4 Defect Management

“If I extrapolate the current trend, then 100% of the 2017 release budget will be spent on contemplating changes, with 0% actual change.

On the positive side, this means testing the 2017 release will cost nothing.”

V.V.L., European test engineer.

Chapter 4, Defect Management, of the Advanced syllabus contains the following four sections:

1. Introduction

2. The Defect Lifecycle and the Software Development Lifecycle

3. Defect Report Information

4. Assessing Process Capability with Defect Report Information

4.1 Introduction

Learning objectives

Recall of content only

When some people think of defect management processes and tools, they think, “Oh, well, those are just things for the test team to worry about.” While it’s true ...

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