The world of technology is evolving with every passing minute. New software products are launched and the old ones receive new updates for old features along with some new features. However, the tools designed to keep the software of all sorts of updated and well-managed needs to be updated and well-kept too. If you are aware of these tools called issue tracking tools, you must already know about their importance and how they have replaced a lot of software testing houses. These tools have managed to make the lives of the testers and software houses a lot easier.
While the world of the tech keeps evolving and the cyber threats keep coming back stronger too, do you think these tools should be updated too? If your answer was yes, we are glad to share that these tools are constantly updated so they can keep you and your company safe from all threats and updated to face all recent issues. If you are wondering what updates or new features you can expect in these tools this year, we have made a list of all the cool features for you. Have a look at them.
Efficient Product Management
Usually, when someone says issue tracking tools, the first thing that comes in your mind is that these tools are meant to only test your software for the possible vulnerabilities and find solutions for them. In order to break this stereotype and provide more features to the users, tracking tools have geared up to provide management support as well. This feature enables the testers to integrate most of the issue tracking applications with your project management software. This makes it easy for the testing team to keep an eye on the number of bugs identified, the status of each bug, debugging time, and all other features.
Better Prioritization of the Bugs
Once the bugs are identified, it becomes hard to solve all of them at once. This is something that even the experts of the team fail to do. Hence, it forces the team to sit down for a few hours and decide the priority of each bug. You can imagine what does a few hours mean for a company when it is constantly struggling to become successful. The new feature of tracking tools assigns priority to each vulnerability on its own so the testers can focus more on solving the bugs rather than spending their energy in winning an argument about which bug should be resolved first.
Collaboration at its Best
The tracking tools coming in the market now are focusing on keeping the whole team together and when we say the whole team, we mean the developers and the testers. It is clear that both parts of the team must work in collaboration for better results. It promotes collaboration between the developers and testers, which helps in getting all of the bugs fixed fast and in a better way ensuring no issues. The team can create tickets, discuss issues, give feedback, and decide on the final solution to be implemented.
Cloud-based Services
The era of the in-house software is long gone. Now, people prefer to have issue tracking tools that can be accessed from anywhere in the world and at any time round the clock. So the companies have integrated this feature of offering cloud-based services in the modern tracking tools as well. This promotes real-time collaborations between the team members. If you have to share documents and have meaningful conversations via email almost every day, then you’re not really working together. This way of working can introduce delays in delivery. The feature of a cloud-based system ensures everyone is virtually on the same page, which boosts the efficiency and productivity towards a singular end.
More Integrations
The developers of the bug tracking software are aware of the fact that a testing company needs more than just a tracking software. They know the team is using more than one application to turn every project of theirs into a success story. This has made the developers add more options for app and software integrations for this tracking software. Now, this software can be integrated with management apps, test case creation apps, virtual environment apps, and a lot more. So you do not have to be worried about running between different app windows as you get to see everything working just fine in one environment. This really sounds like a big deal as it saves time, improves efficiency, and helps deliver even better results.