Bugzilla is the leading open-source/free software bug tracking - system. It boasts many advanced features, including: -
Powerful searching
User-configurable email notifications of bug changes
Full change history
Inter-bug dependency tracking and graphing
Excellent attachment management
Integrated, product-based, granular security schema
Fully security-audited, and runs under Perl's taint mode
A robust, stable RDBMS back-end
Completely customisable and/or localisable web user - interface
Additional XML, email and console interfaces
Extensive configurability
Smooth upgrade pathway between versions
Bugzilla is very adaptable to various situations. Known uses - currently include IT support queues, Systems Administration deployment - management, chip design and development problem tracking (both - pre-and-post fabrication), and software and hardware bug tracking for - luminaries such as Redhat, NASA, Linux-Mandrake, and VA Systems. - Combined with systems such as - CVS, - Bonsai, or - Perforce SCM, Bugzilla - provides a powerful, easy-to-use configuration management solution.