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What difference do you find while posting bugs through bugzilla and excel sheet?

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Last Update: December 10, 2008 Asked by: kishoresanapala

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October 23, 2007 07:06:34

swethareddyv

RE: What difference do you find while posting bugs thr...

Hi
Posting bugs through excel sheet can be helpful to check for reference in the future about bugs found for a particular build.
As per my knowledge hardly any company would use excel sheet for tracking the bug.
In a bug life cycle bug's state would be changed various times at different stages.. all these can be tracked effectively and efficient only by using a Bug tracking tool.(Eg: Bugzilla)
Regards
Swetha

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December 09, 2008 06:17:33

srinivasulub1981

Member Since: December 2005 Contribution: 381

RE: What difference do you find while posting bugs through bugzilla and excel sheet?

I didn't used much bugzilla but it's not good in terms of look and feel so we have rejected this tool for our project we still used Excel sheet for defect tracking it's very flexible to see the issues status wise easy to update easy to log and easy to generate the reports.

But only thing is version problem if at all any person changed the status of one issue it could be difficult to found when it was change if we dont aware of the status.

Srinivas

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December 10, 2008 02:13:46

imnothegeek_lav

Member Since: November 2008 Contribution: 17

RE: What difference do you find while posting bugs through bugzilla and excel sheet?

Difference is

Bugzilla is MUCH MUCH more easier tool to keep track of the bug life.
like consider if a bug in bugzilla as well as in an excel sheet.
-in bugzilla its a NEW bug. & excel has only a entry.
In bugzilla u can see the status & comments by the developer & tester like a conversation & can understand the course of the bug from NEW to VERIFIED to CLOSED.
But the same if wanted in excel sheet it is a very tedious process to keep all updates of the bug or all bugs in one sheet.(or keep updating a new sheet every day to keep track)

ask in reply if more explanation is needed on this !! :)

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