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Bug in a circle with a line through it Stop Hoarding Bugs and Clean Up Your Backlog

Many testing organizations have bugs sitting in their bug-tracking tool gathering dust. The issues aren't high-priority enough to fix immediately, but no one wants to close them because they might get around to fixing them eventually. This is a hoarder mentality! You need to organize and declutter your bug backlog.

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Jerry Penner
Use and Abuse of the Bug Tracker

Although there seems to be an increasing number of teams who opt not to use bug trackers, bug trackers are still used in the vast majority of information technology shops. If you are going to use a bug tracker, it's important to be aware of what it is—and is not—good at.

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Rick Scott
Bug Management: Don't Confuse the Tools with the Strategy

It's important to have good tools, including bug trackers, but do we overrate the significance of the bug tracker and overlook where it actually sits in the larger picture of defect management? Tools should be just one part of your bug-management strategy.

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Rick Scott