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/.

Raymond, Eric, et al. The Jargon Dictionary. Version 4.2.2. http://info.astrian.net/jargon/. (Original version available at http://www.jargon.org/.)

Robust Programming + Testing, Profiling & Instrumentation. CS 217 Course Notes, Princeton University. http://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/spring03/cs217/lectures/Robust.pdf.

Shaw, Greg. Types of Programming Errors. COP 2210 Notes, Florida International University. http://www.fiu.edu/~shawg/2210/errors.doc.