Bug Reporting – BleepingBugs https://bleepingbugs.com Candid Takes On QA Tue, 02 Jun 2026 06:03:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://bleepingbugs.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/cropped-bb_IconOnly_transparent_bg-1-32x32.webp Bug Reporting – BleepingBugs https://bleepingbugs.com 32 32 How to Build the “Imperfect” QA Process https://bleepingbugs.com/how-to-build-the-imperfect-qa-process/ Sun, 24 May 2026 17:51:35 +0000 https://bleepingbugs.com/?p=809 When I got my first QA Engineer job out of college at a small financial company, I did what any new grad would do. I googled “QA process.” Then I googled “what should a QA process look like.” Then I googled “how to build a QA process from scratch.” I read a lot of articles. I got a lot of frameworks with a lot of boxes and arrows. None of it told me what to actually do on Monday morning.

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]]> How to Write a Good Functional Bug Report https://bleepingbugs.com/how-to-write-a-good-functional-bug-report/ Tue, 12 May 2026 04:43:48 +0000 https://bleepingbugs.com/?p=669 When I started in QA, I thought I had bug reports figured out. Steps to reproduce. Expected result. Actual result. Screenshot. Every tutorial said the same thing, so I did the same thing. Felt solid. Then I joined a company that used freelance testers. Video attachments were mandatory — not recommended, mandatory. The reasoning was blunt: you can’t fake a video. A screenshot proves nothing…

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]]> A Bug Report Is How You Communicate Risk https://bleepingbugs.com/a-bug-report-is-how-you-communicate-risk/ Fri, 28 Apr 2023 02:33:30 +0000 https://bleepingbugs.com/?p=35 Most QAs think reporting a bug means opening Jira. And sure, Jira works. But that framing limits your options. A bug is just information about a risk — here’s something wrong, here’s how bad it could be, here’s what we should do about it. And information doesn’t care how it travels. As long as the right person receives it clearly and can act on it, you’ve done your job.

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