{"id":2337,"date":"2024-08-11T08:07:20","date_gmt":"2024-08-11T12:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/marcom-team\/?page_id=2337"},"modified":"2025-09-03T17:39:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T21:39:01","slug":"reported-bugs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/marcom-team\/departments\/interactive-design\/common-processes\/reported-bugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Corresponding to Client-Reported Bugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes clients report bugs in the sites we build. Unfortunately, &#8220;it doesn&#8217;t work&#8221; or &#8220;I get an error&#8221; isn&#8217;t usually enough information to find and resolve a problem.<\/p>\n<p>We don&#8217;t send code to staging or live sites without having tested it in development (nm) already. Yes, sometimes things may not be finished (styled or functional) perfectly (and that&#8217;s the nature of development), but nothing should be broken.<\/p>\n<p>In these cases, there are two things we can convey to the clients:<\/p>\n<h5>1. Do a browser <em>hard refresh<\/em>, which is done differently depending on their browser:<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Windows and Linux browsers:<strong> CTRL + F5<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Apple Safari:<strong> SHIFT <\/strong>+ <strong>Reload<\/strong> toolbar button<\/li>\n<li>Chrome and Firefox for Mac: <strong>CMD + SHIFT <\/strong>+ <strong>R<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>2. Give us two pieces of vital information:<\/h5>\n<ol>\n<li>The <strong>full<\/strong> URL of the page where the problem is taking place.<br \/>\nex: <em>http:\/\/www-staging.bu.edu\/cas\/about<\/em><br \/>\nor: <em>http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=14024&amp;action=edit<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Their system &amp; browser information. Sometimes bugs can crop that only happen in certain browsers. Tell the client to visit <a href=\"http:\/\/whatsmybrowser.org\/\">http:\/\/whatsmybrowser.org\/<\/a>\u00a0 and then send us the URL in the box. This will tell us what their system and browser is so we can test the bug properly<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/marcom-team\/files\/2024\/08\/whatsmybrowser-1-636x457.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"457\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/marcom-team\/files\/2024\/08\/whatsmybrowser-1-636x457.png 636w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/marcom-team\/files\/2024\/08\/whatsmybrowser-1-150x107.png 150w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/marcom-team\/files\/2024\/08\/whatsmybrowser-1-768x552.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/marcom-team\/files\/2024\/08\/whatsmybrowser-1-1024x737.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/marcom-team\/files\/2024\/08\/whatsmybrowser-1-1536x1105.png 1536w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/marcom-team\/files\/2024\/08\/whatsmybrowser-1-2048x1474.png 2048w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/marcom-team\/files\/2024\/08\/whatsmybrowser-1-375x270.png 375w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/marcom-team\/files\/2024\/08\/whatsmybrowser-1-694x500.png 694w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/marcom-team\/files\/2024\/08\/whatsmybrowser-1-500x359.png 500w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/marcom-team\/files\/2024\/08\/whatsmybrowser-1-573x413.png 573w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/marcom-team\/files\/2024\/08\/whatsmybrowser-1-866x624.png 866w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/marcom-team\/files\/2024\/08\/whatsmybrowser-1-937x675.png 937w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/marcom-team\/files\/2024\/08\/whatsmybrowser-1-775x558.png 775w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/marcom-team\/files\/2024\/08\/whatsmybrowser-1-1172x844.png 1172w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/marcom-team\/files\/2024\/08\/whatsmybrowser-1-1500x1079.png 1500w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/marcom-team\/files\/2024\/08\/whatsmybrowser-1-600x431.png 600w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/marcom-team\/files\/2024\/08\/whatsmybrowser-1-496x357.png 496w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/marcom-team\/files\/2024\/08\/whatsmybrowser-1-750x539.png 750w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/marcom-team\/files\/2024\/08\/whatsmybrowser-1-1000x719.png 1000w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/marcom-team\/files\/2024\/08\/whatsmybrowser-1-1147x826.png 1147w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/marcom-team\/files\/2024\/08\/whatsmybrowser-1-1389x1000.png 1389w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/marcom-team\/files\/2024\/08\/whatsmybrowser-1-1733x1248.png 1733w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/marcom-team\/files\/2024\/08\/whatsmybrowser-1-992x714.png 992w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/marcom-team\/files\/2024\/08\/whatsmybrowser-1-1200x863.png 1200w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/marcom-team\/files\/2024\/08\/whatsmybrowser-1-1550x1116.png 1550w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/marcom-team\/files\/2024\/08\/whatsmybrowser-1-1875x1350.png 1875w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/marcom-team\/files\/2024\/08\/whatsmybrowser-1-550x395.png 550w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/marcom-team\/files\/2024\/08\/whatsmybrowser-1-710x511.png 710w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/marcom-team\/files\/2024\/08\/whatsmybrowser-1-400x287.png 400w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/marcom-team\/files\/2024\/08\/whatsmybrowser-1-300x215.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes clients report bugs in the sites we build. Unfortunately, &#8220;it doesn&#8217;t work&#8221; or &#8220;I get an error&#8221; isn&#8217;t usually enough information to find and resolve a problem. We don&#8217;t send code to staging or live sites without having tested it in development (nm) already. 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