What are the Best Methods to find and Fix Bugs?

Each tester has its way to find and fix bugs, and they evaluate and check software based on their understanding of the requirements. There are few essential points which each tester should keep in mind to ensure full test coverage and finding maximum defects. Here is the list:

1. Understanding the requirements

Requirements are vital as it provides in-depth knowledge about the feature to be implemented.  The testers sometimes lack the understanding of the features that makes it challenging to find and fix bugs. Developers in the team have maximum know-how about the product. Testers can ask for a brief of meetings as even a small point can help in identifying a critical bug. The team of testers can also refer to technical documents and user stories to take reference for expected outcomes. It also gives in-depth understanding.

Discussing the technical aspects of the feature can also be used as a reference for software testing. Effective communication enables getting a good understanding of products on testers as well as the consumer side. The testers should think like end-user to exploit the functionality to uncover maximum defects in the system. Testers thus have a big responsibility on their shoulders to be thoughtful about each feature and its functionality. They should completely understand the underlying technology to be able to fix the maximum number of bugs in the system.

2. Planning test scenarios

Planning test scenarios is an essential part of bug finding as the quality of test cases maps to the test results impacting the overall testing strategy. It will also lead to more stable software. The happy path and error path scenarios should be equally distributed. The effort on the alternate path scenario and creative ad-hoc scenario should be considered. Also, there should be multiple reviews for the test scenarios before incorporating them into test cases.

3. Investigating problems in the setup

It is always advised to test and evaluate the infrastructure first before starting the testing. There are plenty of defects that occur due to improper infrastructure setup.

4. Testing techniques to find software issues 

Testing to fix the errors and improvising the quality of code. Testers should always drill down to the deepest levels to uncover maximum bugs. The focus is to test to a limit where the system could break.

5. Testing the Happy path scenario 

Testers must spend a considerable amount of time testing the happy path scenario. They can keep a few days separate to ensure developers have ample time to fix the bugs of unit test and happy path,

The error path testing is also crucial to uncover significant bugs in the system. Testers should perform ad-hoc and negative testing.

They can also touch base with the developers to discuss and open the bug when they are sure about it.

6. Information on Logs and Run Logs 

Maintaining logs can also help in fixing bugs faster. A bug and issue tracking tool can be of great help to testers for tracking bugs of the system. They should always keep an eye on logging the defects in the system as redundant bugs can waste a lot of testing time.

Run logs that have all the details about test scenarios run.

It includes the following information: 

• Performance under specific conditions
• Expected output
• Actual output
• Flows followed by the tester
• Defect information of any particular scenario.

Conclusion

The information that can influence testers to develop the right mindset is needed for ensuring a high-quality product.