What is the difference between Defect Management Tool and Test Management Tool?

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Permalink Reply by Manoj on March 5, 2010 at 4:42pm

Hi mohan,

The defect managment tool should also be part of the test management tool, as it will be easy to trace withe test cases. whats u r say?

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Permalink Reply by Girisha surappa on March 5, 2010 at 5:10pm

Hi Pallvi,

Defect Management tool only deals with the defect tools like bugzilla, Jira..etc
But the Test management deals with all test activity start form requirement, Test scripts, Test execution, Defect management and tools like Quality center, Test Director.

Defect management is also part of test management.

Hope this will help you,

Cheers,
Girish

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Permalink Reply by koteswara rao on March 7, 2010 at 2:11pm

Defect management is in part of Test management .

EX: QC , Iplan( Used in EMirates airlines ) are the testmanagement tool .

which includes Requirements ( SRS , SDD doc as per sprint wide ) , Releases ( phase wide doc mapped from req)
Testplan ( includes the testcases maintainance ) , Testlab ( includes the testcase execution ) , Defects ( Defect / CR /spec issue maintainance ) and This last tab called Defect management tool )

Thanks .

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Permalink Reply by Kiran Kumar on March 8, 2010 at 10:33am

Defect Management Tool is used to track the defects only.

Test Management Tool is used to plan tests, track requirements, test cases development, monitoring requirements coverage, test cases execution (manually), defect tracking and reporting.

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Permalink Reply by Madhuri on March 8, 2010 at 2:14pm

I agree with Kiran's reply.

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Permalink Reply by Anil R Ojha on March 8, 2010 at 5:02pm

Iam not sure whether Iam correct but according to me Test management Tool is used to for tracking Requirement , making test plan and also execution test plan and bug reporting.

Defect management is tool to track the severity of bugs in each Phase wherein the project manger address all the severity of issues and it status in tool.

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