• A software bug is a design defect (bug) in computer software. A computer program with many or serious bugs may be described as buggy. The effects of a...
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  • 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...
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    Perlroth, Nicole (25 September 2014). "Security Experts Expect 'Shellshock' Software Bug in Bash to Be Significant". New York Times. Retrieved 25 September 2014...
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  • system or defect tracking system is a software application that keeps track of reported software bugs in software development projects. It may be regarded...
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  • In computer programming jargon, a heisenbug is a software bug that seems to disappear or alter its behavior when one attempts to study it. The term is...
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    for all scenarios. It cannot find all bugs. Based on the criteria for measuring correctness from an oracle, software testing employs principles and mechanisms...
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    by the bug would require anything between $400 million and $600 billion to rectify. A lack of clarity regarding the potential dangers of the bug led some...
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  • A bug bounty program is a deal offered by many websites, organizations, and software developers by which individuals can receive recognition and compensation...
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  • A software regression is a type of software bug where a feature that has worked before stops working. This may happen after changes are applied to the...
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    bug. The most vulnerable systems are those which are infrequently or never updated, such as legacy and embedded systems. Modern systems and software updates...
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    Jira (/ˈdʒiːrə/ JEE-rə) is a software product developed by Atlassian that allows bug tracking, issue tracking and agile project management. Jira is used...
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  • Debugging (redirect from Bug bash)
    process of finding the root cause, workarounds, and possible fixes for bugs. For software, debugging tactics can involve interactive debugging, control flow...
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  • In computer science, data type limitations and software bugs can cause errors in time and date calculation or display. These are most commonly manifestations...
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  • security bug or security defect is a software bug that can be exploited to gain unauthorized access or privileges on a computer system. Security bugs introduce...
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    source code of the software. Furthermore, users are encouraged to submit additions to the software, code fixes for the software, bug reports, documentation...
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    earlier bug, executing invalid machine instructions (an illegal or unauthorized opcode), or triggering an unhandled exception. The original software bug that...
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  • Stagefright is the name given to a group of software bugs that affect versions from 2.2 "Froyo" up until 5.1.1 "Lollipop" of the Android operating system...
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    Fossil is a software configuration management, bug tracking system and wiki software server for use in software development created by D. Richard Hipp...
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    Heartbleed (redirect from Heartbleed Bug)
    to the OpenSSL team on 1 April 2014 11:09 UTC. The bug was named by an engineer at Synopsys Software Integrity Group, a Finnish cyber security company...
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  • a defect in an engineered system Software bug Hardware bug BUG (tag), a computer programming comment tag Score bug, overlaid display of information in...
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  • Computer hardware or software is said to be bug compatible if it exactly replicates an undesirable feature of a previous version. The phrase is found in...
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    Nuclear Gandhi is a video game urban legend purporting the existence of a software bug in the 1991 strategy video game Civilization that would eventually force...
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  • Trac (redirect from Trac (software))
    and bug tracking system. It has been adopted by a variety of organizations for use as a bug tracking system for both free and open-source software and...
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  • Malware (redirect from Malicious software)
    backdoor application. A backdoor can also be a side effect of a software bug in legitimate software that is exploited by an attacker to gain access to a victim's...
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  • Patch (computing) (redirect from Bug fix)
    that is can be used to modify an existing software resource such as a program or a file, often to fix bugs and security vulnerabilities. A patch may be...
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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...
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  • Automatic bug-fixing is the automatic repair of software bugs without the intervention of a human programmer. It is also commonly referred to as automatic...
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    Perlroth, Nicole (25 September 2014). "Security Experts Expect 'Shellshock' Software Bug in Bash to Be Significant". The New York Times. Archived from the original...
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    Software quality assurance and security are critical aspects of software development, as bugs and security vulnerabilities can lead to system failures and...
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