Bug / Defect Tracking Software
Bug Tracking Software Overview
What is Bug Tracking Software?
Bug Tracking Software or defect tracking system is a component of Application Lifecycle Management and is designed to keep track of reported software bugs in software development projects. It comprises a database that records facts about known bugs such as time reported, severity, error behavior description, and how to reproduce.
Bugs can be entered by internal members of the software development team and, sometimes, by end users. System administrators can configure permissions, change bug status, or delete bugs.
In addition to bugs, bug-tracking systems are used to track performance enhancement suggestions, which are not strictly bugs. The backlog of bugs and enhancement requests are an invaluable resource for product managers as they plan the features of future releases (although, releases generally do not consist only of bug fixes and enhancement requests, but frequently contain more strategic features).
Other advantages of using a bug tracking system are ability to:
- Track effectiveness of testers (find rate per tester)
- Track effectiveness of development team in fixing bugs
- Ability to triage bugs by feature, to understand which features are the most problematic or the buggiest
- Calculate sprint estimations based on bug density
- Build list items to be regression tested
Bug / Defect Tracking Products
SpiraTest
SpiraTest allows customers to manage their software testing and quality assurance activities. It provides requirements management, test management and bug-tracking functionality with integrated reporting.
Loggly
Loggly is a cloud-based log management service provider. It does not require the use of proprietary software agents to collect log data. The service uses open source technologies, including ElasticSearch, Apache Lucene 4 and Apache Kafka.
IBM ClearQuest
IBM ClearQuest is an application development and production system, for change and defect tracking.
BugHerd
BugHerd is a bug tracking and project management platform built for web developers and designers.
Stackify Retrace
Retrace (formerly APM+) is a lightweight agent allowing developers to have an always-on Application Performance Management solution that enables the identification of application performance issues. Retrace gives developers continuous, real-time analysis of application behavior. The vendor says its...
Assembla Workspaces
Assembla, headquartered in Weston, Massachusetts, offers Workspaces, a defect and issue tracking solution.
Jixee
Jixee is a bug and issue tracker that integrates with tools like Github, Bitbucket, and Slack.
GNU GNATS
GNU GNATS is an open source bug and defect tracking system.
Adminitrack
Adminitrack, from the company of the same name headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, is a cloud-based issue and defect tracking solution.
QaBook
QaBook, from QaWorks in the UK, is an offering that contains both test management and defect tracking features.
zipBoard
zipBoard is a bug tracking and visual feedback tool which lets software teams take screenshots and assign tasks while browsing their web-based (web-apps, websites and E-learning) products. The vendor’s value proposition is that this solution makes collaboration among agile teams easier.
IBM Rational Software Analyzer
IBM Rational Software Analyzer is a software analysis tool for detecting and tracking bugs and defects in code.
Planio
Planio is an issue tracker and agile project management tool that is based on open source Redmine. With this solution, users can manage projects using agile methodologies such as scrum due to the included sprint planning and Kanban Boards. Users have unlimited git/svn hosting, so they can tightly...
Backlog
Backlog is a project management and bug tracking tool for teams that want higher productivity, greater visibility, and simple project tracking. Development teams can work together with Design, Marketing, IT, and more. Backlog is designed to get everyone on track by organizing work, teammates,...
ZenTao
Product management: including products, stories, plans, releases and roadmaps;Project management: including projects, tasks, teams, builds and burndown charts;Quality management: including bugs, test cases, test tasks and test results;Document management: including product document library, project...
Instabug
Instabug provides apps with bug reporting, crash reporting, and in-app user feedback capabilities. The vendor says that with just one line of code, beta testers and users can report bugs and provide mobile and support teams with detailed feedback by just shaking their phones. With each bug report,...