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Bugzilla vs YouTrack: What are the differences?
What is Bugzilla? Server software designed to help you manage software development. Bugzilla is a "Defect Tracking System" or "Bug-Tracking System". Defect Tracking Systems allow individual or groups of developers to keep track of outstanding bugs in their product effectively. Most commercial defect-tracking software vendors charge enormous licensing fees. Despite being "free", Bugzilla has many features its expensive counterparts lack.
What is YouTrack? The issue tracker designed for agile software teams. A project management tool that can be adapted to your processes to help you deliver great products. Track tasks and bugs, plan sprints and releases, create workflows, and customize for your business processes.
Bugzilla and YouTrack can be primarily classified as "Issue Tracking" tools.
Some of the features offered by Bugzilla are:
- Optimized database structure for increased performance and scalability
- Excellent security to protect confidentiality
- Advanced query tool that can remember your searches
On the other hand, YouTrack provides the following key features:
- Agile Boards
- Reports
- Dashboards
According to the StackShare community, YouTrack has a broader approval, being mentioned in 22 company stacks & 15 developers stacks; compared to Bugzilla, which is listed in 7 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.
YouTrack feels much more lightweight than Jira and additionally have all of features that Jira have, of course lacks at some analytics features, but it's more powerful at permission management and agile workflow. Additionally YouTrack have awesome integration with other JetBrains products such as incoming JetBrains Space and all other IDEs such as GoLand.
Pros of Bugzilla
- Free2
- Open source2
- Detailed1
- Easy to use1
Pros of YouTrack
- Cheap and well featured2
- Good looking, well done, comfortable0
- Cheap0
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Cons of Bugzilla
Cons of YouTrack
- Poor ecosystem integrations (ex. Slack)1
