From the course: Software Testing Foundations: Bug Writing and Management
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Archiving old bugs - Jira Tutorial
From the course: Software Testing Foundations: Bug Writing and Management
Archiving old bugs
- [Narrator] Long after the dust has settled and the project is complete it may be time to begin the archive process. You are going to take your entire collection of issues discovered during your testing and move them to an archive state in your database. That process is different in every bug tracking tool, but effectively, it's putting your bugs into cold storage. When a bug is fixed and the product is released, the old issues are archived to allow development to shift focus on new projects. This isn't to say the project is disappearing, it's simply being put on the shelf and taken out of the view of development. This process is important from a lot of different perspectives. First of all, it's a historical record of the work you completed on the project. Over time, management may want to know how many projects you completed over a specific time to allocate resources for budgets and head count. Agile teams trying to…
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