At the end of the old year and the beginning of the New Year, CODING R&D management system has ushered in a major update. The long-awaited defect management function of CODING has officially started public testing, which helps developers and testers better track and manage software defects and provides software development efficiency.

In the life cycle of any software, defects caused by different reasons are almost inevitable. As a link in the CODING one-stop DevOps tool chain, the defect management function of CODING helps enterprise R&D teams to quickly establish a set of efficient defect feedback and tracking mechanism. Through efficient standardization process instead of a lot of businesses use professional tools, such as to-do by defect type, the module information, such as priority tags help agent to locate and understand the problem quickly, so that greatly reduce extra time to repair due to communication, and can effectively reduce the negative effects due to the software defect.

How to use CODING’s defect management capabilities

The defect management function of CODING R&D management system involves defect lifecycle management, including defect creation, reproduction, repair, validation, re-opening/closing of defects, statistical analysis and reporting. The purpose is to reduce the probability of software defects and reduce the negative impact caused by software defects. The defect management module mainly includes four main functions: defect list, defect processing, statistics and setting.

In the left navigation bar of the CODING R&D management system, the defect management interface is displayed. When you use it for the first time, you will be prompted to create the first defect.

Create a defect, fill in the defect name and describe the defect in detail and upload necessary screenshots or attach. After you complete the defect information, select the defect type. The predefined defect types include performance problem, security problem, ease-of-use problem, UI problem, and functional defect. You can customize defect types and modules through the setting interface.

After entering the setting interface, you can add and modify the defect type according to the project situation.

After clicking the owning module, the functional module can be defined according to the project situation to better help the operator to locate defects.

After completing the module setting, you can return to the defect page and click the defect to view the complete information. Meanwhile, you can select the real-time progress in the upper status bar and supplement the progress in the bottom message area.

Finally, on the statistics page, you can clearly see the status statistics and trend statistics of all defects in the project and the tasks handled by individuals. The intuitive presentation of the project helps managers to better plan and summarize the project.

For enterprises in digital transformation, the investment in defect management can greatly reduce the waste of manpower, financial resources and time caused by the lack of standard process, and at the same time, improve the customer sample of products and help the R&D team to deliver software faster and more efficiently. Through the defect management function of CODING R&D management system, defect management can be better and more efficient so as to help enterprises improve product quality, accelerate delivery time and increase corporate income. At the same time, with the development of other functional modules of CODING management system, so that enterprises can start to practice DevOps methodology with the lowest time and personnel cost.

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