Bugzilla is a computer program for the administration and pursuit of referring to errors (English: nose of report) in software and desires for additional functions (English: feature requests). Bugzilla is to be assigned to the category the nose tracker.

Technology

General information

Bugzilla is an open SOURCE program written in Perl, which stands under the Mozilla Public License and is free of charge available thus. It touches down on the cgi interface of a Web server; the use is made by a HTML surface. As data base according to standard MySQL serves. It is executable under Linux, Mac OS X and Windows.

Graphic user surface

Bugzilla is functioned a cgi program and from user view like a web page; therefore a Web Browser is necessary for the use. A English-language surface is provided, language packages can be in addition-installed simply.

History

Bugzilla was originally developed for pure software fault pursuit with Netscape in Tcl. The name is formed from nose (English expression for an error in a program) and Mozilla.

Bugzilla was originally developed by Netscape for the internal use, which also meant that the source codes were not yet open. After itself Netscape had decided to release the source code of the Browsers Netscape navigator also the Bugzilla software was freely available. Since then it is developed further by a group of developers around the Mozilla Foundation.

Related links

• Official web page of the Bugzilla project
• A German-language language package
• Bugzilla in the use of Mozilla.org

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