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Hmm... maybe not the future but useful part of the process? Like screenshots, only at 10fps and with audio!?

• InclinedPlane 15y ago
  Sure, quite useful. Let's say a tester has some fairly complicated steps to repro a particularly nasty bug. So complex that writing down the steps correctly would take perhaps a half an hour. So they use the super useful feature of their bug report system to make a video of the repro steps. Shortly thereafter the bug is handed off to a dev. who quickly fixes it. Meanwhile, the tester spent that extra 30 minutes being productive, finding bugs they wouldn't have had time to before and increasing the quality of the product overall. Then 3 months later a checkin causes the bug to regress. And a different tester in a different team files a different bug report. Since the repro steps aren't searchable (being in video form) it's not easy to determine that this bug is a duplicate of the older bug, or that it's even a regression at all instead of a newly discovered bug. The bug then gets handed off to a different dev. who fixes it. Now you've saved 30 minutes of time for one tester but you've taken away who knows how many hours of tester time, triage (or release or management) team time, and developer time. Repeat ad infinitum. Video repros are useful, and they save effort, but perhaps they come at a cost that shouldn't be ignored.