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.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Yin-al:FSE11,
author = {Zuoning Yin and
Ding Yuan and
Yuanyuan Zhou and
Shankar Pasupathy and
Lakshmi N. Bairavasundaram},
title = {How do fixes become bugs?},
booktitle = {FSE},
pages = {26--36},
publisher = {{ACM}},
year = {2011},
}