Bug Tracking System in .NET - IEEE Projects

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Bug Tracking System in .NET

A bug tracking system is a software application that is designed to help quality assurance and programmers keep track of reported software bugs in their work. It may be regarded as a sort of issue tracking system.

Many bug-tracking systems, such as those used by most open source software projects, allow users to enter bug reports directly. Other systems are used only internally in a company or organization doing softwate development. Typically bug tracking systems are integrated with other software project management applications. Having a bug tracking system is extremely valuable in software development, and they are used extensively by companies developing software products.

In a corporate environment, a bug-tracking system may be used to generate reports on the productivity of programmers at fixing bugs. However, this may sometimes yield inaccurate results because different bugs may have different levels of severity and complexity. The severity of a bug may not be directly related to the complexity of fixing the bug.

There may be different opinions among the managers, architects and the developers about the relative ease of fixing bugs.Local bug trackers are usually a computer program used by a team of application support professionals to keep track of issues communicated to software developers.

Using an LBT allows support professionals to track bugs in their "own language" and not the "language of the developers." In addition, LBT use allows a team of support professionals to trackspecific information about users who have called to complain that may not always be needed in the actual development queue. (Thus, there are two tracking systems when an LBT is in place.)