The majority of the testers came to a point in their life when they really get tired and bored of dealing with software bugs on a daily basis, their minds are stuck with a question; “ Why software has bugs?” So keep your minds and eyes both open because we have come with the answer to this question for you.
Software bugs usually arise because of the mistakes in the initial phases of a software product i.e designing and coding, humans make. But there are many more reasons than this alone. Before we drag your attention to these reasons, remember that your one-stop solution provider for all of the reasons for the occurrence of software bugs is the use of bug management tools. These tools help teams like you in a hard time tracking, managing, and recording errors or bugs.
Reasons why software has bugs?
Lack of effective communication – The success of a good product either its a software application or any other commodity, lies in the efficiency or effectiveness of its team communication skills. Unclear requirements and misinterpretation of requirements are two major factors causing defects in software.
Also, defects are introduced in the development stage if exact requirements are not communicated properly to development teams.
Complications to use software – For people without modern software development experience, the complexity of current software applications may be difficult. Windows-type interfaces, client servers, and distributed applications, data communications, huge relational databases, and huge application sizes all contribute to exponential growth in software/system complexity.
Unless carefully designed, the use of object-oriented techniques will complicate rather than simplifying the project.
Deadlines of project submissions – It’s a proven fact that whenever an individual is mentally pressured to complete a task in as minimal time as possible, the task may have been completed but not as per the required standards. Similarly, in the software development and testing industry, teams are given the extreme pressure of completing the most time-consuming tasks like testing in a couple of hours or days, that’s the point when software becomes full of errors because of the mistakes teams make while submitting projects on the deadlines.
Badly documented code – It is challenging to maintain and update the poorly written or poorly documented code; the result is therefore software errors. In many organizations, management does not motivate programmers to record their code or write clear and understandable code. In fact, it’s usually the opposite: they get points mostly for quickly turning out code, and there’s job security if nobody else can understand it (‘if it was hard to write, it should be hard to read’).
Final Thoughts
There’s a huge list of reasons that explain the above question of why software has a bug? A few of them are discussed above. All you have to do is to implement good bug management or defect management tool to get rid of these errors and bugs as much as possible. But remember to select a tool that aligns with your business and project requirements.
