"Time between defect introduction/detection and closure" — in Defect, this describes which of the following?

defect age: Time between defect introduction/detection and closure.

"Critical defect blocking further testing or release" — in Defect, this describes which of the following?

showstopper: Critical defect blocking further testing or release.

"Existing defect not yet discovered or triggered" — in Defect, this describes which of the following?

latent defect: Existing defect not yet discovered or triggered.

"State when a supposedly fixed defect still occurs on retest" — in Defect, this describes which of the following?

reopened: State when a supposedly fixed defect still occurs on retest.

"Review meeting deciding defect priority and ownership" — in Defect, this describes which of the following?

triage: Review meeting deciding defect priority and ownership.

Identify the accurate statement about Defect:

A crash in a rarely used feature can be high severity, low priority.

Which statement correctly describes Defect?

A crash in a rarely used feature can be high severity, low priority.

Which of the following statements about Defect is TRUE?

A crash in a rarely used feature can be high severity, low priority.

"Defect already reported in another ticket" — in Defect, this describes which of the following?

duplicate: Defect already reported in another ticket.

In Defect, which of the following is described as: "Review meeting deciding defect priority and ownership"?

triage: Review meeting deciding defect priority and ownership.

Defect Management interview questions — Medium

295 medium-level Defect Management questions from our Manual Testing bank, each with the correct answer and an explanation of why it is correct.

What this covers

Defect Management appears throughout Manual Testing interviews. At medium level, interviewers are typically checking that you have used it in practice: what you configured, what broke, and how you knew it worked. Work through these, then explain your answer out loud; the second part is what interviews actually test.

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20 example questions

1. "Time between defect introduction/detection and closure" — in Defect, this describes which of the following?
- A. Reopened.
- B. Latent defect.
- C. Defect age.correct
- D. Triage.
Why: defect age: Time between defect introduction/detection and closure.
2. "Critical defect blocking further testing or release" — in Defect, this describes which of the following?
- A. Duplicate.
- B. Triage.
- C. Showstopper.correct
- D. Reopened.
Why: showstopper: Critical defect blocking further testing or release.
3. "Existing defect not yet discovered or triggered" — in Defect, this describes which of the following?
- A. Latent defect.correct
- B. Regression defect.
- C. Duplicate.
- D. Triage.
Why: latent defect: Existing defect not yet discovered or triggered.
4. "State when a supposedly fixed defect still occurs on retest" — in Defect, this describes which of the following?
- A. Reopened.correct
- B. Showstopper.
- C. Duplicate.
- D. Regression defect.
Why: reopened: State when a supposedly fixed defect still occurs on retest.
5. "Review meeting deciding defect priority and ownership" — in Defect, this describes which of the following?
- A. Latent defect.
- B. Showstopper.
- C. Triage.correct
- D. Regression defect.
Why: triage: Review meeting deciding defect priority and ownership.
6. Identify the accurate statement about Defect:
- A. Root cause analysis aims to assign personal blame rather than prevent recurrence.
- B. Severity measures technical impact while priority measures business urgency of fixing.correct
- C. Defect density counts test cases per tester.
- D. A defect report should exclude the steps to reproduce for brevity.
Why: A crash in a rarely used feature can be high severity, low priority.
7. Which statement correctly describes Defect?
- A. Root cause analysis aims to assign personal blame rather than prevent recurrence.
- B. A defect report should exclude the steps to reproduce for brevity.
- C. Severity measures technical impact while priority measures business urgency of fixing.correct
- D. Defect density counts test cases per tester.
Why: A crash in a rarely used feature can be high severity, low priority.
8. Which of the following statements about Defect is TRUE?
- A. Severity and priority are guaranteed to always be identical.
- B. Defect density counts test cases per tester.
- C. Severity measures technical impact while priority measures business urgency of fixing.correct
- D. Root cause analysis aims to assign personal blame rather than prevent recurrence.
Why: A crash in a rarely used feature can be high severity, low priority.
9. "Defect already reported in another ticket" — in Defect, this describes which of the following?
- A. Defect age.
- B. Showstopper.
- C. Duplicate.correct
- D. Regression defect.
Why: duplicate: Defect already reported in another ticket.
10. In Defect, which of the following is described as: "Review meeting deciding defect priority and ownership"?
- A. Triage.correct
- B. Reopened.
- C. Latent defect.
- D. Duplicate.
Why: triage: Review meeting deciding defect priority and ownership.
11. In Defect, which of the following is described as: "Time between defect introduction/detection and closure"?
- A. Regression defect.
- B. Reopened.
- C. Defect age.correct
- D. Latent defect.
Why: defect age: Time between defect introduction/detection and closure.
12. Which Defect concept matches this description: "Time between defect introduction/detection and closure"?
- A. Latent defect.
- B. Showstopper.
- C. Defect age.correct
- D. Reopened.
Why: defect age: Time between defect introduction/detection and closure.
13. In Defect, which of the following is described as: "Critical defect blocking further testing or release"?
- A. Showstopper.correct
- B. Latent defect.
- C. Regression defect.
- D. Triage.
Why: showstopper: Critical defect blocking further testing or release.
14. Which Defect concept matches this description: "State when a supposedly fixed defect still occurs on retest"?
- A. Showstopper.
- B. Regression defect.
- C. Duplicate.
- D. Reopened.correct
Why: reopened: State when a supposedly fixed defect still occurs on retest.
15. In the context of Defect, which of the following is a correct statement?
- A. Severity and priority are guaranteed to always be identical.
- B. Defect density counts test cases per tester.
- C. Root cause analysis aims to assign personal blame rather than prevent recurrence.
- D. A typo on the company homepage is typically low severity but high priority.correct
Why: Business visibility drives priority independent of technical impact.
16. Which Defect concept matches this description: "New defect introduced by a recent change to working code"?
- A. Showstopper.
- B. Latent defect.
- C. Regression defect.correct
- D. Reopened.
Why: regression defect: New defect introduced by a recent change to working code.
17. Which Defect concept matches this description: "Review meeting deciding defect priority and ownership"?
- A. Triage.correct
- B. Latent defect.
- C. Reopened.
- D. Defect age.
Why: triage: Review meeting deciding defect priority and ownership.
18. Which Defect concept matches this description: "Critical defect blocking further testing or release"?
- A. Regression defect.
- B. Duplicate.
- C. Showstopper.correct
- D. Latent defect.
Why: showstopper: Critical defect blocking further testing or release.
19. In Defect, which of the following is described as: "State when a supposedly fixed defect still occurs on retest"?
- A. Defect age.
- B. Duplicate.
- C. Reopened.correct
- D. Triage.
Why: reopened: State when a supposedly fixed defect still occurs on retest.
20. Which Defect concept matches this description: "Existing defect not yet discovered or triggered"?
- A. Regression defect.
- B. Defect age.
- C. Latent defect.correct
- D. Triage.
Why: latent defect: Existing defect not yet discovered or triggered.

Defect Management interview questions — Medium

What this covers

20 example questions

1. "Time between defect introduction/detection and closure" — in Defect, this describes which of the following?

2. "Critical defect blocking further testing or release" — in Defect, this describes which of the following?

3. "Existing defect not yet discovered or triggered" — in Defect, this describes which of the following?

4. "State when a supposedly fixed defect still occurs on retest" — in Defect, this describes which of the following?

5. "Review meeting deciding defect priority and ownership" — in Defect, this describes which of the following?

6. Identify the accurate statement about Defect:

7. Which statement correctly describes Defect?

8. Which of the following statements about Defect is TRUE?

9. "Defect already reported in another ticket" — in Defect, this describes which of the following?

10. In Defect, which of the following is described as: "Review meeting deciding defect priority and ownership"?

11. In Defect, which of the following is described as: "Time between defect introduction/detection and closure"?

12. Which Defect concept matches this description: "Time between defect introduction/detection and closure"?

13. In Defect, which of the following is described as: "Critical defect blocking further testing or release"?

14. Which Defect concept matches this description: "State when a supposedly fixed defect still occurs on retest"?

15. In the context of Defect, which of the following is a correct statement?

16. Which Defect concept matches this description: "New defect introduced by a recent change to working code"?

17. Which Defect concept matches this description: "Review meeting deciding defect priority and ownership"?

18. Which Defect concept matches this description: "Critical defect blocking further testing or release"?

19. In Defect, which of the following is described as: "State when a supposedly fixed defect still occurs on retest"?

20. Which Defect concept matches this description: "Existing defect not yet discovered or triggered"?

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