Defect/Bug tracking tool

We have various types of bug tracking tools available in software testing that helps us to track the bug, which is related to the software or the application.

Some of the most commonly used bug tracking tools are as follows:

Jira
Bugzilla
BugNet
Redmine
Mantis
Trac
Backlog

Jira

Jira is one of the most important bug tracking tools. Jira is an open-source tool that is used for bug tracking, project management, and issue tracking in manual testing. Jira includes different features, like reporting, recording, and workflow. In Jira, we can track all kinds of bugs and issues, which are related to the software and generated by the test engineer.

To get the complete details about Jira tool, refer to the below link:

https://www.javatpoint.com/jira-tutorial

Bugzilla

Bugzilla is another important bug tracking tool, which is most widely used by many organizations to track the bugs. It is an open-source tool, which is used to help the customer, and the client to maintain the track of the bugs. It is also used as a test management tool because, in this, we can easily link other test case management tools such as ALM, quality Centre, etc.

It supports various operating systems such as Windows, Linux, and Mac.

Features of the Bugzilla tool

Bugzilla has some features which help us to report the bug easily:

A bug can be list in multiple formats
Email notification controlled by user preferences.
It has advanced searching capabilities
This tool ensures excellent security.
Time tracking

BugNet

It is an open-source defect tracking and project issue management tool, which was written in ASP.NET and C# programming language and support the Microsoft SQL database. The objective of BugNet is to reduce the complicity of the code that makes the deployment easy.

The advanced version of BugNet is licensed for commercial use.

Features of BugNet tool

The feature of BugNet tool are as follows:

It will provide excellent security with simple navigation and administration.
BugNet supports various projects and databases.
With the help of this tool, we can get the email notification.
This has the capability to manage the Project and milestone.
This tool has an online support community

Redmine

It is an open-source tool which is used to track the issues and web-based project management tool. Redmine tool is written in Ruby programing language and also compatible with multiple databases like MySQL, Microsoft SQL, and SQLite.

While using the Redmine tool, users can also manage various projects and related subprojects.

Features of Redmine tool

Some of the common characteristics of Redmine tools are as follows:

Flexible role-based access control
Time tracking functionality
A flexible issue tracking system
Feeds and email notification
Multiple languages support (Albanian, Arabic, Dutch, English, Danish and so on)

MantisBT

MantisBT stands for Mantis Bug Tracker. It is a web-based bug tracking system, and it is also an open-source tool. MantisBT is used to follow the software defects. It is executed in the PHP programing language.

Features of MantisBT

Some of the standard features are as follows:

With the help of this tool, we have full-text search accessibility.
Audit trails of changes made to issues
It provides the revision control system integration
Revision control of text fields and notes
Notifications
Plug-ins
Graphing of relationships between issues.

Trac

Another defect/ bug tracking tool is Trac, which is also an open-source web-based tool. It is written in the Python programming language. Trac supports various operating systems such as Windows, Mac, UNIX, Linux, and so on. Trac is helpful in tracking the issues for software development projects.

We can access it through code, view changes, and view history. This tool supports multiple projects, and it includes a wide range of plugins that provide many optional features, which keep the main system simple and easy to use.

Backlog

The backlog is widely used to manage the IT projects and track the bugs. It is mainly built for the development team for reporting the bugs with the complete details of the issues, comments, updates and change of status. It is a project management software.