Ask HN: Good books on debugging?

the best description I've ever read of debugging is in Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

Nice recommendation. Looks like the 3rd edition was just published this month.

At CMU, we used CS:APP (Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective).

Any Sherlock Holmes adventure book.

API Design for C++ Reddy, M.

The best general-purpose debugging book I've read is the cumbersomely named Debugging: The 9 Indispensible Rules for Finding Even the Most Elusive Software and Hardware Problems by David J. Agans

I have read it, and it's quite good.

"Debugging Applications" by John Robbins is an old MS Press book

Robert Ward, "Debugging C". There is a second edition with a somewhat different title that I have not read, but expect would be good.

"Find the Bug: a Book of Incorrect Programs" by Adam Barr

oh yes ! heartily recommended. i have a copy from amazon, and the stories are just incredible.

has a good book called "Why Programs Fail: A Guide to Systematic Debugging", 2nd edition.