Mumbai University > Information Technology > Sem 8 > Software Testing and Quality Assurance

Marks: 10 Marks

Difficulty : Medium

• A Bug is synonymous to the word fault. it is a condition that in actual causes a system to produce failure.

• The whole life cycle of a bug can be classified into two phases:

1) Bugs - in phase

2) Bugs - out phase

Bugs - in phase:

• in this phase the errors and bugs are introduced in the software

• whenever a mistake is committed, it creates errors on a specific location of the software and consequently when this error goes unnoticed it causes some conditions to fail, leading to a bug in the software.

• This bug is carried out to the subsequent phases of SDLC, If not detected. thus, a phase may have its own errors as well as bugs received from the previous phase.

• If verification is not performed on earlier phases, then there is no chance of detecting these bugs.

Bugs - out phase:

• If failure occurs while testing a software product it means it is affected by bugs

• In this phase, when failure are observed the following activities are performed to get rid of the bugs

1) Bug classification:

• In this part the failures are observed and the bugs are classified according to their nature.

• A bug can be critical or catastrophic in nature or it may have no adverse effect on the output behavior of the software

• The categorization of bugs may help by handling critically bugs first and considering other trivial bugs on the list later if time permits.

2) Bug isolation:

• It is an actively by which the modules are located in which the bug appears.

• In this, the symptoms are observed, the software design is back-traced and the module/files and the conditions inside it are reached which has caused the bug.

3) Bug Resolution:

• Once the bug is isolated, the design is back - traced to pinpoint the location of the error.

• In this way, a bug is resolved when the exact location of its occurrence is found.