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What is the difference between Bug Reporting and Bug Tracking?

  
Total Answers and Comments: 6 Last Update: October 05, 2009     Asked by: Parul1 
  
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Bug Reporting: When we find a new bug we will file it in a reporting tool (ex Test Director, Quality Center etc) with its Title/Description, steps to reproduce, date of reporting, Tested by (reported by), Assigned to, Attachments if any, severity, priority, build no, Module, test case number etc.

Bug Tracking : Bug Tracking is a process in which the status of bug is traced, generally when a bug is find, tester will re-test it to make sure it is reproducible and will raise the bug by adding its status to New / Open with appropriate information and assign it to a particular developer or Manager/dev Lead will assign to developers whenever they got new bug, developer change its status to Under Assessment, and verifies whether it is a really a bug. If is it not really a bug he will change the status to Reject and if it is a bug, he makes sure whether it is a duplicate one, if yes changes status to Duplicate by adding comments and then wait for the approval by the tester and tester will verify it again, if it is duplicate he will close the bug. If the functionality is not totally developed, developer will change the status to Deferred. If the bug is a valid one, then developer will fix the bug and change the status to fixed for verification, tester will do regression testing on new build and if bug is fixed he will change the status to Test Passed and next close the bug, if bug is not fixed he will change the status to Test Fail and re-assign to developer, and this process will continue till the bug is fixed.



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tryme
July 31, 2007 14:19:35   #1  
ramesh7584 Member Since: March 2007   Contribution: 10    

RE: What is the difference between Bug Reporting and B...
Bug Reporting is the activity of posting a bug to the development team to fix it
Bug Tracking is the actvitiy of tracking the how many number of bugs were found build wise seviority wise and usecase wise and also we can say tracking the bugs according to the requirements convered under test cases.

Bug Reporting tools like MQC Test Directoer Test Tracker Defect Tracker PVCS Tracker Bugzilla are used to report the bugs and generate the reports weekly build wise and bugs seviority and status wise to represent the management about the product quality

Let me know if I am wrong any where?

 
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August 22, 2007 12:22:11   #2  
Jyoti        

RE: What is the difference between Bug Reporting and B...

Bug Reporting means:
Identify the bug and assign it to developer.

Bug Tracking means:
Whatever bug/issue you had logged track those bug till those are closed.


 
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November 19, 2007 02:57:41   #3  
rahul        

RE: What is the difference between Bug Reporting and B...

Bug Reporting - When we find a bug or defect in the application we
will be reporting to the concerned people via the defect management tool for eg:
Quality Centre to fix that where we mention the severity and priority of that
particular bug with relevant documents.


Bug Tracking - It's the process of tracking the status of the bug
whether the status of the bug has changed or not and if so to take necessary
action for that related bug For eg: the status of the bug has changed from
assigned to pending-retest so if we keep track on that then only we will be
able to know that we have to retest that particular bug.


 
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March 12, 2009 01:42:17   #4  
vk1978 Member Since: February 2009   Contribution: 174    

RE: What is the difference between Bug Reporting and Bug Tracking?

Bug Reporting: When we find a new bug we will file it in a reporting tool (ex
Test Director Quality Center etc) with its Title/Description steps to
reproduce date of reporting Tested by (reported by) Assigned to Attachments
if any severity priority build no Module test case number etc.


Bug Tracking : Bug Tracking is a process in which the status of bug is
traced generally when a bug is find tester will re-test it to make sure it is
reproducible and will raise the bug by adding its status to New / Open with
appropriate information and assign it to a particular developer or Manager/dev
Lead will assign to developers whenever they got new bug developer change its
status to Under Assessment and verifies whether it is a really a bug. If is it
not really a bug he will change the status to Reject and if it is a bug he
makes sure whether it is a duplicate one if yes changes status to Duplicate by
adding comments and then wait for the approval by the tester and tester will
verify it again if it is duplicate he will close the bug. If the functionality
is not totally developed developer will change the status to Deferred. If the
bug is a valid one then developer will fix the bug and change the status to
fixed for verification tester will do regression testing on new build and if
bug is fixed he will change the status to Test Passed and next close the bug if
bug is not fixed he will change the status to Test Fail and re-assign to
developer and this process will continue till the bug is fixed.



 
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August 27, 2009 07:41:38   #5  
Nitinkk Member Since: September 2008   Contribution: 16    

RE: What is the difference between Bug Reporting and Bug Tracking?
Bug Reporting :
If you are reporting / entering any newly found bug in bug tracking system.

Bug Tracking :
Taking the TRACK of the BUG Status.

Rgds
Nitin K Verma

 
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October 05, 2009 04:48:03   #6  
tryme Member Since: October 2009   Contribution: 2    

RE: What is the difference between Bug Reporting and Bug Tracking?
Bug Reporting: Logging a defect/bug in any defect tracking tool with all the necessary details.
Bug Tracking: After logging the defect/bug tracking the bug until the defect is closed is called bug tracking

 
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