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How to un-bug your application

DEV Community·Julia Shevchenko·25 days ago
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It's probably a professional bias, but I notice bugs A LOT . And often they prevent me from using some software. Last week, I wanted to shop for some clothes online and spotted several bugs in key functionality, and one of them was critical. The support chat window was buggy, the page with size tables shows plain HTML, and the most ridiculous - I wasn't able to submit a purchase, because adding an address endpoint returns 500. And it was a world-famous brand. The support asked me to send them my email and password so they could do a purchase for me - very secure - and still won't work. Then today I was checking out one of the job-searching platforms from the top 3 in Google search results and couldn't add my current location on one of the onboarding steps - they have CORS issues for that request. My favorite example: not being able to approve an identity for a bank account for more than 6 months because of a bug in the form validation. The truth is that having bugs is an absolutely normal state.…

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