Questions tagged [bugs]
For questions which are related to bugs. Bugs are errors, issues, problems, or faults that cause unexpected result or behavior in a system.
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Is it sound project management practice to make software engineers fix bugs "off the clock"?
I work in a largish, multi-team software development shop that builds a vertical B2B solution suite for a highly regulated domain. We are trying to become more Agile; we are iterating better than we ...
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Should bugs be treated as stories or as tasks?
If you're using scrum you should know that there is a clear difference between tasks and stories. A story is something that is valuable to user. A task is a step to produce that value to user.
So, ...
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Should defects flow through the Kanban board, or should they be tracked as issues?
One of the things that I'm still trying to wrap my head around is defect tracking.
Should we put defects on the Board and track them alongside the other items (new features, refactoring work etc), ...
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How do I overcome a bottleneck in a team's process, when what people are telling me doesn't match what I see
I started a new job a few months ago as a scrum master.
The team was and still is having problems completing their tasks during the sprint.
Initially the problems seemed to be tasks that were too ...
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Handling bugs in the Scrum process?
I have recently gone live with a big project. To meet a tight deadline some technical debt was accumulated but the true extent only became apparent after go live.
As this is intended to be a ...
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What are best practices for bug tracking?
I was looking for some information on bug tracking best practices, but the Google search on this topic wasn't as helpful as I wished; I mainly found about software issues such as writing good bug ...
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Do you track the cause of bugs?
I was thinking of tagging resolved cases by their (probable) cause, e.g.
incomplete feature specification
last-minute fix after test
typo
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Maybe common causes might show up in this, so we get ...
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Scrum and interruptions (urgent bugs, requests)
Does Scrum take into account interruptions? For example:
urgent bugs from production environment
requests from other teams
This is very important in real development process.
In practice of Scrum ...
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Best Metrics to Show the Value of Fixing Bugs
My software development group has spent a significant amount of time recently on fixing existing bugs instead of working on new development.
Using our bug tracking software, I can get data on how ...
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How to improve and facilitate prioritization of bug fixes?
In a long-term software project with frequent releases, end-users regularly report bugs and defects in the product. When the reported bug is highly critical, the fix is generally developed and ...
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How to manage very small, easy tasks in Agile?
Let's say you have a bug on your website. Your developer needs to fix some CSS or something. He estimates it will take him one minute to fix.
What is the best way to manage these kinds of tasks? Do ...
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Do you consider a defect an actual defect if it occurs in Dev prior to the acceptance of the User Story as Done?
A fully agile centric question.
If an exception, error, defect or bug occurs prior to the completion of a user story; do you log it is a bug or do simply consider part of the work required to make ...
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Should bug/regression tickets be reopened, or new tickets created?
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This is a paradox I have: when I create GitHub Issues (or JIRA tickets, or whatever issue tracker you use), my engineers like to make them very granular, so that it narrows the scope down ...
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Tracking points spent on bugs during sprint
The product owner wants to keep track on how much points are spent on bugs during a sprint. This can raise some issues, such as:
Scoring a task that is already done. Surprisingly even with it done, ...
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Should we demo bug fixes in sprint demos?
We have been asked to demo almost all bugs in our sprint demo, except the bugs which were raised for the stories of the sprint. Some teams only demo critical bug fixes, probably to reassure others ...
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Defect Found in Previous Iteration - Bug or New Work?
A previous answer stated that:
On the other hand, if Feature Bar met the Definition of Done in a previous iteration, but bugs were later found after the feature was declared "done," then while you ...
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Should defect criticality change based on user needs?
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Is it correct to assume that the criticality of a defect can change along with the project's progress? If so, when is this acceptable?
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Criticality is one of the indexes we've ...
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How do we prevent debates over whether changes to user stories are new work or bugs?
I'm struggling to determine where capturing of user story elaborations and discussions fits into agile. A lot of what I have read and agree with is:
You should be focusing on discussions with your ...
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How to deal with overhead of QA logging bugs that POs aren't interested in fixing?
Many times I've observed bugs being logged against particular stories that takes Product Owners a lot of time to triage that don't end up being important enough to fix. Either it's an acceptable ...
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Where should I keep track of open items from previous sprints?
I have been throwing "things that team will do later" (TTWDL) into the product backlog along with product functionality to be implemented. Needless to say it is now long and full of bugs/ tasks from ...
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metrics for bug fixing / learning legacy system
We are a new team of about a dozen developers in our not-very-IT company tasked with reshoring/onshoring/insourcing (bringing into the company what a vendor has developed for us) a large (10M+ LOC?) ...
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Things to consider when a deployment goes wrong
I just launched a big web infrastructure project which has resulted in a lot of inconsistency in the users' feedback on their experiences.
Many of the users are not that web-savvy, and, due to ...
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Where can I find a free website for managing closed source project development? [closed]
Is there any free webpage/web application for managing project development with these requirements:
Writing public posts of news about project (new version, new logic
etc) - can be as blog posts.
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How to manage projects/to-do lists efficiently?
We are a software company being outsourced by another company. Procedures for meetings, new projects, and to-do lists are emails, emails and more emails; no calling, no skyping, just emails.
By this ...
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Extend Sprints or take the renaming tasks to a new Sprint?
I am a rookie PM. We are conducting a Sprint with selected tasks from the backlog, when suddenly critical bugs appear. Should we extend the Sprint, or finish the Sprint on the delivery date and move ...
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Scrum team is dependent on other team's work
I'm working in a big project, where we're creating a standard software A for several customers and in parallel extending that software for one customer (software B). There are several Scrum teams. The ...
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How to Record Bugs Following User Story Completion - in Large Projects
We run scrum agile methodology and have a development environment for development. At the end of each sprint, we close off all the tasks/stories that have been completed and promote the code/system to ...
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Production bugs and epics in Jira
We are trying to organize our epics in a better way. In the past, the epics remained indefinitely open on Jira. Every production support/bug ticket will be added to the exsiting epic. However, since ...
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How to deal with delay beween development and deploy
I'm not sure if this question is a duplicate but couldn't find anything of the sort even though it seems to be a common issue, so if it is a duplicate, excuse me for my inefficiency at searching ...
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Deal with unestimated Defect-Tasks in Sprint for Veloctity calculation
As said many times before (1, 2, 3):
"Do not estimate bugs / defects".
I know in Scrum we try to minimize the defect rate, but it happens now and then. Fixing such unestimated tasks might have ...
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How to plan for bugs, looking for advice
I work in a software development company, where we use something which resembles scrum.
We have sprints of 4 weeks
We have 6 sprints / release
We plan a development per sprint, with an estimate
We ...
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Predicting software errors
There are two distinct projects where we are trying to define a bug prediction model.
We used bug at file level and defined co-factors:
Number of changes per file,
Developers who left per file.
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Title/subject formalism in bug reports (standardising bug naming only): I was <context>, I did <action>, I got <actual behaviour>
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We use different formalisms in titles/subjects for different purposes (story, feature, test), but we have no formalism for bug reports...
We are investigating the advantages of a standardised ...
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How do you associate a bug identified after customer acceptance with the relevant epic?
In my understanding there are two kinds of bugs:
Bugs that are identified before an acceptance by the client
Bugs that are identified afterwards
In JIRA I think it is necessary to associate bug type ...
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Should I word backlog items as what's broken or what work needs to be done?
We have a software project that we are trying to implement some basic project management for and we're starting simple, just using a Trello kanban board to track bugs/feature requests. I am beginning ...
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Agile Estimation - How to estimate for bugs? [closed]
The story points can be used for estimate user stories and tasks will be marked in hours in Visual Studios.
When there is a critical bug (which is not in the backlog, reported by users) we ...
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How to manage a failed sub team inside a scrum team
Our scrum squad consist with three teams (Back-End, Front-End, QA). Each team expertised in their own set of technological stack and of their own code bases (repositories).
I'm aware that cohesive ...
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Zero bug software development?
We are looking into a zero bug policy, but I wondered how best to represent this in sprint planning.
Should we be planning some 'empty' story points to cover this work? Does anyone else do this? If ...
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How should be best discussed bug between team/scrum master/PO
Edit: Definition of "bug". Here I describe as bug a bug introduced during development or missing/incorrect implementation of a story found after acceptance of the story. Our team does not face "...
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Bug Reporting and Revenue Impacting Bugs
I'm new to project management and trying to get a grasp on it. My latest challenge is bug reporting. I created a bug reporting form that contains standard questions:
Summary
Steps to Reproduce
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Introducing scrum in a waterfall environment
We have a wish to try to introduce Scrum in one of our development departments, but have a number of challenges we are not sure how to solve. If someone could point us in the right direction it would ...
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Can QA test in-progress tasks? How are bugs reported for incomplete stories?
I have recently been moved to a new team. There are a lot of practices that I think are not on terms with the Scrum Guide but for now I want to discuss two strange practices.
While we developers are ...
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What are the priority quality practices?
I have recently joined a small software development team that has 1 product with multiple external customers. There is no specific project management methodology or framework being used, so ...
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Bug Vs Feature Development
Not sure if this has already been discussed, if yes please point me out appropriately.
I am a Product manager in at a software firm. We are developing a mobile application. We are developing 2 ...
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How to measure bug incidence in Production?
We have a fully automated deploy process but as we now sometimes we break things.
When this happens the developer just apply a hot fix in (branch, fix and opens a PR) the trunk development. As you ...
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Collect bugs/issues in Next-Gen Jira Software projects
I'm trying to find the proper way to collect bugs/issues in Jira's next-gen projects. Looks like this feature has been requested by many users.
How other PM's are dealing with bugs in this case?
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What is a healthy ratio of [time spent on bugs]/[total time spent on project]?
As a metric of software quality, we calculated the ratio in the Title.
The value of this KPI should have the following meaning:
0 (0%) = no work on bug, this means that all the time spent on the ...
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Fix for ProjectLibre incorrect critical path
I'm a big open source supporter, and want to switch from MS Project to ProjectLibre, however it does not display the critical path correctly for projects above a certain size. I'm wondering if anyone ...
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Solving which bugs will give greatest cost benefit
I wanted to get an idea of categorizing bugs based on how easy is it to solve and how much benefit it will give me. for e.g., if there is a bug which will take say an hour (double file close etc.) to ...
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Who bears the cost of bug fixing in an Agile project?
I'm new to Agile projects.
How do you manage the cost of bug fixing? Does the customer pays for that effort or the software factory?
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