Main purpose of testing is to detect defects / bugs in the application before it is released into production; furthermore defects are only product the testing team produces that is seen by the project team. So document the defects in a way that is useful in the defect remediation process - at a bare minimum each defect should contain: Summary, Description, Priority, Severity, Impacted Area, How to reproduce the defect and Current Status of defect.
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