Software Testing Tutorial #45 – How to Write a Good Defect Report

In this Software Testing Tutorial, we will learn about how to write a good defect report. A defect report is a document to communicate the defects or bugs you find in the test application during the software development lifecycle.

Defects are managed in defect management tools like Bugzilla, Jira etc. Documenting defects properly with relevant information is crucial for the defects to be understood clearly by developers and fixed without being rejected. In this tutorial we will learn how what are the key information you should include when writing good bug reports in software testing.