Archive for August 2010
How can we do a good bug reporting
It is a quite common comment received from a developer, that the Bug report is not clear. The steps to reproduce are Vague, captured screenshot is not effective, and many more are usual complaints which tester can hear in his career. Hence, reporting a bug efficiently and effectively is as important as identifying bugs. Reporting a good bug is not hard, but many times we do it in a hurry and without putting our full attention into it and hence when a bug is not reported properly it may end up in
- Wasting our time to report bug incorrectly and additional time to correct and rewrite it
- Wasting the time of other people who review it and trying to make sense of what we wrote
- Reduce our testing professionalism, by writing a bug that is correct but incomprehensive

