[comp.software-eng] Error classification

marks@ssdevo.enet.dec.com (03/01/90)

In article <39400075@m.cs.uiuc.edu>, marick@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes...
> 
>Errors come in
>different categories -- there are off-by-one errors, storage leaks,
>wrong identifier used, etc. 

I'm interested in the classification of errors or bugs.
Does anybody have a list of such classifications, or point me to a
book or tech. paper?  The ultimate use of these classifications is
to improve software quality by focusing effort on those classifications
which prove to historically be most predominant (in our environment).

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