A Bug is a colloquial term for a natural pest (most commonly for
insects but can also mean germs as in "coming down with a
stomach bug") or flaws in a human-engineered product like a
computer. Software bugs are errors in computer software. Levels
of severity There are levels of bugs: - Crashes the operating
system - you lose all your unsaved work in all programs -
Crashes the program - you lose your unsaved work in that program
- Feature stops working or works wrong - Feature is hard to find
("Can't get there from here") - feature exists, but poorly
documented, so you can't find it. Other ways to classify bugs -
Some computer programmers distinguish between coding errors and
design flaws, often using the half-joking justification, "That's
not a bug. It's a feature!" - Often the distinction between a
coding error, a design flaw and a feature request is
disregarded. Indeed, Sun Microsystems maintains a bug parade for
their Java platform which lets everyone in the world vote for a
bug fix or feature request. The