What are the Defect Life Cycle?

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What are the Defect Life Cycle?..

Answer / pavan kumar

Defect life cycle is also called as bug life cycle. It has 6
stages namely
1.new: found new bug
2.assigned: bud assigned to developer
3.open : developer is fixing the bug
4.fixed : developer has fixed the bug
5.retest: tester retests the application
6.closed/reopened: if it is ok tester gives closed staus
else he reopens and sends back to developer.

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What are the Defect Life Cycle?..

Answer / mudaseer

when test engineer catches a bug it will be of one of the stages given below
duplicate:means the test engineer has sent duplicate bug
not a defect:test engineer says it's a defect but developer says it is not a defect.then test engineer has to justify that it's a defect
not reproducible:test engineer has sent a bug.developer says not reproducible because environment in which development is checking is different.To avoid this the environment specifications should be given by the tester.
can't be fixed:test engineer has sent a bug but developer says that it can't be fixed because technology is not supporting
fixed in future release:no time to fix the minor bug
or bugs found doesn't affect latest release
request for enhancement:test engineer says it's a bug development team says that it is an enhancement

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