Defect Management

Top 10 Open Source Bug Tracking Tools

Bugzilla is a Mozilla Foundation supported / developed bug tracking system that allows its users to log and track defects in their product effectively. It is a very mature and feature rich application with features like advanced search capabilities, bug lists in multiple formats, scheduled reports, automatic duplicate bug detection, capability to file / modify [...]

Do Typos Count As Software Bugs?

In the life of a tester, a great deal of time and energy will be spent arguing over the validity of software bugs. After reporting what they consider to be an issue in need of fixing, a tester is often told that “it’s not a bug, it’s a feature.” These conversations presumably date back to [...]

Is it a bug?

Scenario: You are a competent tester who has just joined a company and is testing on the first project there. The application you are testing is a financial web application. During test execution, you make the following observations. Rate each observation on a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being definitely not a bug and [...]

Software Testing: Theory on Defect Detection

Theory: A defect can only be discovered in an environment that contains the defect. This seems very obvious! So why even bother to mention it, let alone post a blog entry about it? The motivation for this entry comes from a familiar situation that i am sure most testers would have encountered. Software testers devise [...]

What is the difference between severity and priority?

After having seen this question floated in so many forums, I decided to write about it. First, the basics. These terms are used with respect to bugs. Severity and Priority are two attributes of a bug report. If you have seen Effective Bug Reports, you can see simple definitions of these terms.

Top reasons given by testers when bugs are reported by clients

Well, we have seen the Top replies given by programmers when their programs do not work correctly. Here is a list of reasons given by testers when they do not report or even find (important) bugs. I found this bug BUT… 1. It was not approved for submission (by the test lead/ test manager/ fellow [...]

How to find more or better bugs (12 tips to explode your bug count and/ or severity)?

Well, we know that we do not find all the bugs in the application under test (given that the application at hand is not simple). However, we do want to discover and report the most and the best bugs that we can. You need more ideas if you want to find more or better bugs [...]

Why Testers miss defects that end up in live environments

Article by Amir Ghahrai Quite often applications are deployed in live environments with defects which testers didn’t find during the testing phases. There are several reasons why defects end up in live environment. Here are some of them. 1 – Not understanding the requirement properly. Although this is quite unlikely (because application under test would [...]

Early Defect Detection

Article By: Grant Obermaier They say that it is the early bird that catches the worm. The same is true in software testing. The process starts with a requirement and from this point onwards, there is gradually more and more effort being applied to the creation or modification of an application. More people become involved [...]

Beware of the Quick Fix

P.T. BARNUM said there’s a sucker born every minute, but Barnum was a conservative estimator — or else he didn’t know any IT managers. For more than 45 years now, I’ve watched an endless stream of technical “solutions” being promoted, sold, and quickly put on the shelf and forgotten. Come to think of it, forgetting [...]

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