{"id":54772,"date":"2022-03-23T11:07:54","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T05:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/?p=54772"},"modified":"2022-03-28T12:43:12","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T07:13:12","slug":"how-to-write-a-better-bug-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/how-to-write-a-better-bug-report\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Write A Better Bug Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bug Reporting is a very major &amp; important part of the software testing. In Software Testing, Bug reporting is referred as the reporting of issues observed by the tester to the developer so that it should be fixed at the earliest. The bug report comes into picture when the QA\u2019s completes the test cases execution and an issue\/defect\/problem\/mistake\/error is found. Bug Reporting is crucial &amp; important part in the software testing life-cycle, but still it\u2019s much less practiced. A better and more effective bug report requires skills which can be mastered through continuously using these tools.<\/p>\n<p><strong><b>What is a Good Bug Report?<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A bug report is termed as good-one if it is clear, to-the-point and easy to understand which include only one bug and not point to a collection of bugs. A good bug report must have the below format:<\/p>\n<p><strong><b>1. Numbered &#8211;<\/b><\/strong>\u00a0Every bug in the Bug Report should be uniquely numbered so that it will be easy for everyone to identify the issues.<\/p>\n<p><strong><b>2. Specific &#8211; <\/b><\/strong>The bug reported\u00a0should be clear, concise and to-the-point.\u00a0Avoid using unnecessary details in the bug description.<\/p>\n<p><strong><b>3. Reproducible &#8211; <\/b><\/strong>The process to reproduce the bug should be described clearly in steps because if a developer is not able to reproduce a\u00a0bug than\u00a0it will never gets\u00a0fixed.<\/p>\n<p><strong><b>4. Results &#8211; <\/b><\/strong>It should have the expected result and\u00a0the actual result<\/p>\n<p>To create a good report you should take the\u00a0screenshots of the failures or errors occurred to highlight the defect\/bug. In\u00a0a good bug report, tester should use suggestive tone\u00a0instead of a commanding tone\u00a0with\u00a0the developer and do not assume on its own that the developer did a mistake,\u00a0so bug report should not use bold words\u00a0directly. The bug report should\u00a0clearly\u00a0state that\u00a0where the bug was identified so that it can be easily reproduced by the developer. These tools even help testers to maintain the bug duplicacy because all these listed bugs can be reopened and assigned back to developer, if issues are getting regressed.<\/p>\n<p><strong><b>Reporting a Bug<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The basic format of a bug report should include the below mentioned data points:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><b>Reporter:<\/b><\/strong> Tester name and tester email address<\/li>\n<li><strong><b>Product Version:<\/b><\/strong> It state the product in which tester has found the bug and version<\/li>\n<li><strong><b>Component:<\/b><\/strong> The component\u00a0or the module\u00a0of the product where the\u00a0tester identifies the\u00a0bug<\/li>\n<li><strong><b>Priority:<\/b><\/strong> Priority defines the importance of the reported bug. It\u00a0ranges from\u00a0P1 to P3. (P1 priority bugs are considered as the highest priority means \u2018fix the bug quickly\u2019 and\u00a0same way\u00a0P3\u00a0bugs are considered as the least priority means \u2018fix it when you have time\u2019)<\/li>\n<li><strong><b>Severity:<\/b><\/strong> Severity is termed as a blocker, critical, major, minor, trivial. It also defines the importance of the bugs, if a bug\u2019s severity is blocker then it should be fixed on priority and if it is trivial then it can be fixed anytime<\/li>\n<li><strong><b>Status:<\/b><\/strong> It defines the current state of the bug i.e. OPEN, CLOSED, READY for DEV, DEV In Progress, QA READY, QA in PROGRESS<\/li>\n<li><strong><b>Assign To:<\/b><\/strong> Attach the name &amp; email of the developer if you know who is responsible for the component<\/li>\n<li><strong><b>URL:<\/b><\/strong> URL of the page where the actual bug occur<\/li>\n<li><strong><b>Summary:<\/b><\/strong> The summary of the bug report in less than 30 words<\/li>\n<li><strong><b>Description:<\/b><\/strong> This\u00a0is\u00a0where tester should state and describe the bug\u00a0with all the required device details<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><b>Tools for Bug Reporting<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For the bug reporting we can use any\u00a0of the tools like-\u00a0Bugzilla, Bugherd, JIRA, Marker\u00a0etc. Among all these tools Bugzilla and JIRA is widely used in the companies.\u00a0These tools are made to reduce the QA\u2019s efforts because these logged bugs are self explanatory and also help the QA\u2019s to maintain the bugs. Remember that a better bug report ensures that the issues listed in it will be fixed at the earliest.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ap-custom-wrapper\"><\/div><!--ap-custom-wrapper-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bug Reporting is a very major &amp; important part of the software testing. In Software Testing, Bug reporting is referred as the reporting of issues observed by the tester to the developer so that it should be fixed at the earliest. 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