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What's the distinction between a defect and a task in Rational Team Concert?

Both theses work items seem (at least to me) to be interchangable, with the possible exception that work items may be usable for non-defect changes (such as new functionality).

Is that all there is to it, or is there some more fundamental difference between the two?

Solution

  • A Task is an an over-arching work item type meant to encapsulate a piece of work that does not fall under the umbrellas of the other work items (Defect, Story, Bug Report, and Feature Request, by default). Typically, new functionality would fall under the Feature Request umbrella.

    Work items that might be good candidates for Tasks might include:

    • researching the capabilities of a library you are considering adopting,
    • building a new test client, or
    • filling up the soda machine.