Bugzilla, or nah?
April 19, 2017

Bugzilla, or nah?

Isaiah Hayes | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Bugzilla

Bugzilla was used as a bug management system for our clients (ranging between 50-250 clients). This was used to track the progress of all of our projects; when issues were ticketed, worked on by the appropriate team member, resolved, retested and closed. It was also used as a primary system for company communication as it related to our project issues.

We were able to use it while team members were out of state, as well as out of the country.

It helped us solve organization problems with our bugs, and kept us aware of any outstanding issues by taking advantage of the "status" section of Bugzilla.
  • Project synchronization. Used as the primary resource for bug tracking, bugzilla can serve as a powerful project synchronization tool. Every aspect of the tickets can be tracked; status changes, comments, added watchers, who's currently working on the issue, and if it's related to another issue.
  • Unlimited Space. I currently work with a company who services hundreds of clients - and bugzilla helped us manage each one.
  • For companies with a need to service many different projects, or iterations of the same project, bugzilla handles this task exceptionally well.
  • Workflow assignments. Workflow is customizable by the simply selection of a checkbox. If ever the workflow needs to be altered, doing so is as simple as a .2 second "click".
  • Cloud Based. I'd like to see bugzilla be cloud based. The company I currently work with made a final decision to change db's for this specific reason. Due to the frequency of travel in this company, they need access to bugzilla from differing national / international locations.
  • Larger File Attachments. I believe the limit of a bugzilla content upload is 4 megabytes. For many of our video'd issues, this file size is simply impractical without the additional effort exertion on video compressor applications.
  • Truly serves its purpose for local bug tracking.
  • Ability to trace conversations with time stamps relinquishes the common burden of tracking release fixes.
Bugzilla had many of the same common features necessary for bug tracking. However, the ease of use that JIRA provides while abroad is essential for many companies, and is the ultimate decision maker for those establishments. Additionally, while bugzilla includes a time setting tool for each tracked issue, JIRA, and many other programs offer a Gantt section to outline entire projects, without the limiting constraint to a single issue.
If a company has a need to test a product with many variations (web, mobile, kiosk, etc.) bugzilla makes the "product" alternation easy to access.

However, accessing said projects without access to the company's internal server is incommodious.