Bug Reporting and Triage Questions

Practices for documenting, prioritizing, and managing defects from discovery through resolution. Candidates should be able to write concise and actionable bug reports that include a clear title, environment and configuration details, exact steps to reproduce, test data, expected versus actual behavior, and supporting artifacts such as logs and screenshots. Topics include assessing severity and priority, identifying duplicates, reproducing intermittent failures, linking defects to user stories or tests, and deciding when to escalate or defer fixes based on risk and release timing. Candidates should also describe triage workflows, collaboration with developers and product owners, use of issue tracking systems, and methods to reduce noisy or flaky reports through root cause analysis and automation.