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inappropriate management of resources
subject			fact

inappropriate management of resources	has definition A defect that occurs when a program uses certain resources but does not make them available to other programs when it no longer needs them
	has testing strategy run the program intensively over a long period of time in such a way that it uses many resources, relinquishes them and then uses them again repeatedly
	is a subtopic of 10.6 - Defects in Handling Stress and Unusual Situations
	is a kind of defect in handling stress and unusual situations
defect in handling stress and unusual situations	can be detected by running the system intensively suppling the system with a very large amount of input running many copies of the system running the system on a computer or network that is busy running other systems running the system in atypical environments
	is only encountered when a system is being heavily used, or forced to its limits in some other way
	represents a lack of robustness
defect	has example the absence of code to handle an exception
problem	has solution which will normally entail developing software, although you may decide that it is better to purchase software or to develop a non-software solution
	should be written as a simple problem statement in one or two sentences

Kinds of inappropriate management of resources :

• defect in the process of recovering from a crash (4 facts) - A defect that occurs when a system does not deal with hardware failures, crashes of related systems or the power being turned off
• memory leak (6 facts) - A situation in which a program requests memory but does not release it when it is no longer needed