UVA658-It’s not a Bug, it’s a Feature!-最短路

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UVA658-It’s not a Bug, it’s a Feature!-最短路

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It is a curious fact that consumers buying a new software product generally do not expect the software

to be bug-free. Can you imagine buying a car whose steering wheel only turns to the right? Or a

CD-player that plays only CDs with country music on them? Probably not. But for software systems

it seems to be acceptable if they do not perform as they should do. In fact, many software companies

have adopted the habit of sending out patches to fix bugs every few weeks after a new product is

released (and even charging money for the patches).

Tinyware Inc. is one of those companies. After releasing a new word processing software this

summer, they have been producing patches ever since. Only this weekend they have realized a big

problem with the patches they released. While all patches fix some bugs, they often rely on other bugs

to be present to be installed. This happens because to fix one bug, the patches exploit the special

behavior of the program due to another bug.

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