Bugtrac – A New Improved Bug Tracking System

Software testing is a concept that is associated with the identification and detection of bugs. Most software bugs emerge from mix-ups and mistakes made by individuals in either a program's source code or in its technical design. Bugs are found in a variety of forms while using software applications and therefore it becomes difficult to detect and manage them properly for an individual/user of an application. In order to resolve this issue, bug tracking systems have been introduced to monitor and keep track of the reported bugs in an application. There exist many proprietary and open-source bug tracking systems today and some new systems are also under development to cater to the variety of bugs that keep originating due to the changing requirements of software. There is a need for a tool that will help in fixing and tracking the progress of bug fixes with the ever-changing types of software applications that keep evolving every day. In this paper, a comparative study has been performed between five defect tracking systems, a combination of both open source and proprietary. A new defect tracking system “Bugtrac” has been proposed taking into consideration all types of software applications and the defects that may originate from these applications. The proposed system is expected to become a more promising defect tracking system when compared with the already existing ones.