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Software Engineering vocabulary · Debugging and Troubleshooting

Steps to reproduce

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

phraseCommon term

In software engineering, steps to reproduce means: The 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.

In Turkish: tekrar oluşturma adımları, hatayı yeniden üretme adımları

How it is used

A standard section of bug report templates, usually next to 'Expected result' and 'Actual result', and written as a numbered list. Developers ask 'Do you have steps to reproduce?' or use the short forms STR and 'repro steps'.

Example sentences

  1. The ticket has no steps to reproduce, so I asked the customer for more details.

  2. Steps to reproduce: 1. Log in. 2. Open Settings. 3. Change the language to Turkish.

Common collocations

  • add steps to reproduce
  • clear steps to reproduce
  • repro steps
  • expected vs actual result
  • reproduceTo make a bug happen again on purpose by following the same steps, so that you can see it yourself and find its cause.
  • bug reportA written description of a problem in software, usually saying what happened, what should have happened and how to make it happen again.
  • bugA mistake in a program that makes it behave in a way nobody intended, such as showing wrong results, freezing or closing suddenly.
  • 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.

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