while viewing a defect, you can easily create a copy of the defect using the clone defect function. to clone a defect, you should have the create and edit defects permission.

following are the steps to clone a defect.

step 1 − open an existing defect. go to the defect section and enter a query type defect id. click run query. the result will get displayed at the bottom as shown in the following screenshot.

step 2 − click the defects id to open the details of the defect.

step 3 − click the clone button. a new defect form displays with all the details is copied as shown in the following screenshot.

step 4 − after clicking the clone button, the button gets disabled and the summary has a name as cloned defect.

step 5 − edit details in cloned defect. then, click the save button to submit the clone defect.

a new defect id generates with reference to the original defect id as shown in the following screenshot.

consider the following points while cloning a defect −

• clone defect will always be in new status.
• only the details of the defect are copied from the original defect.
• linked test runs, attachments, comment, and history will not be copied.