sailu

• Jul 20th, 2006

 

An occurrence in which one defect prevents the detection of another is defect masking. So the undetected defect is masked defect.

Correct me if I am wrong.

Deepa

• Jul 21st, 2006

 

Masked Defect:An existing defect that hasn't yet caused a failure because another defect has prevented that part of the code from being executed. (I got this from the web)

swetha

• Jul 25th, 2006

 

In simpler terms: A bug hiding an other bug, which is not detected.

shashi

• Jul 28th, 2006

 

can anybody give an example to masked defect, please

kurtz182

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• Dec 15th, 2009

 

Masked defect:  When one defect prevents the detection of another defect, the undetected defect is called the masked defect.

EXAMPLE

Blocking defect:  A particular text box doesn't validate properly and the validation message doesn't display. 

Masked defect:  The validation text is incorrect.