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How to report a bug in MS Access/VBA [closed]
Question: If you find a bug in a "classical" developement tool, you usually
prepare a minimal working example,
browse to the vendor's online bug tracker and
file a bug.
For example, you'd report ...
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Avoiding duplicate bug reports
I use Linux and other open source software in my home. As I'm not a professional coder, I usually report bugs to developers as my skills are not enough to solve problems on my own.
What kind of ...
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Is it a bug or a task when something doesn't work, yet, in development process
We usually have this dilemma in our team. Sometimes, in order to implement a task or a story we find out that the system must be in a specific state. For example, a specific system configuration has ...
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Steps to maintain a good bug database
Maintaining bug database is an important for every project. I am used to store the followings at bug database
Issue date time
Who is assigned to
Whether it has been solved or not
If solved then, ...
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Best practice for marking a bug as resolved in Bugzilla ?
I am wondering what is the best way to handle the situation of marking a bug as resolved and providing a version of component/product in which this fix can be found.
Context
For a project I am ...
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My boss decided to add a “person to blame” field to every bug report. How can I convince him that it's a bad idea?
In one of the latest "WTF" moves, my boss decided that adding a "Person To Blame" field to our bug tracking template will increase accountability (although we already have a way of tying bugs to ...
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Whose responsibility is a bug fix patch?
A situation that has arisen several times in open source projects goes like this:
I notice a bug in our deployment, and figure out a quick hack patch. (For example, simply commenting out code that ...
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Why could citing bug IDs in patch notes be considered a bad practice?
Based on a comment and subsequent upvotes from Bug reopen vs. new:
Citing bug IDs in patch notes is just.. very unfriendly. – Krelp
It appears at least some people feel that referencing bug IDs ...
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Bugs that can be avoided with coding standards
I am looking for statistics (or estimations) that backup the claim that coding standards help reduce bugs. Hard-numbers would be nice, although I haven't had much look finding any. I've even looked ...
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Getting users to write decent and useful bug reports
Does anyone know a good way to get users to write a semi-decent (read: useful) bug report?
We wanted to put up something that would make sense to most users (be easy to read and understand), yet give ...
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Definition of a Software bug. Blizzard Entertainment insists that my “bug” is not a bug at all. Are they right? [closed]
According to Wikipepdia,
A software bug is the common term used to describe an error, flaw, mistake, failure, or fault in a computer program or system that
produces an incorrect or unexpected ...
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Submit issue, pull request, or both for a very small fix?
I've made a 4-line bug fix to a minor issue in a library on github. The project is actively maintained with changes every few days.
What is the ideal way to submit a fix that small? Is it to fork, ...
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Reaction time of big companies to bug reports
I have submitted a bug report over a month ago to one of the biggest software companies about one of their flagship development products (I deliberately not include any more details about this bug ...
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Crash and error report to developer [from user perspective]: Some questions
I have some questions regarding whether to crash or report errors to the user. We are developing a web site and mobile clients in which we allow our users to report any bugs and crashes through ...
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How to report a bug to developers? A programmers quest to educated on bug reporting
I'm hoping to get some tips and advice on how to educate the rest of the company on how to submit proper bug reports. Currently we get tickets like:
When I click this link I get a 404.
(They ...
