8a

This reference volume consists of revised, edited, cross-referenced, and thematically organized articles from Software Diagnostics Institute (DumpAnalysis.org) and Software Diagnostics Library (former Crash Dump Analysis blog, DumpAnalysis.org/blog) about software diagnostics, debugging, crash dump analysis, memory forensics, software trace and log analysis written in June 2014 - November 2014 for software engineers developing and maintaining products on Windows platforms, quality assurance engineers testing software, technical support and escalation engineers dealing with complex software issues, security researchers, reverse engineers, malware and memory forensics analysts. This volume is fully cross-referenced with volumes 1 - 7 and features: - 19 new crash dump analysis patterns; - 10 new software log and trace analysis patterns; - Introduction to malnarratives and higher-order pattern narratives; - Introduction to pattern language for performance analysis; - Introduction to pattern-oriented debugging process.