Which types of report are created in Bugzilla?

Which types of report are created in Bugzilla?

It has two sections to generate different type of reports – Tabular Reports and Graphical Reports.

How do we use Bugzilla?

How to use Simple search option in Bugzilla

  1. Click on “Simple Search” button.
  2. Choose the status of the Bug – choose Open if you are looking the bug in Open status and closed for bug in closed status.
  3. Choose your category and component, and you can also put keywords related to your bug.
  4. Click on the search.

Why should we use Bugzilla?

Requesting the creation of a Bugzilla account ensures that all comments added by developers or other contributors will reach the original reporter. This is also useful for informing the reporter about any changes in the status of the bug report, such as when a patch is supplied or when the bug is fixed.

Is Bugzilla open source?

Bugzilla is an open-source Bug tracking tool. Many companies are using this open-source tool for managing the software development process. Bugzilla is a defect/bug tracking tool. Bugzilla is developed in Perl and runs on an MYSQL server.

How do I start Bugzilla?

In outline, the installation proceeds as follows:

  1. Install Perl (5.8.
  2. Install a Database Engine.
  3. Install a Webserver.
  4. Install Bugzilla.
  5. Install Perl modules.
  6. Install a Mail Transfer Agent (Sendmail 8.7 or above, or an MTA that is Sendmail-compatible with at least this version)
  7. Configure all of the above.

Where do I find the reports section in Bugzilla?

For navigating the reports section in Bugzilla, we should follow the steps given below. Step 1 − Click on the Reports link in the header of the homepage. Step 2 − Bugzilla displays the Reporting and Charting Kitchen page. It has two sections to generate different type of reports – Tabular Reports and Graphical Reports.

How can I Make my Bugzilla data public?

This takes you to a search-like interface where you can define the search that Bugzilla will plot. At the bottom of the page, you choose the category, sub-category and name of your new data set. If you have sufficient permissions, you can make the data set public, and reduce the frequency of data collection to less than the default seven days.

How to create a chart in bugzilla.org?

You create a chart by selecting a number of data sets from the list, and pressing Add To List for each.

How to get a 3 dimensional bug report?

You can also get a form of 3-dimensional report by choosing to have multiple images or tables. So, for example, you could use the search form to choose “all bugs in the WorldControl product”, and then plot their severity against their component to see which component had had the largest number of bad bugs reported against it.