How to Reproduce Unreproducible Bug?

by Nataliia Vasylyna | March 28, 2014 10:00 am

Intermittent and unreproducible software bugs complicate work of testers. The most sophisticated intermittent errors usually occur in course of mobile application testing.

As a rule, few defects can be unreproducible for a skilled, experienced tester, but searching for explanation and steps to reproduce for an intermittent error[1] can be quite a difficult task for a novice tester.

However some software bugs found during web, desktop or mobile testing are hard to reproduce and to explain even for software testing experts. In this case a software testing company recommends its testers to reconsider their work and try to look at the situation with a fresh perspective.

When it Seems Impossible to Reproduce an Error it is Needed:

It is also helpful to utilize some investigative methods performing software testing. One of them assumes add or exclude one or several factors at a time and see how this influences frequency of the intermittent defect[2] occurrence.

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Endnotes:
  1. intermittent error: https://blog.qatestlab.com/2014/03/26/how-to-find-explanation-of-an-intermittent-error/
  2. defect: https://blog.qatestlab.com/2011/10/11/main-types-of-defects-in-software-testing/
  3. Peculiarities of Software Bug Reproducibility: https://blog.qatestlab.com/2014/03/14/what-are-peculiarities-of-software-bugs-reproducibility/
  4. What is the price of a software bug?: https://blog.qatestlab.com/2016/03/31/what-tester-does/
  5. What Is the Biggest Bug Producer?: https://blog.qatestlab.com/2016/03/30/biggest-bug-producer/

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