Questions tagged [defect]
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Formal methods for software defect investigation?
Are there any formal techniques/tools/approaches to software defect investigation?
For context, I'm looking at ways to approach intermittent failure in large distributed systems with many variables to ...
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Making software defect correction "fun" [closed]
Where I work we occasionally come across really challenging defects, which require a great deal of technical expertise, skill and patience to resolve. Getting our most talented engineers to work on ...
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Does Defect density measure QA or DEV effectiveness?
Most Defect density metrics are like this:
Number of bugs / Size (KLOC, Story Points, Function points..)
I have read that it measures the effectiveness of QA but I do not get it:
I can have a ...
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Example of problem caused by casting Object[] to E[]
I've heard here and there that arrays contain runtime data about their type, making you unable to instantiate an E[] (E being a generic type parameter, for example in a class Foo<E>), and that ...
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What is the difference between 'expected but not desired behavior' and a software bug
Recently I asked this question. As commented in the answer by someone who sounds like a numPy developer, this behavior is clearly not desired. The issue posted was closed stating that this is ...
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How to deal with a bug which seems to have fixed itself? [closed]
I'm a web application developer for an internal system. A user reports that there's a bug.
The bug was that some words could not be displayed. The report contains a screen capture which clearly show ...
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Why do we need both Priority and Severity?
I understand what they determine but is it really useful to assign those to issues found? I mean, it is either required to fixed quickly or not.
I know how to set them, categorize them etc. I know ...
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Is a logical error always caused by the line of code for the earliest program state which is wrong? [closed]
A logical error, contrary to a fatal runtime error, is a run time error which doesn't fatally terminate a program, but does something not intended.
Is a logical error necessarily caused by the line ...
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verify a defect is a production defect or not
As a QA person, I always believe that a defect should have all the steps needed for anyone fixing it to be able to reproduce it.
however, is it crazy to think that every defect QA opens need to be ...
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Do Agile projects use abbreviated defect reporting? [closed]
I'm accustomed to relatively rigid defect reporting, something like this.
Steps to reproduce:
1. Access customer manager for user Test01
2. Check "User must change password" and click Apply
3. Access ...
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Is it reasonable to insist on reproducing every defect before diagnosing and fixing it?
I work for a software product company. We have large enterprise customers who implement our product and we provide support to them. For example, if there is a defect, we provide patches, etc. In other ...
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Tex and Absence of bugs [duplicate]
I have been reading a lot lately and I have come across articles in which people make the 'grand' assertions that there are no bugs in the Tex program by donald knuth. Is this in any way possible and ...
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How can QA prevent defects?
Also according to Software Testing By Srinisvasan Desikan, Gopalaswamy Ramesh or ISTQB text books. Quality assurance is e.g. reviewing products, inspections, walkthroughs to see if all standards are ...
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User Acceptance Testing Defect Classification when developing for an outside client
I am involved in a large development project in which we (a very small start up) are developing for an outside client (a very large company).
We recently received their first output from UAT testing ...
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Severity and relation to occurence - priority?
I have been browsing through some webpages related to testing and found one dealing with the metrics of testing. It says:
The severity level of a defect indicates the potential business impact
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Any suggested approaches to track bugs/defects?
What is the best way to track defect sources in tfs?
We have various teams for a project like the vulnerability team, the customer, pre-sales, etc. We give a build and these teams independently test ...
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Can defect containment metrics be readily applied at an organizational level when there is only a consistant organizational process framework?
Defect containment metrics, such as total defect containment effectiveness (TDCE) and phase containment effectiveness (PCE), can be used to give a good indicator of the quality of the process. TDCE ...
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How to deal with the trail of bugs?
Every release, our trail of bugs keeps on increasing. These are valid bugs however, we also have to write new features to stay in the competition. Also, those features will be more used than the ...
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Managing UAT / Defect and Bug raising
I'm looking for assistance in figuring out the best approach to managing User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and how users raise defects/bugs - I've been in the situation before of having to deal with a ...
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Should sales staff interfere in application analysis and design?
We're working on a kind of CMS, a fast, hosted, centralized website builder like Weebly. We also use Scrum development model. But there seems to be some problems here. Our sales manager always come to ...
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Is issue (bug and feature) count a good measure of a project?
One of the projects I work on is measured by number of issues. Management has given arbitrary (as far as I can tell) measurements that we need to have no more than X number of bugs and Y number of ...
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