Questions tagged [bug-report]
For questions around all the myriad different ways of recording and reporting issues.
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How to report suggestions to developers while doing a software testing?
Here is the scenario, Our testing team suggested so many things while they performing testing. They have been reporting these suggestions as BUGS. I mean there are creating tickets under the category ...
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Will a developer be annoyed when a tester reports bugs one at a time instead of all at once?
There is sometimes the following situation happens to me: I report a bug. Then the dev fixes it. Then I re-test and discover a new one (I think it's not a new bug introduced, it's just me that missed ...
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Grouping hard to reproduce bugs
Many testers come across bugs that are difficult to recreate. They are occasionally reported, and sometimes they are not. This also happens on my team.
I was thinking of making an epic, or a JIRA tag, ...
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MCQ on Bug Testing
A bug was found in the product that the test cases did not highlight. As a QA Engineer, what would you do?
Update the test script to cover that issue
Use your product knowledge to update the test ...
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What should stakeholders or customers see and not see in the test report?
A rudimentary question, actually. But exactly this led to a lively discussion in our teams.
Example:
We use Owasp ZAP for security testing, at the end we can of course create a detailed report (mostly ...
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What is your approach to low-priority bugs?
What is your team's approach with those bugs that you open and report with the absolute certainty that there will never be time in the future to fix them?
Do you think it is better to keep them ...
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What steps to take when you spot a bug before release?
Imagine you are responsible for testing a web application. Your team is preparing a release of a new feature. Just before the release you spot a bug.
What next steps would you take next to resolve ...
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How can we apply the defect arrival rate to mesure the project evolution?
I wonder how can we apply the defect arrival rate to discover the progress in our testing projects from developers and testers side ?
Is there a risk by applying such approach ?
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How can I prove/showcase the value I add as an automation tester to (high) business?
Say that I am a sole QA in a new project, and a first-timer in automation testing in the department (no prior experience or support network). Initial participation in the project (handful of weeks) ...
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While raising bug scenario mentioned shall be specific or not?
When Bugs are raised there can be multiple scenarios in which the particular functionality is verified just to make sure is it really a bug or not. While mentioning the scenario if that functionality ...
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Bug ticket vs Quality not reached
I have a question regarding a feature which is not working as expected because the KPIs decided are not reached.
As we are working with machine learning, this is not a bug in the code but for example ...
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What are the scopes of API testing
I am testing few API endpoints of a product and there are many observations like:
Server response with 500 error if the application content type is JSON instead of form data.
Different endpoints ...
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Report non-unique ids?
Since a webpage should only have unique id attributes, does that mean you should report that as a bug on an otherwise functional page?
For one, it surely makes automation more difficult, but for some ...
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How to respond to requests to retest, in hope that the bug is gone?
We sometimes get requests from developers to re-run a failing test on the latest build, since "we did a lot of changes" and they hope the bug is gone.
On one hand, one can claim that they should ...
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Web app accessible to everyone on a random day?
I need to jot down debugging steps for below scenario : "You are hosting a web app in your server which is accessible only to a particular set of people. But on an unusual day, all the people are able ...
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When should a bug go to "Will Not Fix" vs "As Designed" on its final state?
Often times we file a bug and later see that it's marked as "As Designed" by the developer. Sometimes it gets marked as "Will Not Fix".
When a bug is marked "Will Not Fix" then it is supposed to ...
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Why is "expected" before "actual" in bug templates?
I've seen a lot of bug templates all having Expected Result before Actual Result. To me, this does not make sense because it breaks the flow of reading through the bug/page.
Usually when you read (...
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What sections should a high quality Bug report contain? [duplicate]
I am a newbie in testing and i just write in the bug report, the pre-requisites , actual results and expected result section under "description".
Other testers say that my report is not professional ...
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Is there a name for this type of bug where a bool is overwritten on every iteration of a loop giving an invalid result?
I have found several instances of bugs like this in dusty corners of our automation code base. Fortunately the person responsible for snippets like these has no longer with the company, but I'd like ...
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How to keep track of regression bugs during Sprint in JIRA?
I want to keep track of all the regression bugs in JIRA, which is not related to any specific user stories in the current sprint. While creating as separate bug/task in the sprint affect its scope.
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Table with pagination
Data table loading all data at client side and then doing pagination. I marked this as an issue as the table could have more data in future.
But Developer is not convinced and says it's best to load ...
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Should separate report be created about error that occurs due to existing another error?
I found error that occurs due to another error.
If first error will be fixed, I can't reproduce second.
Developers are going to fix both of them simultaneously.
Should I create two bug reports for ...
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How to convince the developer a bug exists but is not reproducible?
Let's say I have discovered a bug in mobile application, which I am not able to replicate (i.e., the bug only occurred once) - how can I convince the developer that the bug does exist, so that it can ...
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please give me example of the following Priority and Severity of bug? [closed]
in my interview i was asked
there is a login page in which the forget password button is not working what will be Severity and Priority
and then he told me what if the Submit button not working ...
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Do I need to perform smoke testing again before sanity testing for every bug fix?
let's say for the 1st time I have checked performed Smoke testing (application main feature) on the 1st day and then I report a Bug and developer fixed and deployed the app I test environment then do ...
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What to do if a found bug has already been reported?
Should I add it to bug tracker or not? How should I proceed? Should I ignore it?
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Are there any software for bug report for free download?
I'm writing bug reports by using Bug Tracker 2.9.1 version but after 50 reports, I need to pay money in order to continue using it. Are there any programs for bug reports which I can download for free?...
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What would be the strategy when too many bugs are found in the final round of testing?
The QA team starts testing a software/product and there are “way too many” defects…!
Every other scenario is failing, new flows are explored & clarifications sought.
What would be the strategy now?...
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Is asking about "The most interesting bug in your career" a good interview question?
We've been interviewing for quite some time and I've been asking candidates:
What is the most interesting bug you've found in your career?
Either the most interesting, or the one they are proud of ...
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What are the pitfalls or challenges of converting clickstream/user action logs into test scripts?
We keep having the idea of logging user actions at a detailed enough level to do things like track feature usage, identify common workflow errors, etc.
If we had such detailed logging, it seems like ...
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When is it okay to implement a bug fix as a feature or enhancement?
I sometimes see that issues that seem to be bugs, are declared as a feature or enhancement instead. Here is a contrived example.
We have an e-commerce website. Customers can add items to shopping ...
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Should all apps have a bug reporting feature?
Say there is an app (web, mobile etc.). When a backend error occurs, then should the app show the user a summary of the error (and unique error id), without showing any information that could reveal ...
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Asking a developer to be explicit about how a bug was fixed
Whenever our developer fixes a bug, he or she just posts "Fixed in version x.x.x.x, please test".
We, the QA team, have requested developers to be as detailed as possible about what caused a problem ...
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How to sell a bug?
As Cem Kaner said:
The best tester is not the one who finds the most bugs or who
embarrasses the most developers. The best tester is the one who gets
the most bugs fixed.
Which refers to a ...
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How to report and record a negative test case
I have a QTP test case and wanted to expand it to test multiple user role types.
It should pass for high privilege users and fail for low privilege users at various points depending on what page they ...
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How do I deal with poorly documented bugs?
I sometimes come across bugs that do not have enough information to reproduce the bug, or worse, understand what the issue is in the first place. Usually, business analysts, rookie QAs & ...
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Should I voluntarily provide a risk report to our customer?
We are a consultant firm that offers software testing services to our customers. Once our contract is finished, we will no longer have access to customers sites or projects.
Recently one thing is ...
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Why would an external testing team find more bugs then an internal testing team?
I work on a project as an internal testing team, our team put 100% effort to all formal testing procedure like complete testing process & at a certain level of time we don't find bugs in ...
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How to report a bug that has no technical solution?
When we were testing a project, which would require an Excel sheet as an input. The only validating mechanism of this whole file importing process was offered by Excel macro (validate against inputs' ...
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How to handle a developer who misunderstands my bugs and feel there are too many
Last week, one permanent employee came over to my desk and bluntly told me that I was raising too many bugs in Jira.
A large number of bugs are putting him in a very difficult position as his ...
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What should be reported when a bug only happens 50% of the time?
So, let's say I'm running some tests and run across some odd behavior that is a deviation from expected results, however, I quickly run the test again and the bug is not reproduced. I begin to ...
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Is it okay to test the absence of exceptions or error messages in an application?
There is a web page which is supposed to display current month's sales of five types of items. One bug report says that a server error message is displayed on this page and the sales report is not ...
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What if the software is so buggy it can't really be tested at all?
I know the best bet in this situation is for the testers to go through the process of reporting blocking-type problems initially show up, with the focus being on critical bugs. Since, this type of ...
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How can I isolate bugs of users that we are not able to replicate?
I am having a recurring problem where bugs are cropping up once or twice in a build, and are reported by users but I and my team are not able to replicate them.
What techniques do you use to ...
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Should QA or tester mention the root cause for a bug?
QA closes bugs where I work. In most cases, bugs are closed without mentioning any details about the root cause. The only info given is one of the options in our bug tracker, such as "code", "test ...
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How do we deal with occasional (but real) application failures
Background:
In our UAT testing environment, there have been a few intermittent bugs that come and go.
I am not a permanent employee here, my current contract will finish early August.
What I have ...
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Senior management expected bug discovery rate to match their expectation
We are four weeks in testing a new application. In summary
There is only one developer assigned to this project, basically, 8 man hour is available for this project.
The rate of bug discovery is ...
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How should a Software Tester deal with missed Defects/bugs in Production?
I work as a QA/test engineer in a small software company. It is an e-commerce based product. I was assigned a few projects by my manager. I mostly do functional/blackbox testing. Before the production ...
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Should I report bugs during Proof of Concept stage?
Have been working on a proof of concept project for a potential customer. If it is successful, we will get a 6 month worth of contract from them.
I have discovered two bugs during this proof of ...
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How to avoid bug leakage in the Software Product
Can you anyone explain the What is Bug leakage with example and how to avoid bug leakage in software product development?
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