Debugging Slang
LoL
LoL - Law of Large
Example: Q. How did you resolve this support case? A. By a LoL number!
Explanation: The more support incidents you get, the larger their tracking numbers become. So at some stage the law of large numbers comes into effect: there is always a similar incident in the past. Don't confuse with LOL73.
Watching a Movie
Watching a Movie - Watching the prodigious output of some debugging commands and scripts in real time.
Examples: Watching the output of !process 0 3f WinDbg command. Watching the output of user stack trace database and breaking in when it becomes uniform.
PonOS
PonOS - Earlier stages of OS development (from Ancient Greek ponos74, ordeal).
Typology, Typological
Typology - logic of typos in software. Typological - a logical typo.
Examples: A typology of defects in source code. An engineer committed a grave typological mistake.
Memorandum
Memorandum - when memory ran dump.
Example: We got a few memorandums from that market leader.
HELL
HELL – High Exception Level Language.
Example: This product was written in HELL.
FBI
FBI - Fighting Bugs Inside.
Example: I'm doing an FBI work now!
poo
poo - a function that follows foo and bar with a purpose to trigger a crash event, a breakpoint, or save memory state.
Example: void main() { foo(); } void foo() { poo(); } void poo() { asm int 3; }
STaMPs
STaMPs - Software Trace and Memory Patterns. Stack Trace and Memory Patterns.
Examples: Got a few visible stamps on this trace. And more stamps on that crash dump.
A NoSQL Problem
A NoSQL Problem - when nothing appears on a refresh.
Example: I got a NoSQL problem when I signed in to that social website.
Matrix
Matrix – Memory analysis trix (tricks).
Example: This component is Matrix-aware at runtime.
Fool
Fool - The long version of a foo program used in C and C++ tutorials.
Example: What a foolish program!
B2B, B2C, H2H
A software diagnostics view: Boot 2 Boot; Boot 2 Crash; Hang 2 Hang;…