Works well in my machine

Ministry of testing recently tweeted to "Write a sad test story in 3 words..."

One of the tweet was "Works for me" which a tester hears often when the defect is reproducible in the Developer's environment or Team Dev Environment.

To explore and improve the perspective on Product environment while testing, try the mnemonic

CIDTESTD (Kid Tested)

Project Environment Heuristics by James Bach

Customers, Information, Developer Relations, Team, Equipment & Tools, Schedule, Test Items, Deliverables

https://www.developsense.com/articles/2005-09-StayingOnTheCriticalPath.pdf

For Example -

I had recently installed Eclipse, when I started the software, Eclipse exited with code of 13 and found that the reason is because of different versions

• OS (32 or 64 bit)
• Java (32 or 64 bit)

It is better to understand the product environment matrix and plan for the test environment.