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Figure5.17 depicts the life cycle stages of a bug, in the context of Bugzilla (version 3.0).
Figure 5.18 presents a sample XML report, which provides information regarding
a defect, reported in the browser product of Mozilla project (http://www.bugzilla.
mozilla.org).
The following elds are contained in the above bug report record:
• Bug ID: This is the unique ID assigned to each bug reported in the software
system.
• Bug status: This eld contains information about the current status or state of the
bug. Some of the possible values include unconrmed, assigned, resolved, and so on.
The status whiteboard ...