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Some thoughts on writing a better bug report.


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I think I can safely say for everyone who has pre-ordered this game, we all want this game as bug free as possible on release. And, I suspect most of us want this game bug free like now. Having done some research into how professionals go about writing bug reports and how developers like bug reports, it seems that there are styles and forms of writing which make finding bugs in the code easier for a developer. The easier it is for a developer to find a bug, the easier it is to squash it. Now, not being a professional QA or tester (any professional QAs/testers among us other than Matthew?) what I thought I'd do is post some links to sites which talk about writing up bug reports so that those among us who write bug reports can have a look and see if they can use any of the advice and guidance in writing their own bug reports. Here we go!

An essay on writing bug reports in general. Can get philsophical, not all of it useful.

Very detailled, most of it useful for here, but quite formal. Too formal, perhaps?

This is from writing bug reports for World of Warcraft, but you can take a lot from it to apply here.

An example taken from generic software bug writeups.

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