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Report the Bug
How did you report the bug in your last job?
mathan_vel
- Jun 10th, 2010
How did you report the bug in your last job? Its all up on the Organization, Project, Client and varies.Lot many tools is there to Reporting the bug. In my case I used Excel sheets & Is...
kurtz182
- Dec 22nd, 2009
Posting a bug is typically done in a defect management tool. However, some test groups use a spreadsheet program. Make sure the defect report contains: 1) defect id2) test case refere...
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New Bug and Open Bug
What is the difference between New and Open bug? Who is responsible for changing the phase of bug from New to Open?
krishnalatha
- Jun 23rd, 2010
When a tester creates or enters a new bug, he can assign the bug to 2 different people, one is directly to the concerned Developer, or TL or PM. When we directly assign to the developer, the deve...
kurtz182
- Dec 17th, 2009
A new bug is one that has not been reviewed and assigned. An open bug is one that has undergone a review process and a Project Manager has assigned it to someone (ex: development staff, business analyst, etc.) for further research.
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Test cases on bug tracking tool
What are the test cases on bug tracking tool?
jatinjain
- Jul 30th, 2010
There can be many types of test cases like functional,usability, GUI,database,security etc.For the functional part high priority ones should be :1.Validating all states of bug cycle.2.Validating ...
kurtz182
- Dec 17th, 2009
I'm not sure I fully understand this question. Bug tracking tools are like any other client-server or web-based distributed applications, so the test cases will be identical. These inc...
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Missing important bug
If i miss a important bug and i realise it very late then what will i do?
kishore11m
- Aug 11th, 2010
First check whether the bug existed in your scope or not, if it is in your scope, check whether you have covered the senario in testcase document, if not, prepare a Root Cause Analysis Report and send to the team lead.
DattaDeshmukh
- Apr 9th, 2010
Every bug you founf is important. If you found it at the end of release cycle then also inform it/log it. Let the BA decide what to do with it. If it is critical/major then it should be fixed. If it is normal/minor/corner case then can be deffered to next relase.ThanksDatta Deshmukh
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What is build interval period?
mathan_vel
- Sep 30th, 2010
The Time Gap between one build completed time to next build introduced time.Time gap between Build 1.0 to build.1.1
preethi.gollamandala
- Sep 9th, 2009
Its a period of getting two different AUT s from the developers.it means the gap b/w two different testing builds received from the developers to testing team
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Change Defect Status
A Defect is Deferred/Suspended State and stated the comment as "The defect wont be no longer in next release" by developer. On next deployment you retested the Defect and noticed that the defect is still there.Now Question is, Who is responsible to reopen the Defect? Tester or Developer?
vaibhavst
- Dec 11th, 2010
In this case Tester is the one who is responsible for opening the defect. Since in QC "Deferred" is end status after which the status cannot be modified (local admin can modify the end statu...
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Enterprise Edition of QC
Which extra module comes along with the Enterprise Edition of QC?
Rose1
- Dec 13th, 2010
The Quality Center has 4 basic modules and 2 additional modules.The 4 basic modules are1.Requirement2.Test Plan3.Test Lab4.DefectThe 2 additional modules are1.Business Components(Used to business process testing)2.dash board(for real time project tracking)
sheetal.chelwa
- Feb 3rd, 2010
HP Quality Center Enterprise Edition (formerly HP TestDirector for Quality Center software): Suitable for mainstream QA organizations that may not have expanded globally and may not yet be managing large, complex QA initiatives.
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Who will Change the status of the Bug...say : Deferred " ?
pandit
- Dec 14th, 2010
Development Team & Delivery Manager will decided to change the Status in deferred.( If I am wrong pls inform me.)
mathan_vel
- Sep 30th, 2010
It depends up on the Bug. Those who responsible for the bug will change the status as "Deferred" (who had to decide when to test it again). Most probably Project Manager..example: If the Bug...
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Suppose that you are running tests on the windows calculators and find that 1/1=2,2/2=1,3/3=10,4/4=1,5/5=26&6/6=1..write a bug description that effectively describes this problem...iits urgent
iamtheone
- Jan 9th, 2011
(x/x) operation where x = Positive odd integer uses the formula ((x*x)+1) instead of integer division.The (x/x) operation works fine for even numbers.
sidharthaIBM
- Jul 16th, 2010
The output will be always one when a number is divided by itself.It is giving correct output when the no is even i.e when the no is divisible by 2.But when the no is odd it is squaring the no and increasing it by 1.Ex--3*3+1=10
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Bug Weightage
What are different weightages given for a Bug?
TumuPavan
- Feb 16th, 2011
Severity (Severity is Absolute ) Severity 1: Bug causes system crash or data loss.Severity 2: Bug causes major functionality or other severe problems; product crashes in obscure cases.Severity 3...
vaibhavst
- Dec 11th, 2010
Severity 1 - Show stopper issue. In which case testing cannot be continued.Severity 2 - Not a show stopper but can considerably damage the system which is under testSeverity 3 - Minor functional...
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Defect Responsibility
Suppose you found a defect and got a status as "Defered/ Suspended" and got comment that this defect will not be no longer in the next release from developer side. Deployment completed for next release and came for testing. What is your responsibility of this defect.
TumuPavan
- Feb 16th, 2011
In my experience i have not followed the practice of logging new bugs to associate with a deferred bug. What I have seen and practiced with in my projects is have Developer will only resolve a bug...
sabnekar
- Oct 30th, 2010
Generally such defects are called as Migrated defects.As per my experience.. We move such defects to new project in Quality center, so a new defect number is created in new release. Now that has to te...
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Bug Status
You Opened a Defect, for that you got a comment that "Its not a defect, this is according to new changes in requirement, later this point will added in requirement document" What status you will provide for this bug until the requirement update?
gsrmohan
- Feb 21st, 2011
The developer set the status as "Wont Fix" for this .We don't have to close the defect.Once SRS is updated we can reopen the defect by adding comment to the defect.
TumuPavan
- Feb 16th, 2011
There are 2 parts to this answer: 1) The bug that was reported was on Build X which is developed and deployed based on a frozen set of requirements. If the product deployed does not confirm to t...
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What is the process of bug cycle?
Siva Anand
- Apr 25th, 2011
Bug Life Cycle1.Open2.Assigned3.Acknowledged (If Issue reproduced by developer)4.Feedback(If Issue not reproduced by developer)5.Resolved (If Developer fixed the bug)6.Retesting 7.Closed (If Issue fixed)8.Reopen (If Issue exist)
jyoti_02
- May 29th, 2008
Bug life cycle is the cycle through which a defect goes starts when bugs found and ends when bugs is closed after ensuring its not reproduced.Phases of Bug life cycle:-1) New: When bugs found2) Open: ...
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What do we do when we get a bug in an application first? Explain it with the help of an example of Bug Life Cycle.
Siva Anand
- Apr 27th, 2011
Reproduce the bug twice.Analyse the steps in which scenario the bug arise and report the bug.
munnu
- Apr 29th, 2008
when we found a bug,we have to retest to know whether the bug found is valid or not,if it is a valid bug it will be posted.
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What are the difference between rational clearquest and testdirector?
srinivas
- Jul 13th, 2011
Rational is powered by IBM. Test Director is powered by Mercury.
Rational is bug tracking tool,
test director is test management tool and tracking tool
srinivasulub1981
- May 20th, 2009
TD or QC is a test management tool which contains below modules.-> Requirements-> Test plan-> Test lab-> DefectsWhere as Clear Quest is purely a bug tracking tool
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How you can ensure that bug is duplicate ?
MADHUMALARRAMAN
- Sep 3rd, 2011
Searching the defect database
Discussion with the testing team
If Expected output is wrong for different scenario. Each Scenario will NOT be a defect.
The Tester who logs the defect for first time should also test and document what other scenario could go wrong.
ravi
- Aug 25th, 2011
The Bug can be duplicate if it has been created for the same issues for which already a defect has been logged. I will explain it with an example. Say you are working on a UID123 and you got to see ...
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Defect Management/ Defect Resolution
" How did you manage Defect Resolution in your last Company".(Recently I was asked this Question in One interview.What could be good answer for this question?)
Manish_ti
- Sep 18th, 2011
Defect Managment has 5 steps-
1) Defect Prevention
2) Deliverable baseline
3) Defect Dyscovery
4) Defect resolution
5) Process Improvement
Defect Resolution is the part of defect Managment has following steps-
1) Prioritize fix
2) Schedule Fix
3) Fix defect
4) Report Resolutionkurtz182
- Dec 26th, 2009
I appreciate of mathan_vel's answer. Yet our process is somewhat different:Assess risks and prioritize accordingly: This assessment is typically performed during a triage meeting ...
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Closure Action taken by Tester
As a tester you found lot of defects/bugs in the entire test cycle. As the release date is near (within a week), you found many of the defect (24) is not yet closed. What are the closure action you will take?
mithr17
- Oct 21st, 2011
Action items: 1. Determine how many are Priority 1 (P1), 2 (P2) and 3 (P3) bugs. 2. Send an email to all the project stake holders - BA, PM, Dev lead, QA manager, QA lead) with the # P1, P2, P3 out...
TumuPavan
- Feb 16th, 2011
Some pieces of the puzzle are missing but let me attempt to answer What is the length of the test cycle? At which stage of the Test Cycle are these bugs reported? What are the Priorities / Sever...
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What are the different types of Bugs we normally see in any of the Project? Include the severity as well.
1. User Interface Defects -------------------------------- Low 2. Boundary Related Defects ------------------------------- Medium3. Error Handling Defects --------------------------------- Medium4. Calculation Defects ------------------------------------ High5. Improper Service Levels (Control flow defects) --------- High6. Interpreting Data Defects ------------------------------ High7. Race Conditions...
rohit9625
- Oct 21st, 2011
Raaj sorry to say but in ur bug life cycle dev doesnt reassigned to tester its the test manager
raghuramsuravarapu
- May 20th, 2009
Severity varies between scanrio to scenario.Different types of bugs :User Interface BugsInput Domain BugsError Message BugsCalculation BugsCritical BugsHardware BugsLoad Scenario BugsSource BugsVersion Control BugsID Bugs
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Bug in black box testing
One example where you could not find the bug in black box testing but you can find in white box testing?
ankit sharma
- Sep 24th, 2011
Memory leak, memory leak will not affect the functionality but it will affect the performance, if you are not using any specific tool to test this then it will not be caught by a black box tester. there could be some other examples also
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