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Software Engineering vocabulary · Debugging and Troubleshooting

Bug report

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

nounCore term

In software engineering, bug report means: A written description of a problem in software, usually saying what happened, what should have happened and how to make it happen again.

In Turkish: hata raporu, hata bildirimi

How it is used

Filed by testers, users or developers in a tracker such as Jira or GitHub Issues. A good bug report includes steps to reproduce, expected and actual behavior, environment details, and screenshots or logs. You file, triage or close a bug report.

Example sentences

  1. Thanks for the detailed bug report; I could reproduce the issue in two minutes.

  2. We got three bug reports about the checkout page after the release.

Common collocations

  • file a bug report
  • detailed bug report
  • bug report template
  • triage bug reports
  • bugA mistake in a program that makes it behave in a way nobody intended, such as showing wrong results, freezing or closing suddenly.
  • steps to reproduceThe exact list of actions someone must take to make a bug appear again, written in a bug report so a developer can see the problem for themselves.
  • ticketA record in a tracking tool such as Jira that describes one piece of work, like a bug, task or feature, and shows who owns it and its status.
  • reproduceTo make a bug happen again on purpose by following the same steps, so that you can see it yourself and find its cause.

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