Grace Hopper found a moth between the contacts of the electromechanical relay inside her Mark II computer, causing it to malfunction.
After removing the bug, she taped a notation in the project's logbook: "first actual case of bug being found." This pioneer of computer programming coined the term bug for computer malfunction
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September 9th is World Tester's Day, a special event for
Software testers. On that day in 1947, American computer scientist Grace Hopper found a moth between the contacts of the electromechanical
relay inside her Mark II computer, causing it to malfunction. After
removing the bug, she taped a notation in the project's logbook: "first
actual case of bug being found."


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