In plain English
Something in the software has gone wrong. Because of that, an action cannot finish in the right way, or it ends with the wrong outcome.
In context
Here, "error" labels a message that reports a software problem that stopped an operation from being completed correctly or produced an incorrect result.
- Situation
- Reading processing, queue, validation, success, warning, and error messages
- What it communicates
- labels a message reporting that something went wrong
Meaning limits
The term alone does not say what caused the problem or whether it can be fixed.
Examples
“An error in the photo editor exported the image upside down.”
“When the user tried to print the page, the app showed an error.”