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2 · Senior QA judgment
Escape analysis and production incidents
16 min · Module 14
When a bug reaches production, senior QA leads a blameless escape analysis: Where could we have caught it?
Lab practice: deploy 1.1.0-rc, catch or miss search breakage, then write the report you would send after an escape.
Example / notes
# Escape analysis notes template:
# - Symptom & customer impact
# - First detected where (prod/monitor/support)?
# - Why missed in QA (gap in cases, env parity, timebox, wrong layer)?
# - Detection idea (test, assert, metric, alert)
# - Preventive action + ownerPractice in Lab: /lab/work/