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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(engineering), a defect in an engineered system Software bug Hardware bug BUG (tag), a computer programming comment tag Pathogen, colloquially Bug (comics)...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Additional personnel Sean Slade – engineering Paul Q. Kolderie – engineering Maura Jasper – cover art Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Bug – Dinosaur Jr". AllMusic....
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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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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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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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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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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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In digital computing, hardware security bugs are hardware bugs or flaws that create vulnerabilities affecting computer central processing units (CPUs)...
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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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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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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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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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section of code) instead of a profiler, or tracking bugs in a text file or spreadsheet instead of a bug tracking system. The distinction between tools and...
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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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Computer engineering (CoE or CpE) is a branch of electrical engineering that integrates several fields of electrical engineering , electronics engineering and...
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a complete rewrite. At the critical mass stage, fixing a bug introduces one or more new bugs. Tools such as high-level programming languages and techniques...
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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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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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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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software development is known as software engineering, especially when it employs formal methods or follows an engineering design process. Programmable devices...
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