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Identifying bugs

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Identifying bugs

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- [Instructor] The moment we start to test a product we recognize we are going to encounter problems. I've been testing for more than 25 years and I can't think of a single project over the hundreds, if not thousands of products I've tested where we didn't discover a lot of bugs. I've worked with a lot of amazing companies, and some of the best developers in the industry. Software development is complicated, and good products have a lot of working parts. Putting it plainly, every product has issues. It's inevitable during the development process that things don't go as planned. And the byproduct of this are bugs. Bugs, at their core, are objective, empirical observations. This means that you are not placing any of your own feelings about the product, the software's value, or your own ideas into your bugs. You are simply reporting the issues as they reveal themselves to you as you test. Good bug authors know what to look for…

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