The Life Cycle of a Bug – Different Stages in it.
In this post, i will explore different stages of the Bug from it’s inception to closer. The Bug has been found and logged into the Bug Tracking System. It’s my fourth post in the Bug Life Cycle series.
- The Bug has been found and logged into the Bug Tracking System. It will be treated as New Bug in the System.
- The Bug will be assigned to the concerned Developer for a Resolution.
- The developer looks in to the possibilities of the resoultion & takes a call on Resolution by fixing it or differing over the information provided.
- Tester validates the resolved issue in the build & checks for the regression scenarios over the fix.
- If the issue found fixed, then he choose to Close the issue else he / she will Re-open the same.
- The Cycle follows again for the re-opened issue till it get’s closed.
It worth doing the following activities
- Capturing the required and re-usable info to the Bug Report at it’s each stage.
- Check for all the closed bugs of Severity 1 & 2 against final build for the release.
In the next post, I will share my thoughts on the useful metrics over the Bug Tracking Repository.
Happy Testing..
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September 10, 2007 at 5:05 pm
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October 18, 2007 at 4:26 pm
Nice explanation
July 2, 2009 at 10:21 am
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November 16, 2009 at 4:53 pm
There was a general misconception that a bug destroys the performance of the system and creates faulty errors in the system.
January 7, 2010 at 7:26 pm
u hv explained well. simple n to the point.. but i think there r some more stages like ‘deferred’, ‘could not produce’ etc. I think below link wil clarify bit
http://qadocs.blogspot.com/2009/11/defect-life-cycle.html
July 28, 2010 at 9:52 am
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August 17, 2010 at 12:15 pm
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January 3, 2011 at 3:34 pm
The bug life cycle is seems to be good i appreciate u to explain this cycle in a good ways
June 3, 2011 at 6:21 pm
Its really tremendoue good blog which are showing software testing ife cycle for Bugs….Thanks a lot !
July 11, 2011 at 6:22 pm
Thought would add some of the common defect states,
-Open
-Fixed
-Verified
-Closed
-Double/Duplicate
-Reject (Works as per Requirements, wont fix, works for me)
December 2, 2011 at 6:03 pm
Bug Life Cycle
New
Open
Assign
Test
Reopen
Deferred
Rejected
Verify
Close
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December 16, 2011 at 4:49 pm
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Good concise post on the Bug Life Cycle /Defect Life Cycle.
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