Questions tagged [bug-report]
For questions around all the myriad different ways of recording and reporting issues.
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Should a tester feel bad about finding too many defects/bugs in the product?
I work as a junior black box tester in a small software house. I work in a medical industry web application. I was assigned a module to test. I did a lot of research and risk analysis and logged at ...
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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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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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Best guidelines for bug reporting?
Nothing can ruin your day like a poorly-written bug report.
I've seen several sets of guidelines for bug reporting in different organizations. In your opinion, what guidelines/steps are most ...
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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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What should Testers do if they are not able to find good defects in the product?
I work as manual/black-box tester. My responsibility primarily includes functional testing of a web application and to some extent database testing using sql server, based on the functional ...
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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 is meant by "Automated tests don't find new bugs"?
As I understand it, this sentence means that automated tests don't find new bugs in existing code (though they might catch a new bug in new code that breaks old code). Is this correct? Or is this ...
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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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Should Testers first discuss a bug with the developers before writing a bug report?
In my previous project, whenever the QA team used to find bugs/defects, they used to communicate the problem/issue to the developer sitting next to them, verbally. In this approach, most of the time, ...
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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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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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What should a Software Tester do to become more valuable and helpful for the Development Team?
When I write detailed defect descriptions or bug reports, then my team's Development manager feels satisfied. What are few things a blackbox tester can do to help the Developers become more productive ...
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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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Should QA report bugs on features before they are fully implemented?
I am a developer and I generally check in partial implementations so that I don't have too much uncommited code at any time.
I make sure that the application compiles and that it does not interfere ...
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Reporting Intermittent Bugs
I am an entry-level tester and been experiencing new things about testing every day which is great. So I am thinking, how do I deal with an intermittent bug since its most likely that developers won't ...
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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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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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Should tester fix bugs?
I've heard two guys from Microsoft and Google saying testers in those companies fix defects. Personally I think it is Ok and a better contribution than just creating a new bug ticket (at least in some ...
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Does anyone have a good list of steps for reducing a bug?
I recently ran into an almost-consistently reproducible bug that I was trying to reduce. At the time, I was tired and simply couldn't think of what to do next after about an hour of work (this bug ...
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What is common practice for labels of the bug severity?
What is the most common labels for the bug severity: High-Med-Low-etc., A-B-C-etc., 1-2-3-etc. or different? Where they origin? What is the best practice to use?
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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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What is the difference between bug severity and bug priority?
This is a basic question. Most projects mix both priority and severity into a single value. What reasons are there to separately assign severity and priority to a defect? What do testing methodologies ...
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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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Is it fair to report a bug discovered during code review without performing a test?
I'm QA with some programming experience, so I am able to debug and review the code of the system under test. I also often read the code to understand how to define request or what response should I ...
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How do you write a great bug report? [closed]
"Is this going to be a stand-up fight sir, or a bug hunt?"
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I've always wondered what the secrets were to writing a great bug report. Over time I've narrowed down the activity to three ...
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How to avoid duplicated bug reports, described from different user perspective?
We get a lot of bug reports that ends up as the same bug, but are described through the eyes of a different user.
For example one can see a device has crashed, the other sees communications loss and ...
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Raising unreproducible bugs
The system I'm working on has error logs which show various types of visible (front end user gets an error message) and none visible errors (missing image file etc).
Some of these errors are ...
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Best guidelines to create images for bug reports in big testing team?
Which set of guidelines should be used in a big testing team to reduce differences in created screenshots. Devs and PMs could go crazy from different ways five testers create screenshots and highlight ...
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Fixes hard to verify because of poor quality bug reports
Working with programmers and customers I find it is sometimes harder for me to verify the fix for a defect, than to fix a defect for a developer.
Just a simple example is when there is ...
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How to deal with repeat-bug: Re-open the existing (closed) bug report, or submit a new one?
I wonder what's the common view on the following situation:
A bug was found, reported and fixed
The bug was verified on a given build and closed
After a while (next build; after a few builds) - the ...
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Is it appropriate to use exception names in bug report title?
Bug report title is very important to distinguish one bug from another without opening its description (steps, attachments). If we will not name them in appropriate way it would be:
lots of ...
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Should Black-box software testers do Root-Cause analysis of every defect they report?
Should Testers/QA do Root-Cause analysis of every Defect/Bug they report to Developers? Well, I perform black-box testing on AUT. Sometimes I try to drill-down the issue when I find bugs. Should ...
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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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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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How to handle new "not reproducible" bug, that is known to exist but not known how
I'm writing this as a developer hoping to get feedback from the QA community.
We've got a client facing web application, for a very small development team. Assume we have a product manager and ...
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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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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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WebDriver API: 'Failed to send keys because cannot focus element' -- better workaround than using Firefox instead of Chrome?
There's a bug in the chromedriver.exe Chrome driver for Selenium's WebDriver API. You can't use send_keys for certain types of inputs, like for the jQuery plugin "EZPZ Hint". It works okay on simple ...
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Issue Tracking Spreadsheet... anything wrong with this?
So we are a small company, and we have a lot of communication between teams.
That being said I am actually the first official QA of the group, and will be starting the QA group and leading the way ...
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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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Testing without SRS as a fresher tester?
I am new to testing field and from a non-technical background how should I report bugs without SRS (Software Requirements Specification)?
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How should I do functional testing without Requirments?
When you are testing without requirments you can rely on your own logic and common expectation from your user experience.
So let's say I'm testing a button Process and Send (input stuff for data is ...
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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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What are acceptable time to spend and taks to be done analysing a defect as a tester?
Morning,
what are an acceptable time and tasks to analyse a defect as a tester?
Following situation: As our QA teams waits for a new client version and our preparations are quite done we had a look ...
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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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Is there a Jenkins plugin that visualises SoapUI test results by giving you a graphical report?
I'm basically looking for something like this, but for SoapUI:
SoapUI displays results in a really nice way in it's GUI. Any chance of getting something similar for/when it runs on Jenkins?
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Is it mandatory to include "Actual results" section in a Defect/Bug Report?
Consider these steps to reproduce a bug:
Steps:
1. Login to the app with valid credentials.
2. Click on "Administrator" tab.
3. //
4. // Few more steps
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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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