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82 Bugs I Collected in a Year You Won’t Believe Made It to Production

Talkat Voxxed Days Zürich 2025 · on Tuesday, 2025-03-25· [testing, developer-experience]
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Title promises 82 but collector records 21 bugs found in production over ~two years, with 16 translation issues and a surprisingly large share of responsiveness and glitching faults. Examples: placeholders break a hotel booking and an email, stack traces and raw SQL leak to users, a currency rate shows 0.0058, a weather API returns 99,999 km/h. Preventive tactics list concrete fixes: unit/integration and parameterized tests, WebdriverIO/Playwright mobile E2E, dogfooding, exploratory testing, disable debug in prod and server‑side render translations.

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  1. 0:00Introduction
  2. 1:03Speaker intro
  3. 2:22Bug collection method
  4. 4:30Common bug categories
  5. 8:00Responsiveness with mobile first
  6. 11:54Templating issues fix
  7. 15:08Glitching and unexpected behavior
  8. 19:43String formatting edge cases
  9. 22:10Text key translation bugs
  10. 25:03Unfiltered error messages
  11. 29:00Debug info and SQL injection
  12. 30:26Validating incorrect or missing information
  13. 32:53Q&A
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