Debugging Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) and Timeout Detection and Recovery (TDR) - An Overview

Computer Software is prone to many defects and problems. Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) and Timeout Detection and Recovery (TDR) are the most commonly occurring defects in the Computer Software. So in order to find and resolve such defects, Debugging is one of the most important thing in the modern world. Debugging comes under software testing process and the entire software development lifecycle is dependent on it. For Debugging, “WinDbg” is the most widely used tool. This paper revolves around Debugging basics, Debugging a TDR / BSOD and a proposal for a new tool which can analyze crash dumps. This paper proposes a tool which can have a pre-debug information of any bug with the help of Dump created at the time of TDR/BSOD. This tool will analyze this Crash Dump without actually debugging with the target system.