The Bug You Can't Reproduce Is Usually the Worst One

The simple version A bug you can&rsquo;t reproduce isn&rsquo;t a bug that didn&rsquo;t happen. It&rsquo;s a bug whose conditions you don&rsquo;t yet understand well enough to recreate. Why reproducibility is the wrong goalpost When a bug report comes in and the engineering team can&rsquo;t reproduce it, the instinct is to close the ticket. &ldquo;Cannot reproduce&rdquo; is a legitimate status in…