Ah.. Everyone must be aware of the bug life cycle (if not there is a very interesting article here 🙂 ). Also, I believe all my fellow testers would be aware of the term deferred bug. But, what is deferred bug? Want to know..Let’s read ahead —>>
DEFERRED BUG is a very common term used in the Software industry during product development and release phase.
Functional testing team usually report lot of bugs while testing any application and sometimes it becomes quite difficult for the development team to fix all bugs in overhead release due to time constraints or business requirements.
Hence, During bug triage meetings, Product management team review the bugs and segregate the bugs which don’t need to be fixed immediately for the release due to below mentioned reasons and decides to defer them for future releases.
- Low severity and low priority bugs
- Bugs impacting existing functionality, however workaround exists for the scenario.
- Existing bugs reported in the previous releases
- UI issues on specific platform(Operating system, hardware etc.)
- Edge cases
If development team defers any bug, its responsibility of testers to bring into notice with Product management team to take the final decision. Target version of such defects should be updated in bug reporting system so that such defects could be considered and fixed in upcoming or maintenance releases.
Ref : Taken from here