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Diagnose the root cause of a software incident by capturing symptoms, reproduction steps, and impact, then generating and prioritizing hypotheses with defined tests to confirm or refute each one.

Hypothesis testing for software debugging is a structured method to rank potential root causes, apply tests to confirm or refute them, and ensure incident resolution is based on verifiable evidence rather than guesswork.

Plan a safe rollback by comparing temporary mitigations and permanent fixes based on cost, side-effect risk, and rollback ease, while explicitly defining rollback conditions and marking unproven assumptions as unverified.

The best way to compare mitigation and permanent fix options is to evaluate them by cost, verification depth, rollback ease, and side-effect risk, while indicating the verification status for each recommendation.

Yes, you can use this approach for software design, implementation, debugging, and runtime operational troubleshooting where reproducibility, verification, and rollback planning are required.

Marking unproven assumptions as unverified during incident diagnosis ensures that recommendations lacking sufficient evidence are clearly identified, reducing the risk of deploying fixes based on unconfirmed root causes.