Spot the bugs in a login form

Manual testing
beginner
5 min
2 questions

A login screen looks simple, yet it hides validation, security and usability defects that reach production every week. This challenge gives you a short requirement and the observed behaviour, and asks you to separate real defects from expected behaviour.

Skills practised: Requirement reading, Defect identification, Severity judgement

Worked example

Requirement: the password field masks input. Observed: characters appear in plain text after pasting. That is a defect even though typing works, because pasting is a normal way to enter a password.

Question 1

Requirement: email is required, password needs 8+ characters, five failed attempts lock the account for 15 minutes. Which observations are defects?

Submitting with an empty email shows "Email is required"A 7-character password is accepted at sign-upAfter five wrong passwords the sixth correct attempt still logs inThe error for a wrong password says "Invalid email or password"

Question 2

Which of these defects deserves the highest severity?

The Login button is 2px lower than the designThe account lock never triggersThe placeholder text has a typo

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Spot the bugs in a login form

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