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Re:You are never taught how to build quality software by digging on Monday December 11, 2023 @11:12AM (#38601834)
As another commenter pointed out,

> One plausible definition is “system deviates from its specification”

And that's quite reasonable. So I actually retract my argument.

For my own definition, I was considering a bug to be any behavior that the software engineers weren't expecting. Because those can exist invisibly for a long time until they become so bad they become visible. They can also exist for decades without causing any problems to functionality at all.

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