What is the difference between a gold bug and a latent bug?

Shormistha Chatterjee
1 min readSep 12, 2019

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What is Latent Bug?

  • The latent bug is not identified in the older versions of the software app
  • Bugs that remain unhidden or dormant are called as the latent bugs
  • These bugs are not found until 1 or more releases of the product
  • Illustration of latent bugs can be the date issues such as the y2k

What is Golden Bug?

• The Golden bug that is occurred in each instance of the app with severity level high and with high priority.

• These bugs are can affect the critical functionality of the software app or system.

  • The illustration can be behavior related to the prime functionality

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Shormistha Chatterjee
Shormistha Chatterjee

Written by Shormistha Chatterjee

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