What is the difference between a Defect & an Error?

Answer Posted / sunitha

Typically a bug is when something works incorrectly. An
error is when
something doesnt work at all. A bug can be squashed and an
error u cant.

OR u can say like this also....
A mistake in coding is called error,error found by tester is
called defect defect accepted by development team then it is
called bug...."Correct me if am wrong".

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