Overview

Let’s take a closer look at some of the commonly used defect tracking tools in the software industry. Numerous defect tracking options exist on the market, including commercial, free, and open-source choices.

A Defect Tracking Tool is a software application designed to help software teams manage and track defects, bugs, issues, etc. related to the development and maintenance of software products. These tools assist software teams in identifying, resolving, and monitoring defects in software projects.

Popular Defect Tracking Tools

Some popular defect-tracking tools are as follows:

Jira
MantisBT
Bugzilla
Zoho Bug Tracker

Jira Software

Jira is a popular and highly customizable issue-tracking and project-management tool developed by Atlassian. Atlassian tools help to plan, track, and release world-class software with software development tools used by agile teams. (startups to enterprises).

Official Website: https://www.atlassian.com/software

Choosing a Bug Tracking template for the software project:

Create a new Bug in Jira:

MantisBT

MantisBT(Mantis Bug Tracker) is an open-source web-based issue-tracking system designed to help software development teams manage and track software defects and project issues. It is a popular choice among software development and quality assurance teams for its simplicity and flexibility. MantisBT can be installed as a standalone tool. Mantis also supports cloud-based SaaS product services.

MantisBT : https://mantisbt.org/

SaaS cloud tool: https://www.mantishub.com

Bugzilla

Bugzilla is an open-source defect-tracking system or bug-tracking system. Defect-tracking systems allow teams of developers to keep track of outstanding bugs, problems, issues, enhancements, and other change requests in their products. Simple defect-tracking capabilities are often built into integrated source code management environments like GitHub or other web-based or locally installed equivalents.

Official Website: https://www.bugzilla.org