Accident Definition

Accident — an event arising from faults within the system terminating abnormally an executing sequence, and thereby leading to an undesired final state of retry. In software engineering, accident is one unwanted result that may arise during program adapting or developing. Concerning consequences of an accident may include data corruption, system failures, security issues, and more.

The errors in the code, defective designs, inept quality assurance testing among many others through the lifecycle could occur from different causes of accidents. But several practices are proposed in order to diffuse all risks pertained possible accidents contributing to a stable software force.