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Describe one a recent software bug and its impact in at least 300 words. About UK airspace closed problem.

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WHY DOES SOFTWARE HAVE BUGS A SOFTWARE BUG IS A PROBLEM CAUSING A PROGRAM TO CRASH OR PRODUCE INVALID OUTPUT. THE PROBLEM IS CAUSED BY INSUFFICIENT OR ERRONEOUS LOGIC. A BUG CAN BE AN ERROR, MISTAKE, DEFECT OR FAULT, WHICH MAY CAUSE FAILURE OR DEVIATION FROM EXPECTED RESULTS. UK AIRSPACE CLOSED • Over 150 flights from London airports were cancelled and hundreds more delayed on 12 December last year. A server in Swanwick running the UK’s National Air Traffic Services (NATS) flight data processing system went down as a result of a software flaw. NATS has experienced a number of technical failures since the Swanwick base opened. Worryingly, software experts have warned its systems could collapse again.
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Software quality is one of the vital ingredients for customer satisfaction. The quality of a
system is affected when the computer system failures to work normally by producing unexpected
results in its output. An error or a defect in the computer system is referred as a bug (DERN,
2015). A bug in the softw...

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