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How to make the software you love better by writing bug reports.


Full article.

After having worked at Lucid Software doing QA (quality assurance) for the past year, I have learned two big things in regards to software development:

  1. Software improves at a much quicker rate when bug reports are filed.
  2. Not all bug reports are created equal. Only high quality bug reports actually get resolved.
The takeaways I have from this are that as end users, we actually have the ability to improve the overall quality of software by helping to find and report bugs, and that if we really want to help, we need to make sure that we actually write and effective bug report.

Saying "this does not work" is not only worthless, but also counterproductive as it is annoying and a waste of time to the developer of the software. If we really want to help, we need to learn the most effective way to write a bug report.

Here is the full article I wrote for the steps that you need to take to write a bug report that actually gets resolved:

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