Bug tracking system

Tracking the errors found for correction is an exciting area of research in the software. Many open, free and commercial error tracking tools have been developed and are being developed. Organizations need criteria for selecting the best tool among the available toolkits that will help in fixing and tracking the progress of bug fixes. In this article, I use BugZilla, Jira, Trac, Mantis, BugTracker.Net, Gnats and Fossil for comparative study. I present exhaustive classification criteria for the scanned tools that will be used in future to evaluate and obtain the result.