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Bug reporting is the process of sending a description describing the problem encountered, the state of the system at the time, and possible other data to enable the problem to be resolved.

Bug reporting is the process of sending a description describing the problem encountered, the state of the system at the time, and possible other data to enable the problem to be resolved.

This report can contain specific hardware information as well as the steps taken to encounter the bug with attachments of error messages if any.

There is a multitude of software and services available to facilitate bug reporting, as well as numerous philosophies regarding how reports should be gathered, triaged, and resolved.

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Issues and contribution for Volley

Since there was this awesome presentation on Volley I tried to include it in a project I am working on. I found myself correcting some bugs I found in the source code that was published. Does anybody know if there is gonna be some GitHub project…
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Explicit specialization in non-namespace scope does not compile in GCC

The following code compiles in Clang but does not in GCC: template struct Widget { template void foo(U) { } template<> void foo(int*) { } }; According to the C++ standard ([temp.expl.spec],…
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Best Practices for Error Logging and/or reporting for iPhone

When I do web development, I use a custom made logger that catches fatal errors and appends a trace to a file and displays a message to the user. I can occasionally glance to see if the file changed, which means, some user encountered an error and…
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How to integrate Problem Steps Recorder (psr) in my application?

Windows 7 has a wonderful facility called problem steps recorder. You can start it by typing psr on the command line. What's the best way to integrate this into a Delphi application? And is there a COM automation interface for psr? I want…
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Why does IPAddress.MapToIPv4() throw ArgumentOutOfRangeException?

This code throws an ArgumentOutOfRangeException on the last line var initAddress = IPAddress.Parse("1.65.128.190"); var ipv6Address = initAddress.MapToIPv6(); Assert.IsTrue(ipv6Address.IsIPv4MappedToIPv6); var ipv4Address =…
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SVG stroke-dasharray offset not consistent

I have a series of circles with borders comprised of smaller circles which I will call 'dots'. I am then animating the circles by rotating them with CSS3's transform, each by either 5 or 15 degrees (alternating) more than the last starting with the…
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Where is the correct place to report a bug in SQL Server?

I have found a fairly insignificant bug in SQL Server 2008. I would like to report this to Microsoft, however, when I went to https://support.microsoft.com/ I realized that I may need to spend $300 CAD to report it. Is there a place where I can…
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How to instruct users to report a bug in Android

How do you instruct users to report a bug in Android? Any advice or tips? I'd like to get send detailed instructions to my users to get the most of their bug report. I know there are various apps that send bug reports from the device and I was…
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Which is the best tool for finding bugs in the Java code?

I would like to know which tool is best for finding any kind of bugs in my code. I know this may be some what theoretical or never ending question so I would like to modify it in terms of the efficiency of bug reporting (including the naming…
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Using class based generic view DetailView with a ModelForm reveals a bug - how to proceed?

I've been impressed how rapidly a functional website can go together with generic views in the tutorials. Also, the workflow for form processing is nice. I used the ModelForm helper class to create a form from a model I made and was delighted to see…
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How do you encourage end users to fill out trouble tickets?

So, I work in a fairly small IT section. We have a trouble ticketing system that about half of our end users use. Some of my coworkers don't really do much to encourage our end users to use the system we have in place. The end result? Constant…
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iOS Safari scrolls down when interacting with video.js player

Safari on iOS (10.3) jumping (scrolls down) when closing video.js player popup menu by clicking on menu button the second time. How to reproduce: https://codepen.io/mkhazov/full/PjBJvb/. Open this pen in Safari on iPhone or xcode simulator.…
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Getting data from the browser's console using javascript

I don't know if this has been asked before, but what i'd like to be able to do is get data from the error console within the browser itself(if it supports it) this would be for when a user sends off a bug report it'd pull up any errors related to…
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Confirm This Standard Library Bug Relating to Allocators in MSVC 2015 RC

Here is a SSCCE: #include #include template struct my_allocator : std::allocator { //This overriding struct causes the error template struct rebind { typedef my_allocator other; }; …
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Where do I report a Windows core library problem?

How do I let Microsoft know about a problem I've found in one of their core library routines? Do they have a central repository to report these things? I am not a member of Microsoft Development Network (MSDN). Or should I even bother?
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