Similarity between bug report and a case on trial before the court!

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Sometimes logging a bug is like putting a case before the court.
In court, we talk about "air tight" cases. Similar is the case with bugs. In cases put on trial before the court, if there is any ambiguity in the facts, the case is summarily rejected. Similarly, we cannot log defects bases on "hunches". Hunches can be the "basis" of bugs. That is when we need to do our homework and make the case (the bug report) as tight as possible.

If I say that, in a particular scenario, the application is not working, then I should do my homework and find out what other scenarios it works and what all scenarios it wont work. This helps devs ( in fixing the issue) also .
The major advantage is that all the manifestations of the bug are fixed in one shot and no more time is spent by devs in fixing the same bug.

I have seen time and again, when a bug is logged, it is fixed for a particular scenario.Later on, the same bug is reopened or a new bug logged for another manifestation of the same issue in another scenario.

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