The Art of Debugging illustrates the use of three of the most popular debugging tools on Linux/Unix platforms: GDB, DDD, and Eclipse. In addition to offering specific advice for debugging with each tool, authors Norm Matloff and Pete Salzman cover general strategies for improving the process of finding and fixing coding errors, including how to inspect variables and data structures, understand segmentation faults and core dumps, and figure out why your program crashes or throws exceptions. The book also explains how to use features like catchpoints, convenience variables, and artificial arrays and become familiar with ways to avoid common debugging pitfalls.

Norman Matloff 美國加州大學戴維斯分校計算機科學教授，研究領域涉及並行處理（尤其是軟件分布式共享內存）、計算機通信網絡、數據安全及數學和應用統計等。他編寫瞭很多開源軟件包，創作的在綫教程也深受歡迎。

Peter Jay Salzman 美國加州大學戴維斯分校理論物理博士，該校Linux用戶組的創建者，同時維護著多個受歡迎的在綫HOWTO。現在華爾街某金融企業做程序員。