Research Bug Activity

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Title	Research Bug Activity
Overview	Learners will choose a fixed defect or feature, research its history, and summarize in an online format.
Prerequisites	Basic understanding of what a bug/enhancement is.
Learning Objectives	After successfully completing this activity, the learner should be able to: Understand the source of a bug. Trace the history of a bug. Articulate how and why a bug was resolved.
Process Skills Practiced

Go to the Gnome bugzilla instance: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/
Find the MouseTrap closed bugs:
1. From the main Gnome Bugzilla page, click on the Search icon
2. Under Status select Closed
3. Under Product select mousetrap (hint: repeatedly press 'm' until you tab down to mousetrap)
4. In the Words slot enter 'fix'
You should now see a list of closed bugs. Select a defect or feature from this list
Read the bug report and history carefully to determine:
1. When was the bug reported?
2. Who reported the bug?
3. What actions were taken on the bug and by whom?
4. When was the bug fixed?
5. What was the fix?
6. Who made the fix.
Report your findings in a blog post. Turn in a link to your blog post.

Provide a link to your blog post.

ACM BoK Area & Unit(s)
ACM BoK Topic(s)	Testing
Difficulty	Easy
Estimated Time to Complete	60 minutes
Environment / Materials	Access to Internet/Web and web browser.
Author(s)	Heidi Ellis
Source
License	This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License

MouseTrap or other GNOME project.