Talk
IndiaFOSS 2024
Building an Open developer-friendly bug-reporting tool
Session Description
Introduction
- Developers spend 25% of their time debugging issues and most of the time gathering context and information.
- What’s missing in JIRA, Linear
- Bug reporting isn’t a solution; it is a cumbersome process
What is a perfect bug report
- Explain what a developer-friendly bug report means.
- How much time does it take to create a perfect bug report
- Ask - How to make it faster?
Challenges in bug reporting
- Explain different challenges, like some Issues are hard to reproduce
- Issue reproduced only once
- Issues happen only on my machine
- Too manual of a process to include the complete information like Writing Steps to Reproduce and Recording Loom Video
- Explain the different challenges and communication issues between devs and QAs
How is open-source software taking on this problem?
- Introduce SessionBear
- How it combines all the information - Video, console logs, network logs, etc in a single session
- Explain the Tech behind it
Why Open
- Explain levels of Customizations
- Giving back to the community
- Security
Why Security is important?
- Explain why security is important
- Explain what levers can be used to solve security constraints
Conclusion
- How it impacts the future
- How much time it saves Devs and QAs
- Ending Quote. - “Ship Quality Software Faster”