A bug refers to any sort of problem that occurs in the design, specification, or coding of an application. During the entire software development lifecycle, bug-tracking is a mandatory task without which software quality cannot be ensured. It offers quality products and also saves time for the quality assurance teams. Choosing the right issue tracking tool is…
Category: Defect Tracking
How to Best Prioritize Software Defects?
Bug prioritization is an important part of the defect management process that can be enhanced with capable issue tracking tools. But ultimately, it’s your testers and developers who have to leverage these tools to prioritize, and therefore, they must know how to best do it. In this article, we will lay down a three-step process…
Saving Time and Money with Effective Issue Tracking Systems
With the growing complexity and scope of the projects, many companies today are embedding issue tracking systems in their business operations and processes. It is a lot easier and cost-effective for them to use issue tracking tools for the management of several aspects like bug tracking and customer complaints. At almost every stage of the…
A Quick Guide to Bug Triaging
Triage is a term derived from the medical world, which essentially means prioritization of patients based on the disease and criticality. The same definition applies in the dictionary of computer science except that, instead of patients, bugs are prioritized using issue tracking tools. This prioritization is sometimes quite obvious while at other times, it takes…
The Good Side and the Bad Side of Defect Tracking
Defects keep appearing in a software development process all the time. Developers used to work separately but gone are those days, because now testers, developers and other major stakeholders work in teams. Identifying bugs early is a major goal in the software development cycle, yet most of the agile teams have moved away from the…
5 Reasons Why Bug Management Tools are Must-Have
Tracking bugs is an important part of the development lifecycle. If you’re already aware of the science behind bugs and what they’re capable of, you don’t need any explanation. But for those who don’t, a bug can be any issue in design, specifications, requirements, and coding that cause incorrect or undesirable results. From poor user…
Why is Defect Tracking Important for Your Organization?
Bug tracking has become an important part of a development life-cycle to ensure a high-quality product. Defects are preferred to be dealt with at earlier stages of development because the cost of fixing them in later stages is very high. From detecting to reporting to tracking a bug’s progress, defect management tools come in handy.…