Abstract: “Traditionally bugs used to be reported and managed within excel sheets. But the problem was bugs were hard to manage, not accessible to everyone concerned in the project, difficult to monitor module wise defects, progress of the bugs resolution and on the basis of severity and priority wise defects analysis were not there. So the need of a common web based repository felt to manage and track the progress of all the reported bugs. Hence Bug Tracking tools or Bug Management Tools introduced as a w”

Keywords: Software testing; bug; open source; bug management tool.