Defect Reporting

Defect Reporting: 

once a defect is identified we have to document the defect & report the
same to developer

Severity - Stops the system execution. 

Runtime error

Showstopper Severity - Stops the system execution.

Defect Age:    The time gap between date of detection & date of closure I known as the defect

age

Defect Severity: How serious the problem in the system or the impact of the problem in the

system is called defect severity.

Very high - fatal-S0

High - Major-S1

Medium - Minor-S2

Low – Low-S3

Showstopper defect: A defect which is not permitting to continue further test is called showstopper defect.

Defect Priority: The order in which the defect is to be resolved is called defect priority.

***Note :

*) Defect severity may be specified by the tester & defect priority will be assigned by manager

*) In general defect severity and priority’s proposition to each other but in some situation

that may vary.

*) An example of a defect that takes low severity and high priority. - Incorrect company logo and incorrect company title

*) An example for a defect that takes high severity and low priority - A serious problem belongs

to inter release module.

Defect Age: The time interval between date of detection and date of closure is called is defect

age.

*) In other words how long a bug is present in the development life cycle is called defect age.

Test Closure:  It is the last phase of SDLC where the management prepares various test summary reports that explains the complete statistics of the project.

Common Repository: Work Product:

A centralized computer system where you stored and mange all project resources is called

common repository.

Configuration Management: Maintaining all project resources in a centralized system, maintaining appropriate version controlling based on the changes made to them is called configuration management.

Software Configuration Tools:

*) VSS (Visual Source Safe)

*) CVS (Concurrent Version System (open source))

***Note:

*) Quality center test management tools also provide configuration management services.