defect management

defect management definition - computer

(1) The elimination of bugs in software and flaws in hardware. Defect management is part of a software or hardware development project.

(2) The prevention of data errors in a storage medium by invalidating bad sectors. Defect management is part of any read/write magnetic or optical storage medium. See hard disk defect management.



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