How do fixes become bugs?
Zuoning Yin, Ding Yuan, Yuanyuan Zhou, Shankar Pasupathy, Lakshmi N. Bairavasundaram · 2011
Software bugs affect system reliability. When a bug is exposed in the field, developers need to fix them. Unfortunately, the bug-fixing process can also introduce errors, which leads to buggy patches that further aggravate the damage to end users and erode software vendors' reputation.