Bug tracking tools helps you manage and track your software testing efforts and organize your QA department. Tools make it easy to create test cases, manage test runs and coordinate your entire testing process. Easily track and follow the status of individual tests, milestones and projects with dashboards and activity reports. While there is no harm in using an excel sheet to record/track and emails to report/alert/communicate – as the magnitude of the projects, the number of test cycles, the count of the people involved grows – it becomes absolutely important that we need a much stronger mechanism that will make the management of these issues simpler and consistent so we can concentrate harder on actually finding more issues in the AUT than managing the ones already found. Here we can discuss about some tools used for bug tracking.
It 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 etc. It is a widely adapted product used by various big
open source projects like Linux Kernel dev team, Apache dev team, GNOME dev
team and popular companies like Open Office, NASA, Facebook etc. and is one of
the most recommended bug tracking systems.
It is also a
web based bug tracking system that refers to defects as ‘cases’. It allows you
to create, list, assign and work on cases created. Also the project information
can be created in terms of milestones so that the progress of the cases can be
evaluated against the milestones.
Redmine is
an open source issue tracking system that integrates with SCM (source code
management systems) too. Even though it is not a ‘bug tracking’ tool it
involves working with issues, where issues can be features, tasks, bugs/defects.
Management tool is also commonly used for bug-tracking. It
provides the complete set of recording, reporting, workflow and other
convenience related features. It is a tool that integrates directly with the
code development environments thus making it a perfect fit for developers as
well.
Stryka
is an enterprise test management tool, built from the ground up using the
latest web and mobile technologies. Supports the end-to-end test lifecycle from
linking requirements to test cases to defects.
This tool at the top position when we compared to the other
tracking tools in terms of simplicity and ease of use. Mantis not only comes as
a web application, but also has its own mobile version. It is implemented in
PHP and is free for use.
Lean Testing is a free bug tracking and test case management
software designed by testers. It has a browser extension to report bugs on
websites quickly and easily as well as in-app reporting tools to allow users to
report bugs directly from within mobile apps.
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, and
provides simple networking.
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