What to Do With a Bug Report You Can't Reproduce
A systematic approach to bugs you can't reproduce — the usual causes, the context that resolves them, and how to stop them recurring.
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A systematic approach to bugs you can't reproduce — the usual causes, the context that resolves them, and how to stop them recurring.
A UAT round produces a spreadsheet with sixty rows, half of them unactionable. The problem is rarely the testers. It's that the reporting channel throws away the evidence at the exact moment it exists.
Every team writes a bug report template. Most are ignored within a month, because they ask people to do work a browser could do for them. Here's a template worth keeping — and the case for deleting three quarters of it.
Separating reports from tasks is the small structural decision that keeps a bug inbox from becoming a graveyard — and turns duplicate reports into your best debugging asset.