Navigation:  Defect Manager > Add Defect

To Add a new Defect

From the "Edit" group, Click the "Add" button  

Defect Popup Editor will now be displayed:

The Editor is divided into the following two sections:

The Item Information Panel

contains peripheral information about the defect and the following fields are available for completion:

Project: The project for which the Defect belongs

Raised By: Enter the originator of the Defect

Date Raised: Enter the date the Defect was raised

[Tip] For all date fields, you can simply double click the box to enter today's date.

Priority: Select the priority of the Defect

Status: Select the Defect's of the Status from the drop down box

Workflow: Select the Defect's current Work flow position from the drop down box

Defect Group: Select the Type of defect such as "Observation", "Defect", "Feature Request" etc.

 

Reminder: Add a reminder to the calendar page.

Date Closed: Select the Date when the Defect was closed

Assigned To: Select who the Defect will be assigned to from the drop down box

Affected System: Select the System for which the defect was found

Compiler: Select the compiler used to build the system

LifeCycle: Select the current life cycle phase of your project

System Ver: Select the Current version if the system for which the defect was found

 

Subject: Enter a single line of text that best describes the defect

Reference: The reference number automatically generated by project assistant.

Note 1:

Do not edit this directly, To adjust the reference number, use the spin button marked "Change Number" to ther desired number.

 

Note 2:

When the editor information is saved, the reference number allocated will be checked one more time before being committed, if the reference number is now being used, then the number will be adjusted up accordingly. This can happen when an editor is open for a long time without being saved and another instance of Project Assistant add a new record while the editor is open

Create Link Panel

here it is possible to link the defect report to a Configuration Item (CI), such that it will appear on the status report for that CI

Links Found Panel

The links found panel searches all the other registers for items that have been linked to the defect and are displayed in this panel. Here the query TQ-223 has been linked and is currently still active.

The Tabbed Panel

The tabbed Panel contains the following three tabs:

 

Defect Details Tab:

This section should be completed by the testing engineer and allows you to record the actual defect details

 

 

Defect Details: Free form editor to record the defect details

Safety Hazard: Check this box if the defect represents a hazard risk of either injury to personnel or damage to equipment.

Fix Details Tab:

This section should be completed by the developer and allows you to record the eventual fix details

 

 

Fix Group: Select the group which the defect belongs to such as Software Fault, Document Error etc.

Fix Build:   Enter the build number of the system for which this fix will be made available.

Fix Details: Free form editor to record the fix details

 

Test Details:

This section should be completed by the testing engineer and allows you to record information surrounding the test environment under which the defect occurred

 

Test Document: The reference of the document being used to validate the software.

Test Doc Rev: The revision of the document being used to validate the software.

Test Number: Enter the test number or clause that the system failed to comply with.

 

Operating System: Select the OS of the system being tested

Service Pack: Enter any service pack information

 

Click Save:

When you have entered all your information, then simply click the Save and Close button and the defect will be added and be visible to all users.

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