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title: "More bug tracking software"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/2/23/more-bug-tracking-software.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/2/23/more-bug-tracking-software.html"
published: "2003-02-23T06:20:00"
updated: "2003-02-23T06:20:00"
tags: []
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Chris wrote: Bug Tracking Alex is looking for bug tracking software. I have never used this (use a spreadsheet - the shame!) but fogbugz is supposed to be good.. You can find an exhaustive list of Bug Tracking…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
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# More bug tracking software

By Roy Osherove February 23, 2003

**Historical article** · Originally published February 23, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

[_Chris_](http://dotnetweblogs.com/Cgarrett/) _wrote:_

[_Bug Tracking_](http://dotnetweblogs.com/Cgarrett/archive/02212003.aspx#2739) _[Alex](http://dotnetweblogs.com/alowe/) is looking for bug tracking software. I have never used this (use a spreadsheet - the shame!) but [fogbugz](http://www.fogcreek.com/FogBUGZ/) is supposed to be good..

You can find an exhaustive list of Bug Tracking applications here:_

[_http://www.aptest.com/resources.html#bug_](http://www.aptest.com/resources.html#bug)

...

\[via [heLP .NET](http://dotnetweblogs.com/Pleloup/archive/02212003.aspx#2765)\]

I know of anohter windows based simple bug tracking solution:

[AdminLog](http://www.chouglesoft.com/index_al.htm) **Freeware** for SQL server - very nice and easy - works with SQL server. however, security and permissions are not implemented, yet its just what our small dev team (4 people) needed...


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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