This reference volume consists of revised, edited, cross-referenced, and thematically organized selected articles from Software Diagnostics Institute (DumpAnalysis.org + TraceAnalysis.org) and Software Diagnostics Library (former Crash Dump Analysis blog, DumpAnalysis.org/blog) about software diagnostics, root cause analysis, debugging, crash and hang dump analysis, software trace and log analysis written in August 2015 - February 2016 for software engineers developing and maintaining products on Windows platforms, quality assurance engineers testing software, technical support and escalation engineers dealing with complex software issues, security researchers, reverse engineers, malware and memory forensics analysts. This volume is fully cross-referenced with volumes 1 - 8 and features: - 9 new crash dump analysis patterns; - 9 new software log and trace analysis patterns; - 15 Linux core dump analysis pattern variants; - New workaround pattern; - New memory dump analysis case study; - Introduction to pattern-oriented software internals, pattern paradigms, pattern stacks, pattern repertoire; - Introduction to software diagnostics canvas; - Introduction to patterns-based root cause analysis methodology; - Introduction to a protein metaphor for software traces and logs; - Definition of software diagnostics scope; - Introduction to artificial debugger and pseudo-memory dumps; - Definition of tool-centric and pattern-centric software diagnostics, forensics, prognostics.