Bug Leaderboard
Propel Bug Leaderboard: September 2025
Sep 30, 2025
September 2025
Propel Bug Leaderboard
This a ranking of the most frequent bugs found across codebases. The data is derived from the PR comments made by Propel Code's AI Code Review Agent. Use this snapshot to steer playbooks toward the issues slowing teams down right now.
Top Category September 2025
Data Integrity & Migration
19.8%
Insight: Data Integrity & Migration dominated this month. Teams kept running into Schema Change Without Migration, Upsert / Dedupe Logic Bug, and Data Validation / Consistency incidents, clear signs that migration playbooks need tighter guardrails before rollouts.
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