Errors - Boundary, Calculation, States
Boundary related errors
- Numeric boundaries
- Equality as a boundary
- Boundaries on numerosity
- Boundaries in space
- Boundaries in time
- Boundaries in loops
- Boundaries in memory
- Boundaries within data structures
- Hardware-related boundaries
- Invisible boundaries
- Calculation errors
- Outdated constants
Calculation Errors
- Impossible parentheses
- Wrong order of operators
- Bad underlying function
- Overflow and underflow
- Truncation and roundoff error
- Confusion about the representation of the data
- Incorrect conversion from one data representation to another
- Wrong formula
- Incorrect approximation
Initial and Later states
- Failure to set a data item to 0
- Failure to initialize a loop-control variable
- Failure to initialize (or reinitialize) a pointer
- Failure to clear a string
- Failure to initialize (or reinitialize) registers
- Failure to clear a flag
- Data were supposed to be initialized elsewhere
- Failure to reinitialize
- Assumption that data were not reinitialized
- Confusion between static and dynamic storage
- Data modification by side-effect
- Incorrect initialization
- Reliance on tools the customer may not have or understand
