Wednesday, October 10, 2012

I've found a bug, what next?


During software testing we can found bugs which should be properly managed. What is a life cycle of a bug in professional project? Above you can see very simple bug flow. If you found a bug check if similar issue was reported before, if not open a new bug. Then wait for fix and help developer to fix this issue. If fix for this bug was committed check the latest build and verified it, if a bug still exists reopen the issue, if not just close the bug. 


Of course in professional project, also open source, the team use a special tool to manage bugs e.g. JIRA or Bugzilla. If you use something similar the life cycle is more complex. The second picture show official life cycle of a Bugzilla bug. There you can assign a issue to a particular person and also developers can choose possible resolution.

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