Defect Life Cycle
Also written as Bug Life Cycle, Defect Lifecycle, Bug Lifecycle, Severity and Priority, Severity vs Priority
The states a bug moves through, from new and assigned to fixed, retested and closed (or reopened), plus how it's rated: severity is how badly it breaks things, priority is how soon it must be fixed.
Think of it like
A hospital triage chart: how serious the injury is, how urgently to treat it, and where the patient is in the process.
Junior or senior?
A standard interview question.
Senior sounds like
Can give a real example of a high-severity, low-priority bug (or the reverse) and explain how it was decided.
Ask them
“Give me an example of a bug that was high severity but low priority. Who decided, and why?”
Reading Defect Life Cycle on a resume
- Table-stakes
- Most people in this field list Defect Life Cycle, so its presence tells you little, and opening a screen with it can make the call sound junior. Ask what they built with it instead.
Sourcing for Defect Life Cycle
Every way it's written
("Defect Life Cycle" OR "Bug Life Cycle" OR "Defect Lifecycle" OR "Bug Lifecycle")Paste into LinkedIn Recruiter, Naukri or your ATS. Combine with a job title and location.
Wider net, with accepted substitutes
("Defect Life Cycle" OR "Bug Life Cycle" OR "Defect Lifecycle" OR "Bug Lifecycle" OR "Severity and Priority" OR "Severity vs Priority")Includes skills a hiring manager would usually accept instead. Use it when the exact search runs dry.