Bug Tracking Tools - Best Application For Software Development

Nov. 12, 2012 - PRLog -- A software bug is an error in a computer program, most commonly caused due to error in a programming source code or its design. This results in the computer not working in the proper manner. There are different types of software bugs – some have minor affects on the overall functionality of the computer, while some serious bugs can completely crash a computer system.

Software Tools in the market provide a resort to the problem of software bug. For example, a bug tracking system, also known as issue tracking system helps computer programmers in recording software bugs. Bug tracking system is a software application and it is nothing less than imperative for software development team and companies to be adept with effective Bug Tracking Tools that would take total care of quality of the computer program.

Rommana is one of the superior bug tracking tools in the market today. Its biggest USP is that not only supports all functionality supported by other bug tracking tools but also traces bug reports that helps to test cases, use cases and requirements. This traceability makes Rommana superior to other Bug Tracking Tools.

The capabilities of Rommana Bug Tracking include creation of standalone issue reports, optionally linking of an issue report to a requirement, a use case, a scenario. It also offers the ability to maintain dependency between issue reports and test cases. It provides up-to-date detailed status of issue reports and progress on handling them. The tool allows for tracking estimated and actual hours for working with issues; Rommana provides a seamless integration of Jira as a bug tracking tool with Rommana to provide traceability of Jira bug reports back to test cases, scenarios, use cases and requirements in the Rommana repository, and many others.

There are other effective Bug Tracking Tools available that helps software development team as well as others using a computer system to track their system, issues and errors their work, database and network:

Bugzilla:

Bugzilla is created by Terry Weissman. Stability and perfect maintenance by the open source community is its main feature. You can download Bugzilla for free from Mozilla,org website. It is one of the most commonly used Bug Tracking Tools.

Request Tracker:

Request Tracker was written in Perl by Jesse Vincent wrote in 1996.  It provides solution to issue management and can be used as a ticket tracking system.

Mantis:

Written in PHP, Mantis is an issue tracker that supports any platform running PHP like Windows, Linux, Mac, Solaris, AS400/i5, etc. Time Tracking, Customizable Issue Pages, Multiple Projects per Instance, Changelog Support, Source Code Integration, etc. are some of its features.

There are numerous bug tracking tools – both free and licensed. For all its features and capabilities, Rommana is by far a superior bug tracking tool compared to others available in the market today.

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