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 Posted: Wed, 24th Aug 2005 17:03 Post subject: Differences between "Bug" and "Error" |
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Hey folks,
Me and my buddies here had this discussion about those two words and their meaning. My friends say Bug = Error, but not me. For me its more like error is more serioius and happends all the time and thus must be fixed. Bug is something that _can_ make the application disfunction. Occationally.
What do you guys say?
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| Posted: Wed, 24th Aug 2005 17:15 Post subject: |
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a bug can be a certain situation that causes a program to output unwanted results more like a little glitch in the programming. a situation that was not thought of. an error is a program failure.
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| Posted: Wed, 24th Aug 2005 18:11 Post subject: |
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bug: A computer bug is an error, flaw, mistake, failure, or fault in a computer program that prevents it from working correctly or produces an incorrect result. Bugs arise from mistakes and errors, made by people, in either a program's source code or its design. It is said that there are bugs in all useful computer programs, but well-written programs contain relatively few bugs, and these bugs typically do not prevent the program from performing its task. A program that contains a large number of bug
error: the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer
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| Posted: Wed, 24th Aug 2005 19:44 Post subject: |
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| toeffy wrote: | | a bug can be a certain situation that causes a program to output unwanted results more like a little glitch in the programming. a situation that was not thought of. an error is a program failure. |
Exactly my thought also. Maybe they didnt get what I mean. In some way I get them that bug = error... But I dont see them as equals.
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| Posted: Wed, 24th Aug 2005 20:16 Post subject: |
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| skidrow wrote: | bug: A computer bug is an error, flaw, mistake, failure, or fault in a computer program that prevents it from working correctly or produces an incorrect result. Bugs arise from mistakes and errors, made by people, in either a program's source code or its design. It is said that there are bugs in all useful computer programs, but well-written programs contain relatively few bugs, and these bugs typically do not prevent the program from performing its task. A program that contains a large number of bug
error: the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer |
I have to agree here... Though if the program have all its purposes working on 100% and with no errors at all, then how can it have a bug?
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| Posted: Wed, 24th Aug 2005 20:44 Post subject: |
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| Mutantius wrote: | | skidrow wrote: | bug: A computer bug is an error, flaw, mistake, failure, or fault in a computer program that prevents it from working correctly or produces an incorrect result. Bugs arise from mistakes and errors, made by people, in either a program's source code or its design. It is said that there are bugs in all useful computer programs, but well-written programs contain relatively few bugs, and these bugs typically do not prevent the program from performing its task. A program that contains a large number of bug
error: the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer |
I have to agree here... Though if the program have all its purposes working on 100% and with no errors at all, then how can it have a bug? |
Some programs may have no errors, but they may have bugs.
For example(bug): I installed some txt reader, and when I try to view a TXT file, the program doesn't wrap the text. I quit, I reenter, I open the TXT, and BAM! Everything is normal. But when I try again, it doesn't wrap it again :\
Error: I installed some txt reader, and when I try to view a TXT file, it says "Error occured in TXTReader.exe application will be closed".
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| Posted: Wed, 24th Aug 2005 21:43 Post subject: |
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The way I was taught in my computer science education:
a bug is a syntactically correct path of code that produces results other than intended.
an error is a problem that prematurely ends a batch of code against the design of the program.
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| Posted: Wed, 24th Aug 2005 22:01 Post subject: |
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I think from a programmers perspective a error is the logical consequence of a bug.
A bug is an (syntactic or sematic) error in the source of a program.
A bug produces a program error when buggy code is executed.
Basically both words are dependant on the perspective of their usage.
my 2 cents
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