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World Congress 2025 • Aug 20, 2025 • Session details

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

François Martin

One engineer documented hundreds of production UI bugs. These glaring defects carry severe business risks. Discover proactive testing strategies to eliminate costly front-end leaks.

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#1 about 9 min

Bizarre software defects discovered in live production environments

Observing live application faults demonstrates how basic data formatting errors degrade end-user experiences.

#2 about 3 min

Tracking the frequency of software defects over time

Visualizing defect accumulation over a multi-year period uncovers unpredictable spikes in live deployment issues.

#3 about 3 min

Categorizing the most common production software UI defects

Categorizing collected runtime deviations demonstrates that superficial rendering errors outnumber complex backend logic faults.

#4 about 8 min

Mitigating UI responsiveness bugs via mobile-first testing strategies

Adopting mobile-first design and end-to-end device emulation prevents blocking UI misalignments.

#5 about 7 min

Addressing unpredictable UI glitches through dogfooding and monitoring

Leveraging dogfooding and heat map visualizers helps catch chaotic rendering errors before users experience them.

#6 about 3 min

Preventing unresolved templating errors with automated string assertions

Implementing unit tests to verify placeholder resolution avoids displaying broken strings to end users.

#7 about 3 min

Securing unfiltered error messages against infrastructure information leaks

Hiding production stack traces and mapping internal backend errors to generic user messages closes critical security vectors.

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Preventing catastrophic failures in high-stakes software

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The impact of minor user interface bugs on trust

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Embracing failures and analyzing high-profile software engineering mistakes

Christian Seifert · WWC 2022

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Financial and human costs of software defects

Evelyn Haslinger · LIVE

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