New — Potential defect that is raised and yet to be validated.
Assigned — Assigned against a development team to address it but not yet resolved.
Active — The Defect is being addressed by the developer and investigation is under progress. At this stage there are two possible outcomes; Deferred or Rejected.
Test — The Defect is fixed and ready for testing.
Verified — The Defect that is retested and the test has been verified by QA.
Closed — The final state of the defect that can be closed after the QA retesting or can be closed if the defect is duplicate or considered as NOT a defect.
Reopened — When the defect is NOT fixed, QA reopens/reactivates the defect.
Deferred — When a defect cannot be addressed in that particular cycle it is deferred to future release.
Rejected — A defect can be rejected for any of the 3 reasons; — duplicate defect, NOT a Defect, Non Reproducible.
