What is Bugzilla?

Bugzilla is an open source bug-tracking system. It was developed by Mozilla Foundation in 1998. It was written in Perl programming language. Basically, it is used as a bug-reporting tool in the market. Companies that use Bugzilla are Frido, My Stack, Adroiti Technologies, CloudByte and many more.

Advantages of Bugzilla

Deadlines: To fix the bugs, deadlines can be established.
Types: It reports in a variety of formats and types.
Request System: You can use the ‘request system’ provided by Bugzilla to ask other users to evaluate codes, provide information and other things.
Flexible: Bugzilla is quite flexible, so you can modify it to fit your unique process and requirements.
Bug tracking tool: Bugzilla is extremely good at monitoring and handling bugs and issues.

Disadvantages of Bugzilla

Difficulties in attaching files: Large files cannot be attached in Bugzilla, which is a main concern.
Customization: It lacks the features of customization when compared with JIRA.
User-interface: The User-Interface is not so good and lacks mobile-based UI.
Agile Project Development: It does not support it which is the greatest disadvantage of Bugzilla.

JIRA vs Bugzilla

Bug tracking tools or software help the developers to track bugs and issues in the project. Both Jira and Bugzilla comes under the category of bug-tracking tool system and is used for the same purpose but with different functionalities. In this article, we will learn about the differences between the tools along with their features, advantages, and disadvantages. The parameters on which the difference is based are the following: