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June 2008 - Posts

Free Security Book: HAC

The Handbook of Applied Cryptography is being offered for free download (for personal use of course) from the University of Waterloo. This book covers a good swath of topics and will be a useful addition to your digital library. And to give you a taste, Read More...
Posted Monday, June 30, 2008 8:17 AM by joshpoley | 1 Comments
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Know Thine Product's Language

As a technical tester (SDET), you are expected to help find bugs that are written in the programming language used by your product team (SDETs commonly contribute by writing test code and tools). To this end, you truly need to understand and master that Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 25, 2008 8:36 AM by joshpoley | 1 Comments
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Automating Crash Dump Analysis: Some Final Thoughts

For a reference, here are some links to the previous parts in this series: · Prolific Usage of MiniDumpWriteDump · Opening a Crash Dump File · Getting the Stack from a .DMP File · Getting the Crash Details from a .DMP File · Showing the Disassembly from Read More...
Posted Monday, June 23, 2008 9:04 AM by joshpoley | 0 Comments
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Showing the Disassembly from a .DMP File (Automating Crash Dump Analysis Part 4)

When investigating a crash, it can often be beneficial to see the assembly leading up too, and even following the event. It turns out that generating the corresponding assembly at an address is pretty easy. The hard part is finding a good starting point Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 17, 2008 1:31 PM by joshpoley | 1 Comments
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Xbox Jobs: Developers in Test

Are you looking for a job that you can actually enjoy ? Are you looking to work with a team of brilliant and passionate individuals? Then come and check out Xbox. There are a handful of SDET jobs currently open on the Xbox 360 system software team (the Read More...
Posted Friday, June 06, 2008 10:51 AM by joshpoley | 2 Comments
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Getting the Crash Details from a .DMP File (Automating Crash Dump Analysis Part 3)

Aside from a stack trace (the "where"), you probably want to know something about the crash (the "why" or the "how"). With the code below, we can query some of the basic details about what happened. From this we will at least be able to determine if the Read More...
Posted Friday, June 06, 2008 10:48 AM by joshpoley | 1 Comments
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Getting the Stack from a .DMP File (Automating Crash Dump Analysis Part 2)

So now that we have a memory dump file , and know how to open it , we will want to pull some useful data out. To start with, we will grab the stack trace (which is arguably one of the more important pieces). And in case you've stumbled across the "dumpstk" Read More...
Posted Monday, June 02, 2008 8:06 AM by joshpoley | 2 Comments
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