Defect Tracking Tools

After a long time got a good chance of writing on my interesting experience.

Can you imagine a Testers job without a Bug Tracking System?

I can just say it would be this way!!

Earlier i use to work for a project where everything is systematic and we have a well maintained Defect tracking tool called DSolver (The customized version of the Bugzilla). Now i am into a project where we don't have any bug tracking tool. As am the only QA, and after getting used to the well maintained tool it has been really a tough time for me to report and then track the bugs.

Finally i started installing Bugzilla the famous open source defect tracking tool.

Seriously started following step by step procedure mentioned here 

Bugzilla installation needs the following to be installed:

• Apache
• MySQL
• Pearl

Good to see almost all the open source tools use Apache as the webserver and My SQL as the Database. So thought of installing all one after another. But luckily came to know from my collegues about another open source tool  XAMPP.

XAMPP's name is an acronym for:

• X (meaning cross-platform)
• Apache HTTP Server
• MySQL
• PHP
• Perl

kool luckily with the installation of XAMPP two steps (installation of Apache and MySQL) reduced to one. :)

Even after lot of struggle could not make Bugzilla up.In parallel we have started searching for another open source tool and as this is a short term project we are looking for easy web based tool.

Then came across another tool FlySpray

Now this again need 

• Apache
• MySQL
• PHP

As i already installed XAMPP i was able to reuse the same Apache and MYSQL and with minimal setup i was able to get a bug tracking tool in the team.

Now All izz well..

So for a short term projects we can use the open source tool called FlySpray and for the larger projects i would say try  Bugzilla.