How to Write an Effective Defect or Bug Report

Writing an effective Defect/Bug Report is very important from Testing perspective. It’s communicating the software defects/bugs to the development team and stakeholders.

The following are the guidelines, one can keep in mind before writing a Bug Report.

• Write steps clearly, in a way that anyone without the knowledge of the software/application can reproduce the bug.


• Title should be brief and communicate the exact bug behaviour.


• Mention the exact environment in which the bug is reproducible.


• One report for one bug. Don’t mention multiple bugs in a single report.


• Report all the bugs even the trivial.


• Attach the relevant proofs like screenshot, video, crash log.


• Assign clear Severity and Priority as per the bug.


• Separate fact from speculation.


• Don’t target anyone in the report, it should be generic.


• Mention additional observations separately in a different section in the report.

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How to Write an Effective Defect or Bug Report