Bug reports

Questions 1 to 5 of 8

1. 1. A teammate sends this bug report: > Title: Broken > My average function gives the wrong answer. Please help. What is the most important thing missing?

   A minimal example, plus the exact input and the exact outputA friendly greeting at the start of the messageA guess at which line of the code has the bugA list of every file in the project
2. 2. A report says only: 'My code does not run.' What should it add so the reader can see the problem?

   A screenshot of the editor windowA summary such as 'it fails with a bracket problem'The full syntax error text, including the caret lineThe name of the editor theme you use
3. 3. Put these steps for shrinking a program to a minimal example in order.

   Use the arrows to put the steps in order.

   1. 1.Run it. If the bug still happens, keep the removal; if not, put the piece back↑↓
   2. 2.Repeat until removing anything else makes the bug disappear↑↓
   3. 3.Remove one piece you think is not involved↑↓
   4. 4.Copy the full program into a new file↑↓
4. 4. What does this print? ``python def average(numbers): total = 0 for n in numbers[1:]: total += n return total / len(numbers) print(average([2, 4, 6, 8, 10])) ``

   6.05.67.028
5. 5. True or false: a screenshot of a crash is as good as pasting the error text, because a reader can read the picture.

   True, because a reader can see the same words in an imageFalse, because a screenshot cannot be searched, copied into a test, or read by a screen readerTrue, because screenshots always show the full tracebackFalse, because screenshots are never allowed in a bug report