It’s not easy to stay disciplined in filing and updating bugs. With small teams, it’s even more difficult to implement a disciplined approach in the absence of a dedicated project manager to tune things. And without having a central system where everyone can access the bugs, teams waste their time and effort as they fail to track and analyze bugs. This affects the transparency and consistency of the bug tracking process.  

Without bug management tools, decisions can’t be made quickly. These tools provide the essential metrics and data (bugs fixed, bugs remaining, etc.) you need to analyze progress and determine the future course of action. These tools work as a central repository where all the bugs can be time tracked, prioritized, tagged, searched, and sorted. This keeps all your important information just a few clicks away.

How Bug Management Tools Ease Workflow for Small Teams

Low Barrier to Entry

Simple bug management tools allow team members to easily file and locate bugs. The predefined template to file bugs takes all the required information to reproduce the issue into account. This results in a consistent bug filing process.

High Usability

Bug management tools increase the usability of bug list to manifolds. The collection of bugs is turned into a useful resource that gives a broad overview of the project status and enables you to track the progress and performance of the project. These tools provide all the information regarding the delivered and pending features, duplicate issues, sprint cycles, deadlines, and roles with just a few clicks.

Provide Context

Whatever view it is, bug management tools act as a central repository to refer past, present, and future bugs. Hundreds of bugs can be taken at the same time without the concern of losing them. They also help you estimate resource requirements and resource utilization.

Reporting

Reports, be it daily, weekly, or monthly, are generated by bug management tools that serve as a great metric to analyze and manage project progress and performance even outside the system. These tools can also benefit those members of the team who have a habit of using excel sheets. They can export the desired reports in CSV format and derive meaningful insights by using it with their favored tools.

Conclusion

Bug management tools broadly differ in aspects such as what root problem they intend to solve, pricing, how clients and other stakeholders access the system, underlying technology, and support workflow. In the same way, each team is unique and has its own set of motivations and peculiarities. Therefore, choosing a tool that fits your team and overall requirements takes a serious effort. A tool with which each member on board is open and comfortable.