In engineering, a bug is a design defect in an engineered system that causes an undesired result. Although used exclusively to describe a technical issue...
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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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espionage Bug (engineering), a defect in an engineered system Software bug Hardware bug BUG (tag), a computer programming comment tag Score bug, overlaid display...
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The Pentium FDIV bug is a hardware bug affecting the floating-point unit (FPU) of the early Intel Pentium processors. Because of the bug, the processor...
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down bug (engineering) Bug hunter or debugger, a person who performs debugging Bug hunter or field research entomologist, a person who studies bugs in the...
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Heisenbug (redirect from Heisenbug (bug))
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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The Thing (listening device) (redirect from The Great Seal bug)
The Thing, also known as the Great Seal bug, was one of the first covert listening devices (or "bugs") to use passive techniques to transmit an audio signal...
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Year 2000 problem (redirect from Millennium Bug)
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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"first actual case of [a] bug being found", on September 9, 1947. Harvard Mark I Harvard Mark III Harvard Mark IV Bug (engineering)#History Rife 2006, p. 93...
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Additional personnel Sean Slade – engineering Paul Q. Kolderie – engineering Maura Jasper – cover art Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Bug – Dinosaur Jr". AllMusic....
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The brown marmorated stink bug (Halyomorpha halys) is an insect in the family Pentatomidae, native to China, Japan, Korea, and other Asian regions. In...
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Science portal Bug (engineering)#History Code: Debugging the Gender Gap List of pioneers in computer science Futures techniques Systems engineering Women in...
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In digital computing, hardware security bugs are hardware bugs or flaws that create vulnerabilities affecting computer central processing units (CPUs)...
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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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Aaron Fechter (redirect from Bashy Bug)
game at the IAAPA convention called Bashy Bug (stylized BASHyBUG), where the player attempts to stomp on a bug with a flipflop in a timed skill scenario...
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ILOVEYOU (redirect from Love bug virus)
ILOVEYOU, sometimes referred to as the Love Bug or Loveletter, was a computer worm that infected over ten million Windows personal computers on and after...
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Linus's law (redirect from Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow)
effectiveness of reviewing processes in finding bugs and security issues. In Facts and Fallacies about Software Engineering, Robert Glass refers to the law as a...
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Software regression (redirect from Regression bug)
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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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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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...
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Fuzzing (section Automated bug triage)
collect bug bounties if ClusterFuzz finds a crash with the uploaded fuzzer. In September 2014, Shellshock was disclosed as a family of security bugs in the...
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electrical engineering, electronics engineering and computer science. Computer engineering is referred to as electrical and computer engineering or computer...
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Cargo cult programming (redirect from Cargo cult software engineering)
cult programming is symptomatic of a programmer not understanding either a bug they were attempting to solve or the apparent solution (compare shotgun debugging...
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A stale pointer bug, otherwise known as an aliasing bug, is a class of subtle programming errors that can arise in code that does dynamic memory allocation...
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Software testing (redirect from Bug testing)
scenarios but cannot determine correctness for all scenarios. It cannot find all bugs. Based on the criteria for measuring correctness from an oracle, software...
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training Use case analysis Software engineering methodology Quality assurance testing and other best practices Security bugs generally fall into a fairly small...
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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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Starship Troopers (redirect from Bug (Starship Troopers))
interstellar war between humans and an alien species known as "Arachnids" or "Bugs". Interspersed with the primary plot are classroom scenes in which Rico and...
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associated in popular culture with a security hacker – someone with knowledge of bugs or exploits to break into computer systems and access data which would otherwise...
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