Software reliability is mission critical for many domains including aerospace, military, finance, and telecom. These industries cannot tolerate errors or glitches and, some of them require 99.9999% up-time. Ensuring software reliability has many elements. Let’s take a look at some common defects that can cause software to crash. 1. Array Bounds. In C++, int a[3] contains 3 variables as a[0], a[1], a[2] , but if a programmer uses a[3], the system will not found this variable. 2. Null pointer. Have you seen a blue screen as 0x00000000? This information is usually caused by a null pointer because a software program [...]