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Bug Report Prompt Generator

Suggests a question to check your bug report actually answers — exact steps, environment, expected versus actual — so someone else can reproduce it without asking follow-up questions.

What you'll get

This generator draws from a hand-checked list of 12 entries. Here is a spread of 6 of them, so you can see the style before you generate:

  • Write the exact steps to reproduce, numbered, starting from a clean state.
  • Note whether the bug happens every time, or only sometimes.
  • Attach or describe the exact error message, not a paraphrase of it.
  • Describe the smallest input that still triggers the bug.
  • Note whether a workaround currently exists.
  • Check whether the bug already has an existing report before filing a new one.

A fixed sample of the list, not a live draw — your own results are picked at random from all 12, without repeating until the list runs out. Original authoring for Generate Random — general bug-report quality prompts.. Last reviewed 2026-07-18.

How to use this tool

  1. Press generate for a prompt.
  2. Check your report against it, or generate again.

Common use cases

  • Improving bug-report quality
  • QA reporting checklist
  • Triage-ready ticket writing

Limitations and good to know

  • 12 fixed prompts covering general reproducibility gaps — they cannot check whether your particular report's steps are technically correct, only whether the report structure is complete.
  • A prompt only asks the question; it does not know what information you already included, so some prompts will already be answered in a good report and can be skipped.
  • Nothing here files, formats or submits a report — it is a checklist to work through before you do.

Practical tips

  • Always include what you expected as well as what happened; a report with only the second half needs a conversation before it can be worked on.
  • Give the exact steps rather than a summary of them — a bug nobody can reproduce is a bug nobody can fix.

Entries are chosen with your browser's cryptographic random number generator, so every entry on the list is equally likely. How Generate Random works.

Frequently asked questions

What's the single most common thing missing from bug reports?
Exact reproduction steps, specifically — a report that says a feature 'sometimes fails' without the precise sequence that triggers it forces whoever picks it up to guess. Writing the steps as a numbered list, in the order you actually performed them, is the single change that most improves a report's usefulness.

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