How do you reproduce bugs that occur sporadically?

Question

We have a bug in our application that does not occur every time and therefore we don\'t know its \"logic\". I don\'t even get it reproduced in 100 times today.

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Answer 1

What development environment? For C++, your best bet may be VMWare Workstation record/replay, see: http://stackframe.blogspot.com/2007/04/workstation-60-and-death-of.html

Other suggestions include inspecting the stack trace, and careful code overview... there is really no silver bullet :)