Title: The bug : a novel /
Authors: Ullman, Ellen.
Publisher: Nan A. Talese,
Year: 2003
Subjects: Computer software developers Fiction.; Computer programmers Fiction; Computer industry Fiction; Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County, Calif.) Fiction.
Abstract: In 1984, Roberta Watson, a quality assurance tester with a computer start-up company, and Ethan Levin, a computer programmer, try to find the bug which is infecting their company's new software before it ruins the company and their lives.
Contents: Rules of the game of life -- Part 1: -- The pause -- A vacation in time -- The schedule -- A return -- And another -- Part 2: -- A milestone -- The code review -- A ride in the chair -- The debugger -- Nourishment -- Part 3: -- Memory leaks -- Malloc -- The troll's warning -- The night systems administrator -- A week in the mountains -- Breakpoint -- Part 4: -- A map of the code -- The core dump -- The key to all mythologies -- Joanna's betrayal -- The miracle in the mechanism -- Life -- Programmer's postscript -- Acknowledgments.