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What will you do if a bug continues to reproduce after being fixed?
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Answer from AI
- Verify the fix in the environment where the bug was originally found, and in other relevant environments (e.g., staging, production).
- Check logs and system metrics to understand if the bug can be reproduced at the infrastructure or data level.
- Study the fix code to ensure the correctness of the logic and absence of side effects.
- Analyze commit and deployment history to exclude rollback of the fix.
- Contact the developer who made the fix for joint analysis of the problem and to find reasons for the re-occurrence.
- Check requirements and usage scenarios related to the bug to ensure they are fully covered by the fix.
- If the bug reproduces only under certain conditions, try to reproduce them as accurately as possible.
- Create a new bug report with a detailed description of the reproduction conditions and steps.
- Suggest possible hypotheses for the reasons for re-occurrence (e.g., incomplete fix, change conflicts, caching issues, specific data).
- Participate in root cause analysis and testing of the new fix.