What is the meaning of incident in software testing?

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user1232529 picture user1232529 · Apr 12, 2012 · Viewed 9.1k times · Source

What is the meaning of an "incident" in software testing?

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user1307790 picture user1307790 · Apr 12, 2012

At the time of executing/run a test, you sometimes found that the actual results vary from expected results.

When the actual result is differ from the expected result it is called incidents but incidents differs from bugs because it arise because of miss- configuration , corrupted data

incident is Any event occurring during testing that requires inspection or review.

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