Automatic return to backlog

[robhaynes812]

We have a SCRUM board were we do 2 week sprints.  Developers work issues on the sprint.  When they have a fix, we want the ticket to go back into the backlog so that the QA department can pick it up in a later sprint.

Is there a way to make it so that the develop can drag the ticket to the done column, and then have the ticket show up in the backlog for a QA person?

Am I trying to do the wrong thing?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Yes, that's wrong.  When an issue is done, it is done.  That means no more work needs doing on it, not "needs testing".  You should only consider an issue done when the testers have finished with it as well.  Remember that in Scrum, testing is part of the team's responsibilities, not that of a separate team.  It doesn't go from dev to qa, the team tests it as part of getting it done.

That only applies per board though.

If you have two teams (dev and qa), you might want to use two boards (a good rule of thumb is that any board is actively used by a single team).  The developer board contains status from "to do" through to "ready to test" (which is the developer's "done") and the QA board starts with their to-do being "ready to test", following through the rest of the workflow to the tester's "done" (ready to deploy is a common one)