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Duplicate bugs

At a training session with an agenda to update developers the new changes in the bug tracking tool. A senior developer : with a cunning tone - Do you also teach how to add duplicate bugs? Tester : This training is to teach you on how to use the bug tracking tool, we could take the issue of duplicate bugs later. Senior developer : I feel there should be some validation in place in a bug tracking tool to block testers from logging duplicate bugs. Do we have one in this? Test Manager : If there are duplicate bugs in the bug tracker, please go ahead and mark it as duplicate and reject it. We shall verify the bug and if it is a duplicate we shall close it. Senior Developer : No, that is not the point – it is easy to increase the number of bugs by adding duplicate bugs so there should be a strict protocol in place. Test Manager: You are deviating from the training agenda, lets get thru with the training and we could discuss about it later with the project manger. After this con