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|archive-date=September 15, 1993

|access-date=May 27, 2024}} [https://www5.in.tum.de/~huckle/chinook_software.pdf Alt URL]</ref>

* Buggy software caused the early 21st century [[British Post Office scandal]].<ref name=beeb182>{{Cite news |title=Post Office scandal ruined lives, inquiry hears |author=<!--not stated--> |work=BBC News |date=14 February 2022 |url= https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60374182}}</ref><!--[[User:Kvng/RTH]]-->

== Controversy ==

Sometimes the use of ''bug'' to describe the behavior of software is contentious due to perception. Some suggest that the term should be abandoned; replaced with ''defect'' or ''error'' contending that ''bug'' implies that the defect arose on its own and push to use ''defect'' instead since it more clearly connotates caused by a human.<ref>{{cite journal

Some contend that ''bug'' implies that the defect arose on its own and push to use ''defect'' instead since it more clearly connotates caused by a human.<ref>{{cite journal

|publisher=[[Software Engineering Institute]]

|title=News at SEI September 1999

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|journal=[[Computerworld]]

|date=April 27, 2011

|url=https://www.computerworld.com/article/1534426/apple-denies-tracking-iphone-users-but-promises-changes}}</ref><!--[[User:Kvng/RTH]]-->

== Prevention ==