Contains 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, debugging, crash dump analysis, memory forensics, software trace and log analysis written in December 2014 - July 2015 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 - 7, 8a, and features: - 12 new crash dump analysis patterns, - 15 new software log and trace analysis patterns, - New memory dump analysis case study, - Introduction to articoding, - Introduction to special and general trace and log analysis, - Introduction to projective debugging, - Introduction to artifact-malware, - Introduction to concrete and general problem analysis patterns.