task with two statuses

[Hubert C]

In my release cycle, testing time is long enough, that developer is starting to fix bugs that were found during QA testing. It's possible to have a task in two status, like "open" for developer and "In testing" for QA tester in parallel? What is best approach to have a best time tracking this?

[Nic Brough [Adaptavist] · Accepted solution]

No, it's not.  An issue has a single status, it's nonsense to suggest otherwise (unless it's an issue in a quantum state, but that's not going to be understood by most humans).

One easy approach is to let the issue go into "in testing" and then raise sub-tasks for "I found this problem" - especially as a test cycle may raise more than one problem with it.  Not sure if this is the best for you, but it could be a good answer based on what you've said here.

[Dennis Poort]

Agreed, testing usually results in findings, which are ideally best represented in individual issues, which will have their own status assigned to the developer.