can any one please tell me the types of defects in s/w testing

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can any one please tell me the types of defects in s/w testing..

Answer / raghavendra chitral

We can categorise the defects mainly into four types based
on its impact customers business.

1. Blockers---Catastrophic failure
2. Critical ----Workarounds.
3. Major -----defect is there but alternative is also there
but requiring lot of work to achieve the task.
4. Minor---- Cosmetic failures

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can any one please tell me the types of defects in s/w testing..

Answer / panni

defects are 4 types
1. Fatal defect-if at all the problems are related to
navigational blocks or missing of any major feature in
application will considered as fatal defects.
2. Major defect-if at all the problems are related to not
working of major functionality in the application will be
treated as major defects.
3. Minor defect-if at all problems are related to GUI of the
application then that defects are treated as minor defects.
4. Suggestions-if at all problems are related to user
friendliness of the application then that defects are
treated as suggestions.

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can any one please tell me the types of defects in s/w testing..

Answer / rajesh pothina

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