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  2. Software bug - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. System requirements - Wikipedia

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    The most common set of requirements defined by any operating system or software application is the physical computer resources, also known as hardware, A hardware requirements list is often accompanied by a hardware compatibility list (HCL), especially in case of operating systems. An HCL lists tested, compatible, and sometimes incompatible ...

  4. Hardware bug - Wikipedia

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    A hardware bug is a bug in computer hardware. It is the hardware counterpart of software bug, a defect in software . A bug is different from a glitch which describes an undesirable behavior as more quick, transient and repeated than constant, and different from a quirk which is a behavior that may be considered useful even though not ...

  5. Patch (computing) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. List of software bugs - Wikipedia

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    The Corrupted Blood incident was a software bug in World of Warcraft that caused a deadly, debuff -inducing virtual disease that could only be contracted during a particular raid to be set free into the rest of the game world, leading to numerous, repeated deaths of many player characters.

  7. Software fault tolerance - Wikipedia

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    Software fault tolerance. Software fault tolerance is the ability of computer software to continue its normal operation despite the presence of system or hardware faults. Fault-tolerant software has the ability to satisfy requirements despite failures. [ 1][ 2] Following design patterns should be combined together to make the system more fault ...

  8. Memory safety - Wikipedia

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    In 2020, a team at Google similarly reported that 70% of all "severe security bugs" in Chromium were caused by memory safety problems. Many other high-profile vulnerabilities and exploits in critical software have ultimately stemmed from a lack of memory safety, including Heartbleed [8] and a long-standing privilege escalation bug in sudo . [9]

  9. Software testing - Wikipedia

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    A common cause of software failure (real or perceived) is a lack of its compatibility with other application software, operating systems (or operating system versions, old or new), or target environments that differ greatly from the original (such as a terminal or GUI application intended to be run on the desktop now being required to become a ...