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A program that will disassemble the Macintosh ROM or any 68K or PowerPC code in a Macintosh resource file and produce a procedural representation of what it is disassembling along with cross reference maps of the procedures, Macintosh Trap names and Macintosh Low Memory Globals.
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 Nosy is a program that will disassemble the Macintosh ROM or any 68K or PowerPC code in a Macintosh resource file and produce a procedural representation of what it is disassembling along with cross reference maps of the procedures, Macintosh...
http://www.jasik.com/nosy.html

Application designed to help programmers and quality assurance testers determine which parts of a program have been executed.
http://www.jasik.com/CoverTest.html

Low and high-level symbolic debugging of both 68K and PowerPC programs in a full multi-window Macintosh environment.
http://www.jasik.com/features.html

A stand-alone application for monitoring and stressing heaps in open applications, and helping to find problems such as memory leaks and heap corruption.
http://www.adianta.com/files/MMSummary.html

Several good articles on Mac OS debugging, including "Macintosh Debugging: A Weird Journey into the Belly of the Beast", "Macintosh Debugging:The Belly of the Best Revisited", "Balance of Power: MacsBug for PowerPC", "Sleuthing Through Your Code" and "Balance of Power: Stalking the Wild Defect".
http://developer.apple.com/dev/t...bysubject/testing_debugging.html

FTP download of the latest version of Macsbug, a low level debugger for Mac OS machines, including documentation for older versions.
ftp://ftp.apple.com/devworld/Too...g_-_Debugging/Debuggers_-_dcmds/

Bug reporting and tracking solutions. Multiple features including bug reports via e-mail, e-mail notifications, handling duplicate bugs as single bug reports, automatically generating product release notes, and attaching files to bug reports.
http://www.seapine.com/products.html

Home of BugLink, a bug tracking system for the Macintosh and Windows and YAAF, a freeware C++ cross-platform application framework.
http://www.pandawave.com/

A client/server style bug tracking environment which allows software development teams to track software defects. A single database, maintained by the BugLink server, keeps track of all information regarding the bugs on your project.
http://www.pandawave.com/buglink.html

Tips and tricks on how to make use of the Macs built in low-level debugger.
http://www.mactech.com/articles/.../07.09/MacsBugresults/index.html

A grab bag of tips and tricks for debugging Macintosh software with the MacsBug low-level debugger: where to get it, what books to read, and lots of helpful hints.
http://www.goingware.com/tips/macsbug.html