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The Techworld posting Predictive model to flush out software bugs title got it wrong. There is no such thing as a software bug. Fortunately, the German researchers mentioned in the posting got it right. They use the word defect instead of bug.

Once upon a time, I was a software engineering manager. I railed against programmers foisting their logic defects onto the mythical “bug.”

Read more about my rant in Bugs are Defects.

…John

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