All software has bugs, and like any major piece of engineering, building or construction, the likelihood and presence of glitches and obstacles are almost inevitable.
Sometimes bugs arise as the result of serious errors in building functional software; sometimes they are caused by minor system glitches and incompatibilities... and sometimes - especially in the modern web and cloud era - they are potentially driven by connections to third-party technologies.
Unexpected Software Actions
In simple terms, a bug means that the software is behaving in an unexpected way. "The word bug is used quite liberally, both to refer to the symptom and the cause," explains Esko Hannula, senior vice president of product management at Copado, a company recognized for its low-code DevOps and automated testing platform, which handles application controls in Salesforce. "In proper terms, a human error [in the programming phase] produces a software defect that causes a malfunction, resulting in the malfunction of the same software. Fortunately, most software defects cause only wasted time."
We can point the finger at software application development engineers when looking for the reasons why certain bugs exist, but sometimes they occur as a result of the sequence of user actions that an individual can perform with an application. Obviously, software is complex, which means that sometimes the almost infinite variety of ways in which a user can interact with the components of an application can be difficult to predict - especially when interconnected to other services through an application programming interface (API).
Programmers like to call these problems "random bigs," but in reality there are no random errors.
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