Allen Holub

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

You do not need a bug tracking system. In fact, a bug tracking system is a symptom of a deeper problem—insufficient focus on quality.

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DZone

DECEMBER 17, 2019

There is one major challenge that comes with every new app or website, something that tech-savvy people – name “a bug”. Those bugs are giving developers a tough time. Those bugs are the reason, why we require using bug tracking systems to find, document and resolve these bugs.

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Percona Community

DECEMBER 18, 2023

And, in true open-source form, report back on any issues or bugs you might encounter along the way. We constantly update our bug reports and monitor other boards to ensure we have the latest information, but we wanted to make it a little easier for you to keep track of the most critical ones.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Actually, bug reports are great If a bug report is adequately handled from both sides, it means that both the user and the software developer are interested in solving the problem. Today we'll look at it from a different perspective. If both sides achieve the desired result, it's a win-win situation.

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Percona

JANUARY 26, 2023

Most of us are lucky that software bugs are a small part of our lives. A bug appeared in MySQL’s recently released 8.0.32 This is a prime example of how a minor bug could have a significant impact on your life and a detrimental impact on your company or project. Most MySQL bug reports come with an example of the problem.

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DZone

JANUARY 3, 2020

Learn how to squash bugs! To err is human; to introduce bugs is to be a developer, and to debug is part of everyday life. and its 25 million lines of C code, described his struggling life with bugs this way: Spend weeks trying to understand the 20 different flags that interact in mysterious ways to cause a bug.

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DZone

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Today’s post focuses on bug reproduction issues that usually remain behind the scenes for everyone but testers, which isn’t always good for the whole software project quality. Many software testers sooner or later face a problem when a customer/their team can’t reproduce a reported bug. Can’t Reproduce” — What Are We Doing Wrong?

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DZone

MAY 3, 2019

A software bug is an error or fault in a computer program making it behave in unexpected ways. Bugs can be present at any stage during SDLC (software development lifecycle), or at the design, development, or user-acceptance testing phase. Bugs can never be eliminated completely.

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DZone

JUNE 3, 2020

How much is it worth to catch more bugs early in your product release process? And, as a result, catch more bugs earlier in your release process? Depending on where you are in your release process, you might be writing unit or systems tests.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 21, 2019

The security research community has partnered with us to improve the security of the Netflix service for the past few years through our responsible disclosure and bug bounty programs. A year ago, we launched our public bug bounty program to strengthen this partnership and enable researchers across the world to more easily participate.

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DZone

MARCH 23, 2020

In the world of end-to-end testing, we can get stuck playing Whack-A-Bug when we reactively write tests to bugs that pop up in production in order to prevent them from appearing again. Every time you think you’ve hit the mole, the little scoundrel always finds a way to pop up again somewhere else, and you’re always one step behind.

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Randon ASCII

AUGUST 30, 2020

I write a lot about investigations into tricky bugs – CPU defects , kernel bugs , transient 4-GB memory allocations – but most bugs are not that esoteric. Sometimes tracking down a bug is as simple as paying attention to server dashboards, spending a few minutes in a profiler, or looking at compiler warnings.

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DZone

MAY 6, 2019

Let’s talk about bugs – the grody, disgusting, overwhelming technical glitches — that cause hurdles and headaches for technical teams in countless organizations the world over. One of the best ways to do so is through a bug hunt. Simple concept; effective, measurable results.

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Testsigma

MARCH 2, 2022

Such organizations blame testers for a missed production bug. No matter how much you test, a few bugs can still slip through the testing phase & reach production. Every software tester would have come across a situation of a missed bug. This article will discuss how a tester can fix a missed bug in production.

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DZone

MAY 9, 2019

A bug that is well described has the capability to reduce the time taken to replicate the defect and resolve it. However, perfect bug describing is a skill overlooked by many organizations. In this article, we will discuss how to write a bug report effectively that will help developers replicate and resolve the issue.

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Dynatrace

JULY 2, 2019

We’ve recently joined forces with Hackerone , the industry leader in external bug bounty programs. For us, this is a logical next step after running our own internal bug bounty effort in 2018 to enhance security. Wait, what is a bug bounty program? They can then browse for all public bug bounty programs to participate in.

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DZone

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Over the year, the PVS-Studio team has written quite a number of articles covering a large variety of bugs found in open-source projects with the help of PVS-Studio. This 2020 top 10 list of bugs in C# projects presents the most interesting specimens. Enjoy the reading! How the List Was Formed.

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DZone

AUGUST 13, 2019

One of the most difficult tasks for QAs while testing a web app is tracking and eliminating bugs. No matter how perfectly developers build a web app, bugs are always inevitable in every software development process. Software bugs are the flaws or failures in the code that prevent an app from performing as expected.

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Testsigma

JUNE 27, 2020

Creating a bug-free software is hard, to the extent that it seems like a myth. Bugs in software represent the discrepancy between the expected and actual behaviour of the software. Prevention techniques are the ones that can be used to prevent bugs from occurring in the software. Types of Software Bugs. Introduction.

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DZone

OCTOBER 15, 2019

We've got to keep track of these bugs! Identifying bugs is one of the crucial phases in the software development lifecycle. Tracking the bug ensures quality assurance of software as well as eliminates the risk of post-release glitches. Addressing any software or an app plagued with bugs is the worst nightmare of the testers.

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Randon ASCII

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

See the end of the post for an October 2018 bug fix update, or read the whole story: Flaky failures are the worst. In this particular investigation, which spanned twenty months, we suspected hardware failure, compiler bugs, linker bugs, and other possibilities. The bug went away for a year. Local repros.

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DZone

JANUARY 24, 2020

Learn how to troubleshoot your application. Recently we were troubleshooting a popular SaaS application. This application was slowing down intermittently. To recover from the problem, the application had to be restarted. This application was slowing down sometimes during high traffic volume periods; sometimes during low traffic periods as well.

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DZone

APRIL 23, 2019

One of the essential tasks every QA engineer should master is how to log bug reports properly. Moreover, we will look into bug statuses and upgraded statuses workflow. Below you will read about the bug tracking strategy we proposed to a client of ours. Many people are confused about what information to include in such reports.

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The Morning Paper

MAY 16, 2019

Understanding real-world concurrency bugs in Go Tu, Liu et al., The design of a programming (or data) model not only makes certain problems easier (or harder) to solve, but also makes certain classes of bugs easier (or harder) to create, detect, and subsequently fix. Go programs have less concurrency bugs. Go concurrency bugs.

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Percona

APRIL 10, 2023

Percona decided to revert the following MySQL bug fix: The data and the GTIDs backed up by mysqldump were inconsistent when the options --single-transaction and --set-gtid-purged=ON were both used. Bug #33630199, Bug #105761) The current Percona decision also provides a solution for MySQL bug #33630199. Community Edition.

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DZone

JUNE 19, 2019

I've been playing around with Applitools for quite some time now, and I'd like to share what I've found to help you quickly troubleshoot React bugs and fix them fast. Automated Root Cause Analysis.

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The Morning Paper

JUNE 20, 2019

What bugs cause production cloud incidents? This is a study of every high severity production incident at Microsoft Azure services over a span of six months, where the root cause of that incident was a software bug. Most Azure code is written in.Net managed languages such as C#, reducing memory leak bugs. HotOS’19.

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Percona

JANUARY 23, 2023

Along with MySQL version 5.7.40, similar behavior is also noticed in Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.40 and Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7.40.

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SQL Performance

JUNE 14, 2019

This article is the third installment in a series about T-SQL bugs, pitfalls and best practices. Some of the bugs and best practices that I cover here are a result of a survey I did among fellow MVPs. All of these bugs are related to T-SQL querying fundamentals, and are easy to avoid if you follow simple best-practices.

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Testsigma

MAY 22, 2020

Bug reporting is an important and major aspect of software testing. Some teams discuss minor bugs with developers directly, while most companies make it a point to report the bugs irrespective of its severity. If a bug is not documented, the developer fails to understand the bug or worse, reject it.

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Percona

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Improvements and bug fixes introduced by Oracle for MySQL 8.0.30 43 was released and includes all the features and bug fixes available in MySQL 5.7.40 Improvements and bug fixes provided by Oracle for MySQL 5.7.40 This release is focused on the Percona Server for MySQL-based deployment variant. Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.40-43.

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SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

This article is the fifth part in a series about T-SQL bugs, pitfalls and best practices. However, this operator has a few shortcomings, among them an inherent design trap that can result in bugs in your code. Here I'll describe the trap, the potential bug, and a best practice that prevents the bug. 830 rows affected).

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SQL Performance

AUGUST 14, 2019

This article is the fourth installment in a series about T-SQL bugs, pitfalls and best practices. The focus of this month's article is bugs, pitfalls and best practices related to window functions. Often when people see such output for the first time, they think that SQL Server has a bug. There's a bug in the query.

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DZone

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Applications used in the field of Big Data process huge amounts of information, and this often happens in real time. Naturally, such applications must be highly reliable so that no error in the code can interfere with data processing. To achieve high reliability, one needs to keep a wary eye on the code quality of projects developed for this area.

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DZone

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Quality Assurance plays a vital role in software development. It helps the company in two ways: Deliver a high-quality product to your customers.

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Professor Beekums

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

Software bugs are an inevitable part of any complex application. The result is unintended behaviour in that software or a software bug. The human mind may be able to understand how an application works at a high level, but being able to have every detail floating around in your head is impossible.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 16, 2024

The shift-left approach aims to ensure bugs and other issues are discovered and addressed early in the development process, leading to improved software quality and lower costs associated with late-stage troubleshooting. On the other hand, well, we’ve all seen how many bugs can emerge when you least expect them to.

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