Classification of Bugs
Here's some background information for the classification of bugs used in this book (Donald Knuth's paper being the most direct ancestor). A lot of the studies of bug types are based on observing inexperienced programmers, which tends to skew the results in a certain direction. Nonetheless, they make for interesting reading, particularly the series of Empirical Studies of Programmers workshop proceedings.
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