Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 5 (Paperback)

Five volumes of cross-disciplinary Anthology (dubbed by the author "The Summa Memorianica") lay the foundation of the scientific discipline of Memoretics (study of computer memory snapshots and their evolution in time) that is also called Memory Dump and Software Trace Analysis. The 5th volume contains revised, edited, cross-referenced, and thematically organized selected DumpAnalysis.org blog posts about crash dump, software trace analysis and debugging written in February 2010 - October 2010 for software engineers developing and maintaining products on Windows platforms, quality assurance engineers testing software on Windows platforms, technical support and escalation engineers dealing with complex software issues, and security researchers, malware analysts and reverse engineers. The fifth volume features: - 25 new crash dump analysis patterns - 11 new pattern interaction case studies (including software tracing) - 16 new trace analysis patterns - 7 structural memory patterns - 4 modeling case studies for memory dump analysis patterns - Discussion of 3 common analysis mistakes - Malware analysis case study - Computer independent architecture of crash analysis report service - Expanded coverage of software narratology - Metaphysical and theological implications of memory dump worldview - More pictures of memory space and physicalist art - Classification of memory visualization tools - Memory visualization case studies - Close reading of the stories of Sherlock Holmes: Dr. Watson's observational patterns - Fully cross-referenced with Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, and Volume 4