If I Only Changed the Software, Why is the Phone on Fire?: Embedded Debugging Methods Revealed
Technical Mysteries for Engineers

CSI for software engineers!

Lisa K. Simone (Author)

9780750682183, Elsevier Science

Paperback, published 1 June 2007

304 pages, Illustrated
23.4 x 19 x 2 cm, 0.62 kg

"Great title and a good read too, especially if you like stories from the trenches. Simone does more than just revive old ghosts. She brings out the debugging techniques in context." --William Wong, Electronic Design

If I Only Changed the Software, Why is the Phone on Fire?: Embedded Debugging Methods Revealed manages the unthinkable- it conveys crucial technical information to engineers without boring them to tears! In this unique reference, expert embedded designer Lisa Simone provides the solutions to typical embedded software debugging problems from a fresh new perspective. She introduces a team of engineers who readers will recognize from their own workplaces, and then confronts them with real-world debugging scenarios of progressive complexity, drawing the reader into the “mysteries? with their new fictional colleagues, and guiding them step-by-step toward successful solutions.

1: The Case of the Irate Customer: Debugging Other People's Code, Fast2: The Newest Employee: Learning the Embedded Ropes Through Code Inheritance 3: It Compiles with No Errors
It Must Work! Integrating Changes in a Larger System 4: The Case of Thermal Runaway: Rare Transient Bugs are Still Bugs 5: The Case of the Creeping Slider Carriage and the Case of the Hesitating Clock: Alternate Methods of Understanding System Performance 6: If I Only Changed the Software, Why is the Phone on Fire? 7: The Case of the Rapid Heartbeat: Meeting the Spirit of the Requirement 8: What Kind of Error Message is "lume Fault"? When all of the Symptoms Seem Impossible9: When It's Not Hardware, It's Software. And Vice Versa. Blurring the Interface. 10: Li Mei’s List of Debugging Secrets

Subject Areas: Software Engineering [UMZ], Microprocessors [TJFD1], Electrical engineering [THR]