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inappropriate management of resources comparison table

Subject	have testing strategy	cause	has definition	detect by	occur in
defect in the process of recovering from a crash	kill either your program or the programs with which it communicates, at various times during execution		A defect that occurs when a system does not deal with hardware failures, crashes of related systems or the power being turned off	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
memory leak	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	a computer to perform poorly or even run out of memory	A situation in which a program requests memory but does not release it when it is no longer needed	running a program for an extended period, and using a utility that indicates the amount of memory being used	programs written in C, C++ and certain other languages

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