It is a Web-based general-purpose bug tracker and testing tool originally developed and used by the Mozilla project, and licensed under the Mozilla Public License. Released as open source software by Netscape Communications in 1998, it has been adopted by a variety of organizations for use as a bug tracking system and occasionally as a front-end to project management software. It is used for both free and open source software and proprietary projects and products.
Components of Bugzilla :-
Components of Bugzilla :-
- Summary - Describe the bug in 60 characters or fewer. Be pithy, be precise, and be concise. A developer should be able to read the summary and say, "Oh, that's what the bug is about."
- Platform and OS - These usually have no bearing on the actual bug, but it doesn't hurt to leave them specified (if you don't, they are auto detected)
- Component - Try to figure out what the bug is part of.
- Severity - How severe the bug is.
- Assign To - the field will automatically get filled, don't touch it
- CC - this field will add people to a mailing list which notifies users when a bug has been changed.
- URL - a specific URL for the bug, if any.
