Can You Tell Me About Bug Life Cycle?

Bug is defined as software's abnormal behavior. Each soft-ware, which is produced or implemented, is not free from bugs. The finding and removal of bugs from the software is very tough but it all depends upon how effective testing of software is done.

Bug Life Cycle:
In software development there is a process of detecting bug and this process is known as Bug Life Cycle. In order to detect and remove the bugs this cycle should be followed. There are different stages in bug life cycle which are as follows.

1. New:
When the bug is send for the first time then its status will be set as NEW. This means that the bug is not checked and is not yet approved.

2. Open:  
The Test guide confirms if the bug is genuine or not and the status is changed to OPEN.

3. Assign:
After that the bug is assigned to developer so that the bug will be removed and the state of the bug changed to ASSIG.

4. Test:
After fixing the bug it tested before releasing the bug free software. And this testing is done by the testing team. The state of the bug changed to "TEST".

5. Deferred:
The bug state changed to "DEFERRED" means the bug will be fixed later on or in next releases. The reasons could be the bug is not have major effect on the software, don't have time and so on.

6. Rejected:
The bug state is changed to "REJECTED" if the bug is not genuine.

7. Duplicate:
The state changed to "DUPLICATE" if the bug is repeated or mentioned more than once.

8. Verified:
Once the bug is fixed and is tested and gives no error then the status is changed to "VERIFIED".

9. Reopened:
The state is changed to "REOPEN" If the bug still appears after the bug is fixed by the developer. The bug life cycle is repeated again.

10. Closed:
This state means that the bug is fixed, tested and verified by the developers.

A bug life cycle is=
1. The animal lays eggs.
2. The animal is in the egg.
3. The animal comes out of the egg, shell, or whatever.
4. The animal goes on to live happily.