QA & Software Testing
Bug Lifecycle & Triage
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- Your bug backlog has grown to over 800 open tickets that no one trusts or looks at anymore, and important bugs are getting lost in the noise. As a senior engineer asked to fix the triage process, not just the backlog, how would you approach it?
- What makes a bug report good enough that a developer can act on it without coming back to ask you questions?Go Pro
- Explain the difference between a bug's severity and its priority, and give an example where they don't line up.Go Pro
- Walk me through what makes a good bug report and how you'd handle a report that comes in with no way to reproduce it.Go Pro
- An engineer logs a checkout-page typo as Critical because customers can see it, and logs an intermittent data-corruption bug as Minor because it's rare and hard to reproduce. In triage, how do you reason about getting the severity and priority of these right, and why does the distinction matter?Go Pro
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