When to set VERIFIED in BugZilla?

[James Richard Tyrer]

Henry W. Miller wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> 
>>Carlos Leonhard Woelz wrote:
>>
>>>On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 10:29:20 -0700, "James Richard Tyrer"
>>><tyrerj at acm.org> said:
>>>
>>
>>Well we need to start somewhere.  If we can properly maintain 10 current
>>bugs then we are that much ahead. :-)  If 100 people would check 1 old bug
>>each day, we would eventually get all of the obsolete ones taken care of.
> 
> 
> It isn't that easy.  First you need duplicate it in the unfixed version.
> Otherwise you can't be sure that you verified anything.  A bug that only
> shows up in one situation cannot be verified if you don't hit that exact
> situation.

Yes, but first this applies to confirming the bug.

An exact test case is needed.  This test case should be used to CONFIRM the 
bug.

Please see my new posting.

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JRT