BugZap

BugZap is a defect and issue tracking tool for Windows developed to assist in defect and issue tracking for small-to-medium size projects.

If you are a programmer or a small programming group, you might need a small, easy-to-use, but powerful bug detector.

But the feature that makes BugZap the most unique among the issue tracking systems is its component-based architecture. To an end user, this means that BugZap is not a monolithic product - instead, it consists of a small Core ("small" does not mean "simplistic" - a BugZap configuration where only the Core is installed is still a perfectly useable solution for issue tracking) and a number of Extensions, which can be installed if necessary. To give but a small example, consider the "export" functionality, which allows issues to be exported from an issue tracking tool into an external format. A typical issue tracking tool allows information to be exported in several different formats (such as "comma-separated text", "tab-separated text", "HTML", "XML", etc.) As a consequence, installing the tool causes the support code for all export formats to be installed as well, even if we do not need to ever export anything (or will always export to, say, XML).In contrast, each BugZap extension responsible for performing a specific task is a separate component, which can be installed independently of other BugZap components (more or less - sometimes there are dependencies between components; however, they are infrequent and always enforced automatically). In the above example, we won't need to install support for any of the export formats if we don't plan to export; similarly, if we always export to XML than other export formats (such as "tab-separated text", "HTML", etc.) do not need to be installed.