• 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, 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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    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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  • Debugging (redirect from Bug bash)
    In engineering, debugging is the process of finding the root cause, workarounds, and possible fixes for bugs. For software, debugging tactics can involve...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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