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how do the companies expect the defect reporting to be communicated by the tester to the development team. Can the excel sheet template be used for defect reporting. If so what are the common fields that are to be included ? who assigns the priority and severity of the defect

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154. how do the companies expect the defect reporting to be communicated by the tester to the development team. Can the excel sheet template be used for defect reporting. If so what are the common fields that are to be included ? who assigns the priority and severity of the defect

To report bugs in excel:
Sno. Module Screen/ Section Issue detail Severity
Prioriety Issue status

this is how to report bugs in excel sheet and also set filters on the Columns attributes.

But most of the companies use the share point process of reporting bugs In this when the project came for testing a module wise detail of project is inserted to the defect managment system they are using. It contains following field
1. Date
2. Issue brief
3. Issue discription(used for developer to regenerate the issue)
4. Issue status( active, resolved, on hold, suspend and not able to regenerate)
5. Assign to (Names of members allocated to project)
6. Prioriety(High, medium and low)
7. severity (Major, medium and low)


Please article entitled "Bug Tracking Basics"
How do I track a defect? What tool should I use to track defects?
http://link.fyicenter.com/view.php?ID=761


How to Report Bugs Effectively
http://link.fyicenter.com/view.php?ID=762


A Bug's Life Cycle
http://link.fyicenter.com/view.php?ID=763


Problem Management Tools Summary
http://link.fyicenter.com/view.php?ID=328


Defect Tracking Tools
http://link.fyicenter.com/view.php?ID=764

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