Better Bug Reports

Recently, one of our developers had a mini-rant about the new to properly document bugs in tickets. Apparently, writing “comments are broken” is incredibly unhelpful. Go figure. Of course, he’s dead right, without describing a problem completely it’s a hell of a lot harder to fix.

An alternate approach is presented in this oldie but goodie – a list of logbook entries between airline pilots and maintenance personnel.

Some of my favorites:

Problem as reported: Something loose in cockpit.
Service Response: Something tightened up in cockpit.

Problem as reported: Aircraft acting funny.
Service Response: Aircraft warned to “Straighten up, fly right and be serious.”

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Enjoy.

  • Andy M

    Great post.

    It’s a GREAT reason in a small company why you never let sales/marketing interact with developers and engineers.

    The mix is lethal.

    Spot on – keep up the great work, you have a new fan.

    Andy

  • http://www.rp0229.com/blog Rahul Pathak

    Some great lines from ‘Office Space’ are coming to mind. Thanks for the kudos.

    Rahul