Overview

In this article, let’s look at some of the popular defect tracking tools. A defect tracking tool helps software teams to create, resolve and track defects in the software projects. There are several defect tracking tools available in the market. Some are commercial and some are free and open source.

Mantis

Mantis is an issue tracking software tool. MantisBT can be installed as standalone tool. Mantis supports cloud-based SaaS product service.

MantisBT : https://mantisbt.org/

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

Jira Software

Jira is an Atlassian tool. 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:

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, enhancement and other change requests in their products. Simple defect-tracking capabilities are often built into integrated source code management environments such as GitHub or other web-based or locally-installed equivalents.

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