A defect-tracking system (also known as bug tracking system, bug tracker, or issue tracker) is a software system that keeps track of reported software defects in software projects. The main benefits of this kind of systems is to provide a centralized overview of development management, bug reporting, and even feature request. It is also common to maintain a list of pending items, often called backlog.
There are a bunch of defect-tracking systems available, both proprietary and open source. In this section, we make a brief of several of the most well-known:
- JIRA (https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira): It is a proprietary defect-tracking system created by Atlasian. In addition to bug and issue tracking, it provides managements capabilities such as SCRUM and Kanban boards, a language to query issues (JIRA Query Language), integration with external systems...