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Software bug

A software bug is a defect (bug) in computer software. A computer program with many or serious bugs may be described as buggy.

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Software bug

Nodes163
Edges162
Triples108
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.01227
Components1

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Software bug

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related to In popular culture · 21
Software bug → American, An, Canadian, Contact, Control Alt Delete, Ellen Ullman, English, HAL, In, Luftballons, MissingNo, Nena, Odyssey Two, Office Space, Pokémon, Red Balloons, Space Odyssey, The, The Bug, The Year We Make
see also · 18
Software bug → ACMSingle-event, Anti-pattern, Automatic, Chip, Committee, Correlative, Degradation, Digest, Electronic, Engineering, Flaw, Former ISO, IEC, Periodical, Rewards, Software, Solution, Volatility
related to "Bugs in the System" report · 9
Software bug → August, Bugs, Congress, Government, New America, One, System, The, The Open Technology Institute
related to Open source · 9
Software bug → An, Debian, Elias Levy, Eric, Linus's, Open, OpenSSL, Raymond, This
related to Examples · 8
Software bug → Ariane, British Post Office, Buggy, European Space Agency's US, In, RAF Chinook, Software, Therac-25
related to Implications · 5
Software bug → GitHub, In, Lientz, Other, The
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Software bug → defect

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