Skilled Bug Investigation Illustrated - Severity of the problem

In a presentation titled Skilled Testers and Their Enemies, James Bach identifies the steps involved in skilled bug investigation:



The following post is part of a 13-part series illustrating those points using A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle.




How severe could the problem be?

“Any delay in arresting the assassin,” I observed, “might give him time to perpetrate some fresh atrocity.”