General Sources for Bug Types

This section covers more generic information than the previous section, dealing with syntax versus semantic errors and the like. There are a lot of pages like this on the web.

Acorn Corporation. “What to Do if Baffled.” Chapter 12 of Atom Theory and Practice. http://www.howell1964.freeserve.co.uk/Acorn/Atom/atap/atap_12.htm.

Dassen, J. H.M. and I. G. Sprinkhuizen-Kuyper . “Types of Bugs.” Chapter 3 of Debugging C and C++ Code in a UNIX Environment. http://oopweb.com/CPP/Documents/DebugCPP/Volume/debug.html.

Green, Roedy . How to Write Unmaintainable Code. http://mindprod.com/unmain.html.

Pitts, Robert I. Compiler, Linker and Run-Time Errors. BU CAS CS Notes, Boston University Computer Science Department. http://www.cs.bu.edu/teaching/cpp/debugging/errors/ ...

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