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Question:
What is the difference between a bug, a defect, and an error?
Posted by Manoj
Answer:
According to the British norm BS 7925-1: bug--generic term for fault, failure, error, human action that produces
an incorrect result.
Robert Vanderwall offers these formal definitions from IEEE 610.1. The
sub-points are his own.
mistake (an error): A human action that produces an incorrect result.
- mistake made in translation or interpretation.
- lots of taxonomies exist to describe errors.
fault: An incorrect step, process
or data definition.
- manifestation of the error in implementation
- this is really nebulous, hard to pin down the 'location'
failure: An incorrect result.
bug: An informal word describing any of the above. (Not IEEE)
Rohan Khale found a web site that
gave these definitions:
A bug exists because what is supposed to work does not work as what you
expected. Defects occur usually when a product no longer works the way it used to.
He found these easy to understand defintions: A defect is for something that normally works, but it has something
out-of-spec. On the other hand a Bug is something that was considered but not implemented, for whatever reasons.
I have seen these arbitrary definitions:
Error: programmatically mistake leads to error.
Bug: Deviation from the expected result.
Defect: Problem in algorithm leads to failure.
Failure: Result of any of the above.
Compare those to these arbitrary definitions:
Error: When we get the wrong output i.e. syntax error, logical error
Fault: When everything is correct but we are not able to get a result
Failure: We are not able to insert any input
See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_bug
In other words, the software industry can still not agree on the definitions for bug, defect, error, fault, or failure. In essence, if you use the term to mean one specific
thing, it may not be understood to be that thing by your audience. However, since the terms are not used correctly,
you should learn the meaning of them where you work. They also could go under the name of PR (Problem
Report), or CR (Change Request).
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