Analysis of Bug Tracking Tools
Sandeep Kumar Singh · 2013
Abstract- Nowadays, when project are so extensive, defects or bugs have been existed as a problem in the system and they are normally inevitable in software development. A bug could be in either a program’s source code or its design. Huge amount of bugs could be found in system development. It is relatively difficult to manage bugs in simple word documents or remember everything in one’s head. Because of that, it becomes very important to have appropriate bug tracking tool. Bug tracking tool makes communication between teams more effective and all the bugs and changes are recorded in web based system and hence the system is scalable. The purpose of this paper is to study different hug tracking tools, and purpose new set of selection criteria that gives more satisfying solution, as the industry needs criteria to select the best tool among the available set of tools that will help in fixing and tracking the progress of bug fixes. Index terms- Bug, Bug tracking, centralized data repository, notification method, web-based application. 1