InfoQ Culture Methods

JANUARY 27, 2023

This allows teams to find more bugs (by making sure that bug-dense areas are tested) in less time (by reducing the executions of tests that are very unlikely to detect bugs). This article presents better solutions that employ data from the system under test and the tests themselves to optimize testing efforts.

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Tandem

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Without that flexibility, things get tricky when a hotfix (code to fix an urgent bug on Production) has to go out between releases, or while multiple releases are being worked on at once. Meanwhile, several hotfixes are going out — we found a bug in Production that requires a dependency to update. I sure haven’t.).

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OverOps

AUGUST 10, 2018

In the event that something goes wrong, it’s easier to look back at the changes made over time and connect them to bugs and errors when they appear. Eventually, the linear path of building new features and fixing bugs is bound to clash with the parallel development of another feature by another team or hotfixes or a number of other things.

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Kaseya

MARCH 9, 2021

Software vendors issue patches for two primary reasons: to fix functional bugs and to remediate security vulnerabilities that could be exploited by hackers. There are several different kinds of patch releases including hotfixes, security patches and service packs. Functional bugs can also cause system downtime.

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CloudGeometry

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

hotfix, rollback, fix forward, patch) Go ahead and try the survey yourself here ; it takes less than 2 minutes. This doesn’t make all the hard work of metrics, instrumentation, architectural improvement, time boxing, test automation, bug remediation counts, CI/CD Automation, production readiness (and more) go away.

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Mentormate

JANUARY 18, 2022

In the past 24 months, the Google team and Flutter community have accomplished the following: Provided over 20,000 bug fixes and performance enhancements to their platform. Flutter Has a Proven History of Steady Improvement. Slow and steady wins the race every time. Improved dev tools for debugging and identification of performance problems.

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Apiumhub

JULY 10, 2022

Normally in dev teams used for quick bug fixes (hotfixes) under release stages, or when there are needs to apply not merged commits. Going through commits you can easily find bad commit, were possible introduced some error/bug. Undoing changes and restoring lost commits. git cherry-pick is used for this purpose.

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Mentormate

JANUARY 2, 2021

Occasionally, code reviews can also catch bugs even before the issue is transitioned to a quality assurance analyst saving precious time during the development process. It accounts for all possible scenarios like hotfixes, code freezing and others. Pro: Better Control Over the Source. Pro: Better Release Process.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

OCTOBER 14, 2019

The book Real-World Bug Hunting by Peter Yaworski is a field guide to finding software vulnerabilities. It explains what ethical hacking is, explores common vulnerability types, explains how to find them, and provides suggestions for reporting bugs while getting paid for doing so. By Ben Linders, Peter Yaworski.

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Modus Create

APRIL 25, 2022

Decentralizing the security process allows developers to catch bugs quickly and prevent them from making it to production. These capabilities strengthened the client’s security posture, allowing them to detect and remediate security issues earlier in the process, preventing expensive re-releases and hotfixes.

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CircleCI

JUNE 30, 2022

SolarWinds did not discover the breach until December 2020, prompting recalls, hotfixes, and an advisory to customers. In the SolarWinds attack between March and June 2020, an estimated 18,000 customers on the Orion platform, including a number of US government agencies, downloaded updates that were injected with malicious code.

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Codegiant

AUGUST 15, 2021

You’d be shocked to know that delayed feature releases, multiple bug occurrences, late fixes, and the inability to meet the deadlines topped the list. And for every new feature they deliver, there’s a high probability of new bug occurrences. new bugs can occur at any point in time. Trust me?—?new

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Codegiant

AUGUST 15, 2021

” You’d be shocked to know that delayed feature releases, multiple bug occurrences, late fixes, and the inability to meet the deadlines topped the list. And for every new feature they deliver, there’s a high probability of new bug occurrences. Trust me — new bugs can occur at any point in time.

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James Shore

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

If you were pressured to release early, or had a lot of bugs or hotfixes, choose the date that represents your real release—the final release where the software was actually done—so your forecasts will represent the time your team really needs. Did you have to add new stories to fix bugs in the last four iterations or weeks?

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