Defect has following attributes:

1) Defect ID: Identifies defect as there are many defects might identified in system. a. i.e. D1, D2, etc.

2) Defect Name: Name of defect which explains the defect in brief. a. It must be short but descriptive. i.e. Login error.

3) Project Name: Indicates project name in which defect is found

4) Module /Sub-module name: for which the defect is found.

5) Phase introduced: Phase of life cycle to which the defect belongs to.

6) Phase found: Phase of project when the defect is found is added here. It is used to find defect leakage or stage.

7) Defect type: Defines defect type. i.e. security defect, functional defect, GUI defect etc.

8) Severity: Declared in test plan, i.e. high medium or low.

9) Priority: defines on the basis of how the project decides a schedule to take the defects for fixing.

10) Summary: Describes short about the defect.

11) Description: Describes it in detail.

12) Status: dynamic field, open, assigned, resolved, closed, hold, deferred, or reopened, etc.

13) Reported by/ Reported on: Who found defect, and on what date.

14) Assigned to: The tester is being assigned to some testing team member.

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