There are 3 types of defects: the bad implementation, the missing feature, & the dev added extra feature. #testing #softwaretesting

— SoftwareTesting Book (@testingbook) 2 janvier 2016

History

• 2011 – Moth in the machine: Debugging the origins of ‘bug’
• 2018 – Term “Bug”- Fort Myers & Thomas Edison – Delvis Echeverria

Definitions

• Defects are Good – Randall Rice
• 2011 – Spec Checking and Bug Blindness – Iain McCowatt
• 2012 – Problems with Problems – Michael Bolton
• 2014 – I’ve Had It With Defects – Michael Bolton
• 2017 – Complexity is also a Bug – Joel Montvelisky

Teams that believe bugs are “just a reality of software development” tend to have a significantly higher number of bugs.

— Doc Norton (@DocOnDev) 19 juillet 2016

Why do they exist?

• 2006 – Why we all sell code with bugs – Eric Sink
• 2009 – Why bugs don’t get fixed – Alan Page

One way to describe a bug: a bug is an inconsistency between what something (or someone) does and what someone wants, or claims to want.

— Michael Bolton (@michaelbolton) 25 juin 2016

Good practices

• 2004 – One in a million is next Tuesday – Larry Osterman
• 2010 – Thinking about bugs – Alan Page
• 2016 – Death to bug advocacy – Andrew Fraser
• 2016 – REACT to Bugs – Brendan Connolly
• 2017 – Traiter ses bugs : essentiel mais pas si simple ! [FR] – Christopher Parola
• 2017 – Should developers verify their own bug fixes? – Kim Knup
• 2018 – What is Root Cause Analysis?

Logging bugs

• 2016 – How to log bugs the Google way: The ACC Methodology
• 2018 – How to Write a Good Bug Report, use RIMGEN – Chris Kenst

What if there is no such thing as an Error,
only “case which requires a decision at a higher-level, possibly even a human”

— Jessica Kerr (@jessitron) 8 décembre 2017