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Bighams' Law is named after Doug Bigham of Intel Corporation who in 1998 noticed that the proximity of the developer to the validation engineer who discovered a defect directly affected the testers ability to reproduce the issue, or the severity of the issue. Another observation was that if a Developer were to take a vacation, a showstopper would be detected in the developers code, railing the project until the developer returned from vacation. The result of the observation was:

Bighams' Law: "The severity of the defect is inversely proportional to the distance of the developer."

It was noticed that this effect is also applicable to any issue such as the ability to reproduce an issue in front of anyone who can do something about it. For example, a car owner not able to get their car to make "that" noise, or reproduce an issue in front of a mechanic, however the second the mechanic is not around the issue re-presents itself.