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The TeamPulse Bug Tracking Module supports the complete process of creating, triaging and assigning bugs. This bug management workflow allows team members to address bugs more efficiently and spend less time dealing with reported issues.

1. Write a description using rich text formatting
2. Use tags
3. Set status, estimate, severity, priority, and assigned to
4. Leave comments
5. Associate bugs to areas and iterations
6. Specify steps to reproduce the bug
7. Define resolution criteria
8. Define acceptance criteria
9. Relate bugs to User Stories
10. Add links and attachments

Why it's important to get new bugs triaged

Triage is the process, in which bugs are reviewed and priority is assigned to them based on severity, frequency and other factors. In TeamPulse during the triage process you can assign status, estimate, area and severity of bugs, as well as specify steps to reproduce the bug and acceptance criteria. This ensures not only that developers work on the highest priority bugs, but also that they have all the required information to locate the problem quickly.

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Manage bugs according to best practices with the Best Practices Analyzer

Unlike other solutions which just passively capture data, TeamPulse always you to analyze your project data with the Best Practices Analyzer and find out if it conforms to best practices. For example, if your triaged bugs are not assigned to an area, the Best Practices Analyzer will report this problem and remind you that bugs that are triaged should be assigned to an area to help with identification of problematic areas of the project.

Learn more about the Best Practices Analyzer

Synchronize bugs with TFS 2010

TeamPulse provides two-way synchronization of bugs with Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010. Thanks to this integration agile software teams can benefit from TeamPulse’s improved collaboration and visualization capabilities without having to sacrifice their investments in TFS.

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Automated Testing Integration with Test Studio

Thanks to the tight integration between TeamPulse and Test Studio you can now ensure that all your requirements are properly defined, tested and that all bugs are captured and managed effectively. You can automatically link acceptance criteria for user stories in TeamPulse to functional tests in Test Studio. At the same time if you catch a bug in the software you are testing you can automatically log it in TeamPulse where it can be triaged, assigned, tracked and integrated into the development process. In addition, TeamPulse also syncs all the information relevant to the bug - the failed step log, the complete test log, a screenshot of the interface when the failure occurred, and a snapshot of the DOM tree in XML form.

Learn more about the integration between Test Studio and TeamPulse

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