Bug tracking template
Atlassian’s bug tracking template empowers teams to seamlessly report, track, and prioritize bugs, providing a comprehensive solution for various software development issues.
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What is a bug tracking template?
Efficient bug management
Bug tracking is essential to efficient software development, ensuring that teams can identify, address, and systematically resolve issues. Atlassian's bug tracking template, powered by Jira, provides a comprehensive solution to streamline the project management and bug reporting process.
Structured format
Atlassian's new bug report and tracking template is a pre-designed structured format to help teams capture, track, resolve, and report bugs and issues throughout your entire software development process.
What does the bug tracking include?
Boards
Boards play a pivotal role in bug-tracking by offering a visual representation of issues. They provide teams with a dynamic platform to collaboratively visualize, prioritize, and track bugs throughout the software development life cycle.
Through boards, teams can efficiently categorize and manage tasks, ensuring that each issue receives the attention it deserves. This visual approach enhances transparency, reduces the risk of oversight, and fosters a collaborative environment where team members can collectively work towards resolving bugs promptly.
Backlogs
The backlog is a centralized repository where teams can easily manage and organize all identified issues. This structured approach allows teams to store bugs alongside key details such as severity, version, and more. One of the significant advantages of the backlog is the ability to assign and prioritize bugs directly from this repository.
By maintaining a well-curated backlog of bug reports, teams can systematically address issues based on their urgency and importance. This ensures that resources are allocated efficiently and the bug resolution process remains organized and streamlined.
Timelines
Timelines provide teams with an interactive and visual representation of project milestones, work items, dependencies, and releases. By incorporating epics into a timeline, teams can map out the entire bug resolution process, providing a comprehensive overview of the project's progress.
Timelines are crucial in keeping teams and stakeholders in sync, fostering effective communication and coordination. This feature ensures that all bug reporting and tracking efforts align with broader project timelines, promoting a cohesive approach to issue resolution within the context of the larger development roadmap.
Bug reports
Out-of-the-box reports and dashboards in Jira empower teams with insightful analytics and data visualization tools. These reports offer critical insights within the context of ongoing work, enabling teams to make informed decisions about bug resolution strategies. By providing a clear overview of key metrics, trends, and performance indicators, reports help teams identify areas for improvement and celebrate successes.
This analytical capability ensures that software development teams are up-to-date with bug-tracking best practices and well-equipped to adapt and thrive in response to changing project requirements.
Centralize bug reports
Track all your bugs in one place. Add context to each task with labels, custom fields, attachments, and more.
Prioritize work
Squash bugs before they cause trouble by prioritizing and assigning tasks by urgency.
Optimized for debugging
Use a workflow created specifically for bug resolution — not feature development — to keep teams focused.
How to get started with the bug tracking template
This template uses Jira to quickly capture, assign and prioritize bugs.
