Commitment of delivery by each team allows the build to occur successfully, and improves the state of the software weekly. The bug triage process is a weekly meeting where the lead engineer and lead tester agree on the bugs that will be fixed in the upcoming week's build cycle. This is the chance for the lead tester and lead engineer to reach a consensus and address the most severe bugs. In most cases, addressing the most severe bugs enables testing to continue. This also increases test's ability to improve the depth of its reporting on the state of the software each week.
Triage also provides a time for discussion and risk analysis between the test and engineering teams.
Grading the software is a two-tiered approach. Grades consist of weekly build cycle grades and module grades. Grades are distributed to each team member and posted where all can see. The test team grades the weekly cycle build. Most bugs are found during the sanity testing of the weekly build.