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A software bug is a bug in computer software. A computer program with many or serious bugs may be described as buggy. The effects of a software bug range from minor (such as a misspelled word in the user interface) to severe (such as frequent crashing). Software bugs have been linked to disasters.
Software development. In engineering, debugging is the process of finding the root cause of and workarounds and possible fixes for bugs. For software, debugging tactics can involve interactive debugging, control flow analysis, log file analysis, monitoring at the application or system level, memory dumps, and profiling.
The Middle English word bugge is the basis for the terms bugbear and bugaboo as terms used for a monster. [1] The term bug to describe a defect has been engineering jargon since at least as far back as the 1870s – long before electronic computers and computer software.
Patch (computing) A patch is data that is intended to be used to modify an existing software resource such as a program or a file, often to fix bugs and security vulnerabilities. [1][2] A patch may be created to improve functionality, usability, or performance. A patch is typically provided by a vendor for updating the software that they provide.
In computer programming jargon, a heisenbug is a software bug that seems to disappear or alter its behavior when one attempts to study it. [1] The term is a pun on the name of Werner Heisenberg, the physicist who first asserted the observer effect of quantum mechanics, which states that the act of observing a system inevitably alters its state ...
In computer programming, a logic error is a bug in a program that causes it to operate incorrectly, but not to terminate abnormally (or crash). A logic error produces ...
Many software bugs are merely annoying or inconvenient, but some can have extremely serious consequences—either financially or as a threat to human well-being. [1] The following is a list of software bugs with significant consequences.
Scunthorpe problem. Security bug. Shellshock (software bug) Software regression. Sorcerer's Apprentice Syndrome. Stack buffer overflow. Stack overflow. Stagefright (bug) Stale pointer bug.