Bugs and flaws

[gem at cigital.com (Gary McGraw)]

Hi Weld,

You make a very good point.  I think we have lots to learn from
manufacturing.  

As a matter of practice, I usually use the terms that you suggested as
modifiers and say:

implementation bug
design flaw

software defect

As long as there is a clear way to separate the two ends of the slippery
spectrum, I will be happy.  But I'm still gonna say "bug" and "flaw" for
short even when I mean the really long involved things above!  Simplify.

gem



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