Bugzilla

Bugzilla is a robust system that allows you to integrate a low-level bug-tracking system, optimization engine, and issue management application into your environment.

The tool is compatible with both Unix-like systems and with Windows OS. Built and primarily used by Mozilla, the free-of-cost package can be accessed extremely easily from Firefox (but not only), which Bugzilla uses as an interface. This is a web-based utility that needs to be first installed and configured on your server, and it requires Perl.

Also, the application is compatible with many database types, which is needed for handling the inventory of bugs and fixes you want to detect, list, and fix.

As such, primarily, the developer recommends and supports full integration and implementation with MySQL and PostgreSQL. Nonetheless, Bugzilla also supports Oracle databases, but some known issues might come up (read more about them here).

For testing purposes, the recommended database is SQLite. And, by the developer's indications, the mod_perl module is designed and recommended for optimized and improved performance and very high concurrent access (needed when the Bugzilla utility is being used by big organizations).

Bugzilla offers a ton of features of options that include advanced bug searches with specific rules and query inputs. You can generate reports in HTML, XML, CSV, or Atom, as well as output line, bar, and pie charts and graphs for reporting.

Besides advanced tracking, template creation and usage, and database health check and data inconsistency scanning, the tool also enables automating recurrent processes and implementing advanced bug and issue checking methods.