Introduction to Bugzilla
Bugzilla is a web base system using for bug- or issue-tracking in software developing under quality assurance. In sense of a Bug tracking system, it is a tool which allows individual or groups of developers effectively to keep track of unsettled problems with their product. Bugzilla was originally written by Terry Weissman in 1998 using a programming language called TCL, to replace a rudimentary bug tracking database used internally by Netscape Communications. Terry later ported Bugzilla to Perl from TCL, and in Perl it remains to this day. Bugzilla quickly became a favorite of the open-source crowd (with its genesis in the open-source browser project, Mozilla). It is now the de-facto standard defect-tracking system against which all others are measured.
Bugzilla boasts many advanced features. These include:
· Powerful searching
· User-configurable email notifications of bug changes
· Full change history
· Inter-bug dependency tracking and graphing
· Excellent attachment management
· Integrated, product-based, granular security schema
· Fully security-audited, and runs under Perl's taint mode
· A robust, stable RDBMS back-end
· Web, XML, email and console interfaces
· Completely customisable and/or localisable web user interface
· Extensive configurability
· Smooth upgrade pathway between versions
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