Effective Bug Reports

Tweet  I have been writing a series of articles on Bug life cycle and some thoughts are still pending. In this article, I will describe my views on effective bug reports and how the same might help to improve the productivity of software development teams. There are many stories around Continue reading

Ability to identify the hot spots of release from Bug Database

Tweet Bug Database for the products might have thousands of issues over a period of time against various builds and releases. Though these issues fixed over a period of time, it might be hard to derive meaningful metrics over the release. We need to support these releases over the production Continue reading

The Life Cycle of a Bug – Different Stages in it.

Tweet In this post, i will explore different stages of the Bug from it’s inception to closer. The Bug has been found and logged into the Bug Tracking System. It’s my fourth post in the Bug Life Cycle series. The Bug has been found and logged into the Bug Tracking Continue reading

Bug in the BSNL Portal

Tweet Today, i have come across an interesting issue with BSNL Portal. I have been using this site for online billing and payments for about an year. Followed the usual steps and my objective is too see the bill and pay it online. To my surprise, the system says This Continue reading

Context driven information for Bug Reports

Tweet Context driven information is the need of the hour and there is a huge value associated with the same. It’s good to capture the context driven information in the bug reports. My initial experiences with bug reports way back in early 2000 have taught many lessons to improve upon. Continue reading

An insight into Bugs in the Software Applications

Tweet Abstract: Bugs are there every where in the software applications. Almost every one who uses software applications for their day to day activities; do come across different kind of problems while working with them.  Each of these problems has different meanings to different people on it. There are many Continue reading

The Role of Software Testing

Tweet This is my first post in the Bug Life Cycle Series. I need to talk about this because when it comes to the role of testing, it’s not clear. The Role of Software Testing is often mis-understood across the different stake holders of the application development & this list Continue reading

The Bug Life Cycle Series

Tweet I have been talking about Bugs in the Software Applications in my recent posts. They play an important role in Software Development & Testing. The biggest value addition is to uncover the critical issues of the system at the early stage. I have already written some posts on the Continue reading

Lessons to be Learned from the Bugs

Tweet In this post, I will be looking at Bugs  with an insight that helps testers to learn some new lessons on why the same might have occured. It’s quite common that the testers are  blammed  for  all  the  missed out  bugs  in the system as if they are super natural powers to over see all the issues that are Continue reading