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Encountering the same issue in an application
I've often come across the situation when the same mistake is made in many places in an application. For example, in a web application when the user creates an item and clicks the Add button to save ...
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What can be done to decrease the number of live issues with applications?
First off I have seen this post which is slightly similar to my question. :
What can you do to decrease the number of deployment bugs of a live website?
Let me layout the situation for you. The ...
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3answers
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What was the historical impact of Ariane 5's Flight 501?
The disintegration of the Ariane 5 rocket 37 seconds after launch on her maiden voyage (Flight 501) is commonly referred to as one of the most expensive software bugs in history1:
It took the ...
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12answers
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Should QA find reproducible scenarios?
Sometimes my QA team reports bugs, but neither I or them have any idea on how to reproduce them. This leads to very long and frustrating debugging sessions which sometimes do not even yield results.
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6answers
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How do I approach fixing an unreproducible/randomly occurring bug?
We have a multilingual website in which a bug was discovered some days ago. It was displaying other language data in other language and also the mixture of data like English language was selected but ...
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19answers
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How come compilers are so reliable?
We use compilers on a daily basis as if their correctness is a given, but compilers are programs too, and can potentially contain bugs. I always wondered about this infallible robustness. Have you ...
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13answers
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What have you learned from the bugs you helped discover and fix?
I liked the core of this question, and wanted to re-ask it in a way that made it less about 'fun' and more about 'What do these past mistakes tell us about how we can write and test software better?'
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Have you tried Chronon the Java “Time Travelling Debugger” — if so, is it worth trying and why?
First heard about it from Google Tech Talks, back 2009 when it was called Silver Bullet:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpfmKIxusZY
It's now called, Chronon...
http://chrononsystems.com/
"Sounds" ...
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10answers
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What to do with bugs that do not repro?
I have a tester that while testing will have an error occur (ok so far), but then he frequently reports it right away. We (the developers) then later find that the tester has not tried to reproduce ...
