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Bugzilla

Prepared By: Charul Bhan


Introduction

Web-based general purpose bugtracker tool

Released as open source software by Netscape Communications in 1998

Originally written in Tcl, later ported to Perl before its release as part of Netscape's early open source code

Bugzilla Lifecycle


Main Page


Create user

For creation of new account, first user has to submit his email address to administrator.

Administrator provides him the link to create a password with email address as a user name.


User Permissions


User Permissions Contd…


Add User

From the main page, select the users link provided at the bottom of the page.


Add User Contd…


Email Preferences



Email Preferences

User can use email notification to keep himself informed about the various changes taking place in the bug.

These preferences are user configurable so that any user can customized it to his own needs.


Email Preferences Contd…


Bugzilla Intricacies



Definitions

Product

A Product is a broad category of types of bugs, normally representing a single piece of software or entity.

They can be considered as the project under one domain. Components

A Component is a subsection of a Product. It should be a narrow category, tailored to an organization. All Products must contain at least one Component .

These components can be correlated with the various sub divisions within the project.

Classification

Broadly speaking , they are collection of one or more products.

These can be loosely termed as a domain.


Classification


Classification Contd…


Product flow 1


Product Flow 1 Contd…


Product Flow 2


Product Flow 2 Contd…


Component Flow 1


Component Flow 1 Contd...


Component Flow 2


Component Flow 2 Contd…


Bug Searching



Search Bug


Search Bug Contd…


Bug Life Cycle



Example

Classification : Gaming

The Domain here considered is the ever-growing Gaming industry

Products: Mobile Gaming, PC Gaming

Above mentioned are two products of the gaming industry. Here we will look at the bug pertaining to the Mobile gaming.

Components: Functional , language, UI (user interface)

The bug will correspond to the UI component of Mobile Gaming


New Bug

Main Page


New Bug Contd…

QA Contact: User responsible for quality assurance of this bug

Deadline: This field shows the deadline for this bug.

Estimated Hours: This field shows the original estimated time.


New Bug Contd…

Depends on: This field gives dependency of this bug on the bug specified.

Blocks: This field specifies the bug which is prevented from being fixed until this bug is fixed

Selecting the Commit button results into submission of bug and simultaneously an mail is send to the QA contacts of the bug.


Assigned state


Assigned state Contd…


Bug fixing


Bug verification


Summary Reports



Summary Reports

Provide information pertaining to the bugs present in the software in documented form.

The information can either be observed in tabular form or pictorial form.

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