Bug life cycle is the process in which bug move from one state to another state until it is fixed or closed. There are some state defined for bug during their life.
There are many state in bug life cycle these are mention below.
STATUS
The status field indicates the current condition of a bug.
NEW
This bug has recently been added to the assignee’s list of bugs and must be processed. Newly found bugs in the condition of new until it is assign to anyone and start take action on the bugs
UNCONFIRMED
This bug has recently been added to the project. There
Nobody has validated that this bug is true. Users who have the “confirmed” permission set may confirm this bug, changing its state to NEW. Or, it may be directly resolved and marked RESOLVED.
ASSIGNED
This bug is not yet resolved, but is assigned to the proper person. From here bugs can be given to another person and become NEW, or resolved and become RESOLVED.
REOPENED
This bug was once resolved, but the resolution was deemed incorrect. For example, a WORKSFORME bug is REOPENED when more information shows up and the bug is now reproducible. From here bugs are either marked ASSIGNED or RESOLVED.
RESOLVED
A resolution has been taken, and it is awaiting verification by QA. From here bugs are either re-opened and become REOPENED, are marked VERIFIED, or are closed for good and marked CLOSED.
VERIFIED
QA has looked at the bug and the resolution and agrees that the appropriate resolution has been taken. Bugs remain in this state until the product they were reported against actually ships, at which point they become CLOSED.
CLOSED
When any bus
The bug is considered dead, the resolution is correct. Any zombie bugs who choose to walk the earth again must do so by becoming REOPENED.
FIXED
A fix for this bug is checked into the tree and tested.
INVALID
This bug has recently been added to the project. There are so many conditions when bugs are goes to invalid condition. When bugs are not requirement or scope and problem described is not a bug.
WONTFIX
The problem described is a bug which will never be fixed. And this bus is not in currently working cycle. User can mark this bus as wontfix
DUPLICATE
When user put same bugs more than one time with same objective and description under one project. The second bugs are duplicate bugs.
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