Weekly overview of the bug-hunting category- week 66, 2019

This is a report on the weekly contributions to the bug hunting category. The post contains basic stats like the number of contributions received by the category, an excerpt on new contributors if there are any and a detailed comparison of the week's output with previous weeks.

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Previous Reports

2018

2019

Bug hunting contributions summary

Week 66: March 28th - April 4th

26 Contributions, 23 scored higher than 0
An average score of 53.37
12 unique contributors
No Staff Pick
No new contributors

The contributions

Contributor	URL	Project	Reviewer	Score
@harry-heightz	the-app-freezes-randomly	esteem mobile	tobias-g	37.5
@horpey	reblog-option-on-reblogged-posts	esteem mobile	tobias-g	41
@jubreal	player-crashes-when-trying-to-edit-song-information	open blade player	tobias-g	85
@dare-wealth	the-theme-section-does-not-does-not-change-when-a-change-is-initiated	bop music player	tobias-g	41
@horpey	author-and-benefactor-rewards-shows-only-sbd-payouts-in-wallet	esteem mobile	fego	45.5
@ckole	can-t-comment-on-posts-if-esteem-is-accessed-through-post-links-on-discord	esteem mobile	fego	42.5
@nasirshah1813	different-options-in-the-setting-are-not-displayed-in-secreen-rotate-mode	bop music player	fego	0
@nasirshah1813	sign-in-using-steemconnect-option-not-working-properly	1ramp	tobias-g	0
@rufans	crashes-while-signing-in	systers mentorship	tobias-g	50
@mightypanda	power-down-amount-is-showing-as-0-in-wallet	busy.org	tobias-g	48
@rufans	couldnt-find-my-account	dappknownoriginio	tobias-g	41
@horpey	vote-value-and-number-of-voters-are-not-displayed-on-comments	esteem mobile	tobias-g	33
@horpey	visiting-a-steem-link-through-the-app-opens-the-post-randomly	esteem mobile	fego	57
@rufans	app-isnt-installing-after-downloading-the-apk-from-the-release-pag	goodtime	fego	48
@louis88	transfers-in-notifications-are-not-displayed-correctly	esteem surfer	tobias-g	48
@harry-heightz	app-crashed-when-i-tried-to-visit-a-user-blog-and-entered-their-username-starting-the-first-alphabet-of-the-name-with-capital-letter	insteem	fego	80
@harry-heightz	the-app-crashed-when-i-checked-the-followingfollowers-list-of-my-followers	insteem	fego	80
@harry-heightz	app-crashed-when-i-checked-out-profile-of-users-from-the-trend	insteem	fego	80
@mcyusuf	search-page-is-displayed-when-trying-to-load-a-user-s-blog-page	insteem	fego	48
@eastmael	beta-should-close-login-page-after-log-in-from-wallet-page-mobile-viewport	steemitwallet	fego	48
@tony-duke	following-wallet-and-activity-on-knacksteem-user-profile-not-clicking	knacksteem	fego	0
@jubreal	app-crashes-when-trying-to-set-song-as-ringtone	shuttle player	fego	72.5
@jubreal	app-crashes-when-tag-editor-is-used	shuttle player	fego	59.5
@jubreal	app-crashes-when-go-to-artist-is-clicked-on	shuttle player	fego	59.5
@macspeaks	back-button-refreshes-and-goes-to-top-of-the-page	1ramp	fego	37.5
@darewealth	bird-disappeared-when-game-is-re-launched	storklight	tobias-g	45

In the last week, we had 26 contributions to the bug-hunting category at utopian-io. There were no staff picks. 23 of the contributions were scored above 0.

The highest scored contribution was by @jubreal. He observed and reported a crash involving the app - blade player. You can read the details of this report in full here.

Weekly Average Score and number of Contributions

Chart breakdown:

The average score for this week is 53.37
This week's average is lower than the 4-week average of 57.45 by 4.08
It is lower than last week's average of 57.45 by 4.13

Hunter Totals and Average

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This week we had 12 unique contributors, 4 more than the number we had last week
There were 4 reports from @harry-heightz, @jubrael and @horpey, 3 by @rufans, 2 by @darewealth and @sagorahmed. 1 each from the other 4 contributors.
@harry-heightz is presently the category's top contributor with 35 finds. That is 35 finds since the start of the year.
@blockchainstudio has a 4 week average of 73.5, making him the contributor with the highest average score.
8 of the contributions were scored higher than the week's average

Reports Reviewed By Reviewer

The category has received 177 contributions this year, 2019. 159 were rewarded and scored higher than 0. However, in the past 4 weeks there were 59 bug reports scored higher than 0. These 59 were assessed by 2 reviewers.

Average review scores in the past 4 weeks

@fego has reviewed 41 contributions with an average score of 58.95.
@tobias-g has reviewed 18 contributions with an average score of 54.02.

Common Mistakes And How To Fix Them

I will be highlighting the common mistakes found this week, and I will be offering tips on how to avoid them in future contributions. The tips will depend solely on the scores received by the contributions in a particular week.

1. Contributions scored 0

The issue you reported is OS related and is therefore not the application's fault. The operating system does not support this particular feature

My advice for cases like this is - wait for the PO to affirm your observations. I know most times the project owners are too busy and do not respond in reasonable time and so you are pushed to post on utopian without them first acknowledging whether an observed behavior is a bug or an intended. It can be frustrating but I'd still advise that hunters in the future should wait for the PO's thoughts, especially in cases where the details behind the implementation in question are sketchy.

2. Contributions with a score below 40

The severity level of the bug was marked as negligible.

Submission of cosmetic or trivial UI issues (phone orientation, phone locking/unlocking etc.) that have a negligible effect on the functionality of the application may lead to a lower score of your contribution, thus reducing your chances of receiving a reward

If what you spotted is a discrepancy in the user interface or just the front end appearance of the software, then it is most probably a trivial bug and would be scored as such. So make sure to look out for this.
Also, there are times when a contribution is scored negligible because the expected behavior of a particular feature could still be achieved by a default option. For example - while some third party camera apps may not work when used for uploading within other applications (probably because the PATH for that particular cam app is not set), the default android cam works. It will be particularly stressful and redundant to have the project owner set a unique PATH for every cam application out there. This is one thing a contributor should look out for.

Other News

This is to inform contributors and the general public that while reports will be accepted to projects outside the whitelist, they will only be reviewed if the issue opened is acknowledged by the project owner or maintainer.

While the new guidelines are yet to be officially announced, bug-hunters and open source enthusiasts looking to help open source projects, please take a look at our whitelist of projects that you can submit bug reports for:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1S7ayFTEy5CBMyeJvFRgq5JUjlqZxFjWAWhhrBL0GC60/edit#gid=1954068373

If you wish to have your open source projects added to our whitelist you can contact us on our help channel at our discord server. You can also leave your questions and comments below :)

Thanks

@fego