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Generating a Defect from an Issue

This article explains how to generate a defect from an issue in Agility.

Overview

Follow these steps to generate a defect from an existing issue.

  • Generating a defect from an issue establishes a new relationship between the items.
  • You can generate multiple defects for each issue.

Steps

  1. Click the hamburger menu Hamburger icon and choose one of the following:

    • Product > Input > Issues
    • Team > Sprint Planning > Issues
    • Team > Sprint Tracking > Issues
  2. From the Edit drop-down menu, choose Generate Defect. The Defect pop-up window opens, populated with all defined Issue details.

  3. Make the necessary changes and click Save.

The new defect is added to the bottom of the Backlog grid with a unique ID beginning with "D".

Tracking Impediments with Issues

Difference between Resolving and Closing an issue