If you are reporting a bug against LabVIEW (or any other product, for
that matter) and you're using Windows 7, today I learned about a
feature that might be helpful.
Windows 7 includes a built-in mechanism for recording every mouse
click/keystroke and screenshot that you do while recording. The feature
is called the "Problem Steps Recorder."
I was going to write about it, but I found this blog post online that walks through the details better than I could.
http://www.istartedsomething.com/20090111/windows-7-problem-steps-recorder-miracle-tool/
If you've got a particularly hard to reproduce bug, rather than typing
out all the steps to reproduce, and maybe forgetting something subtle
but important, you can use the Problem Steps Recorder to create an
mhtml file and submit that file as part of your bug report. That gives
developers who evaluate your bug report an exact play-by-play of what
you did and how the bug was created.
Although probably overkill for most bug reports, I figure this might help some of the more complex situations.
