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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.
An off-by-one error or off-by-one bug (known by acronyms OBOE, OBO, OB1 and OBOB) is a logic error that involves a number that differs from its intended value by +1 or −1.
Depending on the language and environment, other types of bugs can contribute to memory unsafety: Stack exhaustion – occurs when a program runs out of stack space, typically because of too deep recursion.
In computer programming, a logic error is a bug in a program that causes it to operate incorrectly, but not to terminate abnormally (or crash). A logic error produces ...
Automatic bug fixing. Automatic bug-fixing is the automatic repair of software bugs without the intervention of a human programmer. [1][2][3] It is also commonly referred to as automatic patch generation, automatic bug repair, or automatic program repair. [3] The typical goal of such techniques is to automatically generate correct patches to ...
In engineering, debugging is the process of finding the root cause of and workarounds and possible fixes for bugs. For software, debugging tactics can involve interactive debugging, control flow analysis, log file analysis, monitoring at the application or system level, memory dumps, and profiling. Many programming languages and software development tools also offer programs to aid in ...
Code smells are usually not bugs; they are not technically incorrect and do not prevent the program from functioning. Instead, they indicate weaknesses in design that may slow down development or increase the risk of bugs or failures in the future.
In software development, time-of-check to time-of-use (TOCTOU, TOCTTOU or TOC/TOU) is a class of software bugs caused by a race condition involving the checking of the state of a part of a system (such as a security credential) and the use of the results of that check.