The Never Ending War of Software Constructors and Software Destructors
How many times we as developers curse about the fact that, the defect raised by a tester doesn’t have enough information to reproduce it in the local environment?! I guess, the answer is quite often. If we are dealing with a responsible tester, he/she will provide us with detailed steps, if they are also kind enough, we will in addition get some logs and screen shots, and there ends the matter. Then, we struggle to reproduce it most of the time and would sometimes retort with the most common statement, “Hey! It works in my environment.”, and reject the defect. Sometimes the ball endlessly moves to and fro between the 2 courts. Why are we still living in the era of our great grandfathers, when it comes to debugging defects? I know, most of us are aware of the tools like IntelliTrace that are available to deal with this exact problem. But, I rarely see even developers making use of this tool, to reduce their debugging effort locally, leave aside testers to provide it as par