Enhance Test Efficiency with JIRA & BUGZILLA & Test Automation Tools

By Michael Sasaki

Defect tracking is an essential part of the testing process. During the testing process, the entire life of a bug or major error factors need to be tracked to make sure they do not manifest in other ways that may slowdown or halt the working of software products. A common defect tracking system that is used by many testing organizations is JIRA. The JIRA test platform integrates well with most of the development tools and also provides detailed analysis and reports on source code, build, reviews etc.

JIRA is a unique test platform that provides flexible permission levels to different test resources. JIRA platform also specializes in test team management and test resource management (test cases, metrics, defects etc) by providing test tracking features like personal dashboards and reporting features like test case tracking and quantitative analysis. JIRA can also be integrated with other efficient test management tools which can help to reduce overall operating costs of the test teams.

Bugzilla is another favorite bug tracking systems widely used by many organizations around the world. Bugzilla is actually test software that is primarily used to track software bugs and source code changes. It also provides new features for quality assurance and communication within the team.

Bugzilla is supported by the Mozilla foundation, and is constantly upgraded to aid test organizations and test teams to reduce their downtime, enhance their productivity levels and above all, increase customer satisfaction ratings. When Bugzilla is integrated with robust test automation tools, it can provide for effective systems administration and deployment management.

Since software test management a highly critical project activity, organizations need to choose efficient and robust test automation tools that can improve the overall test team productivity.

The efficiency of any test team lies in defect recognition and tracking. For this, the teams require systems that can link or integrate with the various defect tracking systems used in other project modules.

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