Answer / baba

Tracing a Defect is nothing but Deviation of the Customer
requirement in the application.

If Customer Requirement is not performing its function or
not available in application, i.e. called Defect.

Defect Tracking means... Ensure that the Defect is related
to which Test Case. You should able to find which defect is
related to which Requirement, Tracking the defect with
respect to Test Cases... you can maintain the documents
with Hyperlinks to desired Documents

for e.g. Functional Requirement Specifications Document
Use Case document
Master Test Case Document
Detailed Test Case Document
Defect Profile Document
if you maintain according to your desired documents with
hyperlink, you can easily Trace back Which Defect is
related to which Requirement...

Answer / sumathy

Through Traceability matrix we can trace which part of the
software(requirement) is failed(defect).

Traceability Matrix:
Traceability matrix is a document defines mapping between
customer requirements and prepared test cases.

Answer / santoshnathan

Implementing the concerned test cases on the concerned
functionalities ,If it behaves as per the customer
requirement.We can conclude that it has no defect,otherwise
it is a defect

Answer / rasul

Tracing a defect means...

what is the status of the defect in its life cycle and, for
which requirement and which test case it is reported as
defect!

we can trace a defect using a defect traking tool,r by
using a excel sheet.

Answer / varadaraj

As soon as u find a defect.you will track that defect Using
a Bug Tracker tool and give the Status as New.If the
Developer Fixes he gives the status as Fixed.After Fixing
the tester will retest and give the status as Closed(If he
feels defect is fixed).the Entire Process will be carried
out in a Bug Tracking Tool(depends on the Company which
tool tey are using).

Answer / devki

Thanx 4 reply..
but i need some more info.. i'll reword my q "What is
defect tracing? how it' done?"

Answer / anuradha

tracking the defect means trace the defect to it's complete
life cycle . I mean to say if tester find the defect (
deviation from requirement ) he/she will assign it to
developer with priority & severity . Developer fixed it in
these procedure defect has lot of status like new , open ,
reopen , fixed, differed , rejected , verified ,closed .TO
keep the track of defect from new to closed is called
defect trace

Answer / sudarshan

if the application doesnot process as given in the BRS and
SRS Documents.

Answer / vasudev

Anything which is
- Wrong
- Missing
- Extra

in application from SRS and FRS

Answer / ceenu

while doing testing if any action is not performed, we say
it is a defect. it will send to developer to fix

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