Thursday 10 December 2015

COMPARISON BETWEEN VARIOUS ISSUE TRACKING TOOLS.

What is an issue tracking system???

An issue tracking system is a software application that allows an organisation, company or institute to record and track the progress of every problem or issue by using various issue tracking tools until its status becomes fixed.

As we are provided with a number of online issue tracking tools so anyone can easily become confusing that what actually he or she should use in order to make his or her project efficient and worthy. Therefore, in order to deal with such a dilemma, we are here with a great comparison between some very exciting issue tracking tools.



We are going to compare a number of issue tracking tools  including  Bugzilla, google code hosting, HP Quality centre, Jira, mantis BT and many more. In below table we will compare different issue tracking tools on the basis its creator, implementation language, launch date, licence and features.


Now let us compare:



                                                   
        
Sr.no.

SALIENT FEATURES

LANGUAGE

LAUCH
DATE

LICENCE

CREATOR
1
Apache
bloodhound

Integrated
wiki

python

2012

apache

Apache
team












2
bugzilla

Integrated
Reports and charts

Perl

1998

MPL

Mozilla
team












3
jira

Excel,
Word and
Gantt chart

java

2002

Free licence for open source project

atlassian












4
scopidea

Ghantt chart, agile
And
Time tracking

PHP

2014

Cloud Hosted

Precise testing solution pvt ltd.












5
Planbox

RSS, charts, reporting

Java, PHP

2009

Free version

planbox















6
Support
works

Integrated,
Reporting,
dashboard

C++, java

1994

proprietary

Hornbill
systems












7
Mantis BT

Integrated
wiki

PHP

2000

Open source

GPL












8
TRAC

Integrated wiki

Python

2006

New BSD

Edgewell
software












9
WRIKE

Gantt charts, alerts, excel

java

2006

Proprietary
hosted

Wrike inc.











              
10
HP Quality centre

Reliable and
friendly

JAVA &.NET

1995

Proprietary

HP











            
11
Zoho bug
tracker

Organize
& manage
Files define custom workflows

java

2011

proprietary

Zoho corp.












12
Tracker suite.NET

Dashboard,
Graphical
report

C#

2006

proprietary

Automation
centre