Let's Make Bugs Miserable

Preventing and eliminating bugs is what quality is all about. Help! Call the virtual exterminator! From the moment a bug is created until it is killed or morphs into another bug, it goes through many stages in its "life." Anibal Sousa discusses what can be done to shorten a bug's life and offers a manageable bug-handling process, which can be used to track, prioritize, inspect, catalog, and fix bugs safely. A test manager at Microsoft, Anibal discloses best practices and recommendations for preventing simple bugs with check-in test and auto-daily builds with test automation, creating a bug database system, prioritizing and evaluating bugs correctly, killing the bugs and their siblings for good, and more. Let's make a bug's life miserable!