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What do u mean by Masked Defect

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Last Update: July 29, 2006 Asked by: Ashok

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Submitted by: sailu

An occurrence in which one defect prevents the detection of another is defect masking. So the undetected defect is masked defect.

Correct me if I am wrong.

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July 20, 2006 20:46:20

sailu

RE: What do u mean by Masked Defect

An occurrence in which one defect prevents the detection of another is defect masking. So the undetected defect is masked defect.

Correct me if I am wrong.

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July 21, 2006 04:47:51

Deepa

RE: What do u mean by Masked Defect

Masked Defect:An existing defect that hasn't yet caused a failure because another defect has prevented that part of the code from being executed. (I got this from the web)

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July 25, 2006 03:00:22

swetha

RE: What do u mean by Masked Defect

In simpler terms: A bug hiding an other bug which is not detected.

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July 28, 2006 18:17:41

shashi

RE: What do u mean by Masked Defect

can anybody give an example to masked defect please

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