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This is something that I come across fairly often, and there are a couple ways to proceed, but never know which is the best way. I usually pick one way at random. I'm looking for a framework that I ...
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I am having a problem currently where product managers are raising improvements as bugs. Also, they expect us testers to catch them early. Our company doesn't have any requirement document and as QA ...
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While investigating Wikipedia article on Qantas Flight 72 I've found "Potential trigger types" section that says (emphasis mine): A number of potential trigger types were investigated, ...
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I'm working on a certain group repository. This repo has an issue tracker, but - it's not intended for all issues, and certainly ot for our day-to-day development work. The point is - I need to track ...
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I recently read an interesting Article that, due to a memory Overflow error Power system of Boeing will collapse and turns the Flight into a Flying Brick. This is a low level memory Handling bug. ...
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I was reading a article about front-end development on Medium, when I stumbled upon an interesting piece of information, which is as follows: The type of a variable can be determined by using the ...
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We get problems on production systems every now and then, most of which can't be replicated on dev/systest/uat for following reasons, We don't have enough data on dev/systest/uat e.g. production has ...
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For example: While performing functional testing of a form in a web application, we will test the fields by entering different kind of random input values. In general, we as users of the web ...
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I was wondering how you handle issues like that in your company. Usually when something goes wrong at a customer he needs to: Submit the issue he encountered Add logs / configuration data Suddenly ...
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May be it seems an open question (or non-constructive according to stackoverflow standards) .... but I am asking if there's something rigid according to Software process standards addressing this ...
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Is there an expression in programming that something will 'exercise bugs'? I have seen this written before but I don't know what it means.
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If there's a bug that triggers undefined behavior in a piece of code, is the undefined behavior consistent each time running it? and changes each time compiling it? For example if you had some C code ...
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If I am assigned a bug, I sometimes check version control to see when it was introduced. Should I notify the developer that introduced the bug, even if I already fixed it? The advantage is that it ...
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I'm a one-man band and I have a contract with a client to develop and maintain a web-based system that is relied upon. This is the first project of this size and type that I have done for anyone else ...
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This might be only a question of definition, but maybe there's a consensus? Given the situation, software Foobar Plus is under construction, we're not working on an update, but on the first release ...
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In an agile software development team, who would be the one to fix the bugs introduced in an update? The developer who writes the feature? Someone else specialized specifically in debugging with a ...
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We don't do this at our firm, but one of my friends says that his project manager asked every developer to add intentional bugs just before the product goes to QA. This is how it works: Just before ...
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To put this in context, I have the following scenario. I am writing a Common Lisp program that works with strings and lists of characters. In a certain function foo, the value of a variable suff is a ...
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In our group we usually don't ponder too much about what kind of design or implementation decisions caused a bug, we just fix it. Of course if some module constantly produces bugs people start to ...
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I have read lot of articles which state that code can't be bug-free, and they are talking about these theorems: Halting problem Gödel's incompleteness theorem Rice's theorem Actually Rice's theorem ...
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It is clearly a bad practice to incorporate several issues in a single bug. It is not convenient, hard to maintain, difficult to keep track of what is done and what is not, etc. But does all this ...
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I found, that some very famous app (I'm not disclosing name intentionally) has a "problem", when writing meta-data of a file and the file turns out to be read-only. Program doesn't handle ...
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I recently hired a programming team to do a port of my iPad app to the iPhone and Android platforms. Now, in a separate contract, I am asking them to implement a bunch of tips on how to play the ...
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I work for a software product company. We have large enterprise customers who implement our product and we provide support to them. For example, if there is a defect, we provide patches, etc. In other ...
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The following IMHO valid java program doesn't compile because the Oracle 1.7 javac compiler thinks there's a possible loss of precision in lines 5 and 6. If you uncomment line 3 and comment out line 4,...
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