Jira versus Bugzilla
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Federal government department: Awesomeness Canada
Medium-sized development project (15 team members)
Mix of expert and intermediate developers
Ad hoc methods of change management
A tool to facilitate issue tracking and change
management
Possible use of tool for future projects
Facilitate change management
Controlled / rigorous process for resolving
issues and tracking their progress
Aid in focusing maintenance and support
through the entire project lifecycle
Decide on the best tool between Jira and
Bugzilla
Must have
› Integration with CVS
› Integration with Eclipse
› Ability to track individual issue progress
› Ability to generate meaningful reports on project
progress for project introspection
› Bilingual (English / French)
Configurability for different projects (custom fields, different
notification schemes, workflow)
Completeness of issue tracking capabilities
Ease of installation
Maintainability (maintenance and administration)
Financial costs (value to tax payers)
Usability
Integration with other tools (multiple input / output methods,
plugins…)
Installed and used for mock
development projects
Scored tool out of ten points for each
criterion
Add scores for each tool
Compare totals
Free and Open Source Software (MPL)
Well established and widely used
Primarily a defect tracking system
https://landfill.bugzilla.org/bugzilla-4.0branch/
Integration with CVS
Integration with Eclipse
Track individual issues
Meaningful reports
Bilingual
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ž
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ž
Y (10)
Y (10)
Y (10)
Y (10)
Y (10)
Configurability for multiple projects
Completeness of issue tracking
Ease of installation
Maintainability
Financial costs
Usability
Integration (other tools)
6
6
7
7
10
7
8
Score
95
Commercial product ($1000 - $8000)
› Free for open source and non-profit
Wide usage
› Used by many companies and open source
projects (ASF uses Jira)
Issue tracking with project tracking
elements
http://jira.atlassian.com/
chrisd/chrisd
Integration with CVS
Integration with Eclipse
Track individual issues
Meaningful reports
Bilingual
ž
ž
ž
ž
Y (10)
Y (10)
Y (10)
Y (10)
Y (10)
Configurability for multiple projects
Completeness of issue tracking
Ease of installation
Maintainability
Financial costs
Usability
Integration (other tools)
9
9
8
7
8
10
9
Score
101
Jira - 101
› Completeness of issue tracking
› Ease of use
› Granular configurability for multiple projects
› Features are a super set of Bugzilla
Bugzilla – 95
› Free
› Great for tracking defects
Questions?