Bug Reporting – Art and Advocacy

This article highlights the essence and traits of finding bugs. It leaps to redefine the art, a tester should inculcate while finding a bug. It enumerates various artifacts in reporting a bug. Whereas, also voices the advocacy on the bugs that has been reported. The basic amenity of a tester being to fight for the bug until it is fixed.

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Hi Priyanka,

This is a very good article regarding the Bug. Tracing out of bugs from the Appliction plays a vital role for the quality of the application. Hence it is necesary to track the Bug so that all the other who are all the part of the team and the client can able to see where the problem occurs and how to rectify it.

One more point to add the article, regarding the Bug Tracking tools. It is very hard to track all the bugs for an application which is complex and big in a excel sheet. There the Bug tracking tools plays a important role. Now all of the Test Management tools provides bug tracking as one of their component. For example, Quality Center or Test Director are some of the tools which also provide bug tracking facility.

Once a bug is identified it is locked in the Defect tracking system and unique number is assigned to it. Each Defect will have the Defect ID, Subject, Description, Person locked the defect, Assigned to, Severity, Priority, Status such as open or new or closed, Module, Area where the defect occurred, Type of defect, etc.,

With the use of the Defect tracking tools it is efficient to deal with the Bugs.

Regards,
Ganesan

If we consider the bugs, we should consider those bugs also, which our users reports to us, but they don't report any steps to reproduce.
Sometimes it becomes so challenges to write steps for this type of bugs. You know the bug, but not the step. And if you want that the bug should fixed, you have to write steps to reproduce it.

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@ jain,
In tht situation how to reproduce tht bug without steps,,can u explain???