Latest Bugzilla Bug Tracking Interview Questions Part – 2

List Some Bug Tracking Tools?

Here are some bug tracking tools:

DoneDone
Request Tracker
BontQ
WebIssues
OnTime Bug Tracker
YouTrack
Unfuddle
InformUp
Gemini
BugAware
BUGtrack
TestTrack

What Are The Things Essential To Have For Bug Tracking Software?

For a bug tracking software it is essential to have:

Reporting facility –

complete with fields that will let you provide information about the bug, environment, module, severity, screenshots etc.

Assigning –

What good is a bug when all you can do is find it and keep it to yourself, right?

Progressing through the life cycle stages – Workflow

History/work log/comments

Reports – graphs or charts

Storage and retrieval – Every entity in a testing process needs to be uniquely identifiable, the same rule applies to bugs too. So, a bug tracking tool must provide a way to have an ID, which can be used to store, retrieve and organize bug information.

List Some Bug Tracking Software?

Here are some bug tracking software:

Bugzilla
JIRA
Mantis
Trac
Redmine
HP ALM/Quality Center
FogBugz
IBM Rational ClearQuest
Lighthouse
Zoho bug tracker
The Bug Genie
BugHost
DevTrack
BugNET
eTraxis

What Do Bug Tracking Systems Do?

Many bug tracking systems, such as those used by most open source software projects, allow end-users to enter bug reports directly. Other systems are used only internally in a company or organization doing software development. Typically bug tracking systems are integrated with other software project management applications.

What Is A Bugtrack?

A bug tracking system or defect tracking system is a software application that keeps track of reported software bugs in software development projects. It may be regarded as a type of issue tracking system.

What Is A Testtrack?

Bug tracking system, project management software TestTrack, developed by Seapine Software, provides a centralized suite of capabilities for managing requirements, defects, issues and testing throughout the software development cycle.

What Is A Gemini?

Gemini is a commercial application life cycle management system in the lines of HP QC. It has all the features necessary to carry out all your Project management and test management activities along with bug tracking.

What Is A Bugaware?

A simple tool that can be used to manage bugs or just manage to-do lists that have nothing to do with software, this tool can be a good option.

What Is Informup?

Ticket/issue/task – what ever you need to track, you have this tool up your alley along with the other tracking systems.

What Is Unfuddle?

A developer centric bug tracking system (but a bug tracking system nevertheless) with integration to Git and Subversion, it deals with issues as tickets and has a web based repository browser to inspect changes in files.

What Is Ontime Bug Tracker?

A defect/issue tracker specifically built for agile projects. The one feature I like is how it lets you drag and drop attachments.

What Is A Youtrack?

An Agile centric project and issue management tool. It has all the features that will let you handle agile projects- backlogs, scrum boards, custom workflows- the works. Bug tracking is also integrated, so if that is what you are looking for, you are covered.

What Is A Webissues?

Open source issue tracking systems with a desktop client as well as web based interface. The typical features of an issue tracking system are here too.

What Is A Bontq?

This issues tracking and project management tool is easy to use for managing tasks, bugs, documentation storage among other things. It has a desktop client that lets you capture screenshots and record videos.

What Is A Request Tracker?

Request Tracker, as the name implies tracks tickets. If your particular situation will guide you to treat each bug you receive as a ticket, then by all means you might want to try this tool out.

What Is Donedone?

A commercial issue tracker that has all the features common to this category of tools. It helps with creation of issues, assigning, tracking and setting the statuses, SVN and Git integration, file sharing etc.

When Should A Bug Report Be Written?

Bug report should be written when defect raised by testers. When developer accept that defect then it is called as bug. We need to give the details of the Defect in defect reporting template.

What Is A Bug Tracking System?

A bug tracking system or defect tracking system is a software application that keeps track of reported software bugs in software development projects. It may be regarded as a type of issue tracking system.

Why Do We Have To Write A Bug Report?

Test Lead creates the bug report and it is created for the client need. To tell the client how much time has been spend on the project, hot much Defects have been found, how much value add have been raised in the application.