9 Free And Open Source Bug Tracking Softwares

16 Mar

9 Free And Open Source Bug Tracking Softwares

A web application or a software development process always has bugs which is very normal in a hundreds of lines of code. The important part is tracking & fixing them.

Whether you are a one-person-army or have teammates, it is a big time-saver to use a bug tracking software.

Besides having the bugs listed in a comprehensive way, most bug/issue tracking applications let end-users to submit bug-feature requests that will end up in a better product.

Here are 9 free & open source bug tracking softwares, both desktop & web-based, for a better development process:

WebIssues

WebIssues is an open source issue tracking & team collaboration application that has 2 parts:

The server: a PHP-MySQL based server where the data is stored, notifications are sent
The client: a desktop application for users to connect to the server (Windows & Linux supported)

A permission-based user system enables the ability of "multiple users working on different projects".

Issue types are flexible & customizable. Issues can be easily filtered & reports can be created for a snapshot.

eTraxis

A PHP bug tracking software that works with MySQL, PostgreSQL, MSSQL and Oracle.

Unlimited projects can be created with any number of users working on them. Users working on the project can easily see the bugs assigned to them or see the general status of the project.

eTraxis can notify users with e-mails & has a reminder system. The software has multilanguage support.

Bugzilla

This Mozilla Foundation supported/developed bug tracking system allows individual or groups of developers to keep track of outstanding bugs in their product effectively.

Considering Bugzilla is used by Mozilla, Open Office, RedHat, NASA, Facebook & hundreds of other popular companies, it is a very mature & feature rich application.

It can perfectly track bugs & code changes with time tracking and notifications. Teammates can communicate with each other & users of the product can become a part of the bug tracking system by submitting bugs

Trac

Trac is a improved wiki and issue tracking system for software development projects.

It has an interface to Subversion (or other version control systems), an integrated Wiki and convenient reporting facilities.

A timeline displays all current and past project events in order, for a better overview of the project. There is also a roadmap which shows the list of the upcoming milestones.

Mantis Bug Tracker

A web-based free bug tracking system, written in PHP and works with MySQL, MS SQL, and PostgreSQL.

Mantis has a multi-level hieararchy: projects>sub-projects>categories>bugs where users can contribute to each item if they have the access rights.

The application has powerful features like an integrated wiki, chat, RSS feeds, time tracking & much more.

BugNET

BugNet is an open source ASP.NET bug tracking tool.

Email notifications, reporting and per project configuration of fields and values allows efficient management of bugs, feature requests, and other issues for projects of any scale.

The Bug Genie

An open source issue tracking system for improving the development process by managing bug reports, feature requests and user feedback.

The Bug Genie is built with PHP, has multilanguage support & provides an easy to use interface.

It can be integrated with Subversion, displays roadmaps automatically & much more.

Issue Tracker By ASP.NET

A simple yet working issue tracker by ASP.NET.

The application lets you to create projects, projects members/permissions & issues to be assigned to members.

Issues can be tracked, related issues can be displayed & more. Issue Tracker supports MS Access & MSSQL for storing the data.

Eventum

Eventum is a issue tracking system built by the MySQL team.

It helps organizing tasks & bugs within a development project. It has various features from notifications to reminders & reports to RSS support.

Tags: Asp.Net Desktop MSSQL Mysql Php
Filed under: Extras, Other License, Tools
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39 Responses for "9 Free And Open Source Bug Tracking Softwares"

Navdeep March 16th, 2009 at 1:08 pm
Redmine is another amazing tool.

Marcin March 16th, 2009 at 1:20 pm
Why missing the RT: Request Tracker? http://bestpractical.com/rt/

Chris Jones March 16th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
In the interest of documentation, you should also check out Redmine (http://www.redmine.org/).

Philip Hallstrom March 16th, 2009 at 2:02 pm
I’d add Redmine to the list. It adds a slew of other nice PM features as well.

Derek March 16th, 2009 at 2:07 pm
No ColdFusion love so I will throw this one in

Lighthouse Pro from Ray Camden
http://lighthousepro.riaforge.org/

Yaron March 16th, 2009 at 3:03 pm
Thanks!

I’ve actually been using The Bug Genie for a while, on a few projects, and am overall quite happy with it. But after a long time of inactivity I stopped looking for updates, so until seeing this post now I didn’t notice they released a new version.

Dave Quested March 16th, 2009 at 3:57 pm
We just started using RedMine (www.redmine.org), x10 better than Trac.

allan March 16th, 2009 at 8:24 pm
wow great thanks for this, this would surely help people. By the way I am using trac on developing software.

sas March 16th, 2009 at 10:19 pm
yeap, redmine is definetelly missing in this list….

Bala March 16th, 2009 at 11:29 pm
Nice post. I would like know list of Free and Open source Test Case Management Systems.

draganshadow March 17th, 2009 at 2:59 am
Yes Redmine is missing, I also think that it’s better than trac. It’s easier to manage eand do multiple projects.

Rasheed March 17th, 2009 at 3:08 am
REDMINE, better than trac!! And offers lot a features! Definitly the best..

Thomas March 17th, 2009 at 3:16 am
Arg Bugzilla is running on Perl ;-(

Farid Hadi March 17th, 2009 at 3:24 am
Thanks for collecting and sharing.

taylan March 17th, 2009 at 11:54 am
I need such a list really. Now, the choice will be much easier to do. Thank you.

anon March 18th, 2009 at 8:33 pm
you forgot to mention Fossil, by the creator of Sqlite: http://fossil-scm.org/.

From the author:

“Fossil is a distributed software version control system that includes an integrated distributed wiki and an integrated distributed bug-tracking system all in a single, easy-to-use, stand-alone executable.”

Lynx May 15th, 2009 at 2:47 pm
use mantis, yeah!

Jorg May 18th, 2009 at 10:25 am
If anyone’s interested, here’s a list of web based bug/defect tracking softwares: http://www.web-based-software.com/tracking/

Trinh Bui May 18th, 2009 at 10:42 pm
But redmine don’t have notification mail function

Marcus Friedman | Ellipsys ... June 15th, 2009 at 9:27 pm
Redmine is one of the most powerful, flexible and intuitive tools for tracking issues in the context of a software development project.

It has an excellent user interface, and a lot of features that are a must for development teams.

I think it can’t be missing on a “free and open source bug tracking software” list.

Kind regards,
Marcus

Nadav June 24th, 2009 at 7:08 am
Amazing post! Love it. Very informative. Thanks!

srilakshmi July 2nd, 2009 at 4:20 am
Pls. let me know the best free source bug tracking tool for tracking requirements, bugs and enhancement.
Should have provision to generate reports.

daniel lopes August 6th, 2009 at 4:28 pm
Wow, forgot lighthouse? The best one: http://lighthouseapp.com/

Umut M. August 7th, 2009 at 12:44 am
@daniel,

Lighthouse looks nice but not open source.

Wiredworx August 13th, 2009 at 10:12 am
Great resource! Just what I was looking for =D

Tester August 23rd, 2009 at 4:36 pm
We’ve been using BugHost since 2002… great tool with free option!

Thanks for the informative list!

guy September 20th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
very good bug tracker is informup (free for 4 users). we are only 2 in our company so it is great for us.
thank:-) http://www.informup.com

Ben September 23rd, 2009 at 10:09 pm
BugAware has a free SAAS 5 user product, also free for Non Profit / Educational Orgs : http://www.bugaware.com

EHz October 24th, 2009 at 8:04 pm
According to:
http://www.redmine.org/wiki/redmine/RedmineInstall
Redmine should run on most Unix, Linux, Mac and Windows systems as long as ruby is available on this platform.

So it requires Ruby (or Ruby on Rails?).

Tom Domyno November 17th, 2009 at 11:29 am
The Codendi platform also offers a powerful and very customizable open-source and web-based tracker system. Codendi trackers enables to create as many tracker you want : task tracker, requirement tracker, issue tracker, test tracker etc. You can download for free Codendi Labs http://www.codendi.com/features.php

kevin December 29th, 2009 at 2:36 pm
Great List – thanks
Has anyone used eTraxis – http://www.etraxis.org/ ?
Wondering if it is any good. Thanks

kevin December 29th, 2009 at 2:38 pm
sorry – i meant – extraview – http://www.extraview.com/site/

faisal December 29th, 2009 at 4:46 pm
It was an excellent place to choose the right tool for my needs. Thanks all.

Harish January 25th, 2010 at 6:05 am
Surely it is the right place for me to choose one.

Thanks a lot for your valuable contribution.

Gabi February 7th, 2010 at 8:19 am
http://bugspy.net is a search engine for open source bugs. Very useful

anna lorraine February 10th, 2010 at 8:39 pm
thanks for posting this… thanks alot

Varun Sikka February 19th, 2010 at 3:37 pm
Thanks a lot.. Its a very valuable information.

k²bytes February 26th, 2010 at 3:10 am
Very interesting list! Thanks for putting the features together!

vbulletin 4 styles March 4th, 2010 at 7:26 am
Appreciate this i develop vBulletin 4 styles and skins, and vbulletin 4 still has many stylevars bugs and this will help my users report them so i can write custom workarounds for any problems found.

Thanks again