Bug triage session guide

Five steps you should do for an effective bug triage session

What is a bug triage session?

A bug triage session is a meeting where you aim to analyze, prioritize or close defects with your team.

Having these sessions is crucial to raising awareness of your backlog. This way, everyone on the team can tackle issues effectively.

Five steps to run an effective bug triage session

1. Preparation phase—Being prepared is crucial, and a way to be prepared is to take a firsthand look at the issues you will be addressing throughout the session. A way to find out issues on your project is to go into Jira and query for them. In your query, gather the issues that belong to your project which are not yet solved nor closed. If anything isn’t comprehensible when going over these issues, comment with as many questions as needed to ensure that the issue is crystal clear for everyone involved.

2. Sending invites (who for?)—Time to invite the team for a 50-minute session. Make the project manager and your team lead mandatory for every session. Other than that, it will depend. Since you prepared yourself, you should know who else should attend.

I’d still suggest that you invite…