Open Source Bug Tracking Systems

In the software development life cycle tracking bugs is one of the most important steps and without this step software cannot be complete. It is a big time-saver to add and manage bugs is in the Bug Tracker system. Few of the bug-tracker are not only tracking the bug but also the managing full software based project and can be used for many other tasks.
Bugzilla
Bugzilla is a Mozilla Foundation supported / developed bug tracking system that allows its users to log and track defects in their product effectively. It is a very mature and feature rich application with features like advanced search capabilities, bug lists in multiple formats, scheduled reports, automatic duplicate bug detection, capability to file / modify bugs by email, time tracking, request system, private attachment and comments, patch viewer. Bugzilla is powerful & commanding tool that will allow your team to get organized and communicate effectively. It is allow tracking the bugs & code changes efficiently.
Trac
Trac is web based, open source software. Trac is the superior version of wiki & use as the issue tracking system for software development projects. Trac system is developed by Edgewall Software. It supports multiple platforms like Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, Windows. Trac allows wiki markup in issue descriptions and commit messages, creating links and seamless references between bugs, tasks, changesets, files and wiki pages. A timeline shows all current and past project events in order, making the acquisition of an overview of the project and defect tracking software progress very easy. The roadmap shows the road ahead, listing the upcoming milestones. It is a stable and light weight system; however you may lose out some of the advanced features provided by other bug tracking systems.
Redmine
Redmine is a free and open source, web-based project management and bug tracking tool. It provides integrated project management features, supports multiple projects, issue tracking, support for multiple version control options, flexible role based access control, calendar and Gantt charts to aid visual representation of projects and their deadlines, feeds and email notifications, time tracking, project wiki, project forums etc. Feature rich product recommended where stability isn’t a critical requirement.
Mantis BT
Mantis Bug Tracker is a open source web-based Bug Tracking System. It is written in PHP and works with multiple databases like MS SQL, MySQL, and PostgreSQL.
Mantis has multiple items & dived into multi-level hierarchy as follows:
Projects -> Sub Projects -> Categories -> Bugs
Based on user access & permission rights user can contribute to each item.Mantis is powerful tool integrated with few applications like time tracking, chat, wiki, RSS feeds.
Fossil
It is a distributed bug tracking, version control, wiki and blog mechanism all in a single integrated package. It has a built-in and easy-to-use web interface, supports auto sync mode, is cgi enabled, provides simple networking, is a robust and reliable software and is easy to use and deploy with one single binary that works on every platform you can imagine.
Bug-A-Boo
It is a web based bug reporting system for Linux. It is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
It runs on any web host server providing CGI functionality. Bug-A-Boo does not need any database server but brings along its own local tables it accesses with tdbengine.
It features multi language support, 3 different user levels, layouts/themes, email notifications, individual display profiles for every user and it has almost “no limits in numbers”.At the moment there are available either an English or a German translation.

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