Why Don’t I Use Defect Tracking? No Need, I do real Continuous Testing.

Replicate a new defect with automated tests, then add it to the regression suite that runs in a Continuous Testing process

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Those teams who are spending hours every day on a defect-tracking system (DTS), such as Quality Center, may get offended by the title of this article. Here, I borrow quotes from some of the world’s leading experts to support my view.

The answers to track/fix the bugs, from these three highly-claimed books, are the same: creating an automated test to replicate the bug, so that you don’t need to log it in DTS. Here, I would like to share my own experience of practising this in the past decades.