Bugzilla:Addons

This page contains a listing of Addons, Utilities, and other applications that can integrate with Bugzilla. If you know of something that's not listed here, feel free to add it (this is a wiki after all). If it doesn't fit in one of the existing categories, feel free to add a new category.

Remember, nothing listed here is officially recommended by the Bugzilla Team (nor are they necessarily not recommended), so use these at your own risk. This is just a collection of things we know about or that people have told us about or posted here.

End-User Utilities

Desktop Clients

• Tasktop (website) - Tasktop is a desktop client that includes rich editing and querying for Bugzilla tasks based on Eclipse Mylyn. Tasktop supports offline reading and editing as well as task change notifications so there's no need to receive emails from Bugzilla. Tasktop also provides sophisticated facilities for scheduling your tasks whether they are from Bugzilla, another supported repository, or your personal tasks. Integration with your web browser, Google or Outlook calendar and Google or Outlook email allow you to organize your entire work day.

• MyZilla (website) - MyZilla is a free desktop client for Bugzilla that runs on Windows. It increases the productivity of Bugzilla users through the speed of a desktop tool. Multiple accounts, convenient shortcuts, bulk operations, query management are just some of the features MyZilla offers.

• Deskzilla (website) - Deskzilla is an alternative Bugzilla client. It is a desktop application with interactive user interface and unique capabilities including offline use/synchronization that are a valuable addition to the feature-rich web-based Bugzilla software.

• Bugxula (website) - Bugxula is an extension for Firefox/Mozilla/Netscape that provides a GUI interface to several features in Bugzilla. Note: no longer maintained and only works with Firefox 1.0 to 1.5.

• BugMon (website) - BugMon is a desktop Yahoo!/Konfabulator Widget designed to give you a continually updated view of a Bugzilla Project. In addition, it can serve as a simple Bugzilla front-end, by allowing you to create new bugs and jump to individual bugs for editing purposes. Supports sorting, scrolling, color-coding, custom query strings, and more!

• Bugzmonitor (website) - Bugzmonitor is a simple widget for the Yahoo widgets engine (formerly Konfabulator)

• LiveProject (website) - LiveProject is an application made by KaDonk. It runs on windows XP, and monitors bugzilla databases "live." Users can monitor any number of databases using regular bugzilla search filters. Bugs are color coded, and provides a quick launch pad for launching bugzilla in your browser "at the right bug". LiveProject requires Bugzilla version 2.18.1 or later. LiveProject also is a free Microsoft Project Viewer. LiveProject is free for everyone.

Desktop Libraries

• Bugzproxy (website) - Bugzproxy is a C# based assembly that provides OO access to a Bugzilla server, using the WebService interface of Bugzilla 3.0RC1. It can be used to build commandline tools, VS 2005 integration, etc. Works with Linux/Mono.

Browser integration

• view bug attachment source (website) - Greasemonkey script for Firefox adds a "source" link next to the mime type of attachments, except for text/plain attachments such as patches, allowing you to view the source of an attachment that would otherwise crash Firefox when viewed normally (such as testcases).

• Jesse Ruderman's Bugzilla Bookmarklets (website) - bookmarklets for multiple browsers to make using Bugzilla or Bugzilla-related data easier.

• Igzilla (website) - Google homepage gadget to list bugs from your favorite Bugzilla instances to your personalized homepage.

• BuggyBar (FireFox extension) - Allows you to interact with bugzilla in an easy chrome sidebar.

• Interclue (Firefox extension) - has customized link previews for bugzilla tickets (and also trac trickets). Great for looking through timelines and ticket lists as it will automatically pre-cache the next and previous link in the list (without pre-caching every link on the page).

• Interdiff Link - Greasemonkey script that adds a "diff against previous patch" link to attachments that are patches.

• Bugs Dashboard - (website) - Provides the capability to easily prioritize all bugs with a drag-and-drop interface. Does the same for severities. Features a Dashboard with counts by priority (1-4), total open bugs, bugs by assignee, and bugs by component within project. Also offers listings of recent and user-defined aging of bugs..

Mail Client Integration

• User:Clarkbw/Bugzilla_Link_Grabber_Extension - Thunderbird add-on that nicely formats bugzilla links inline in messages.

Handheld Clients

• Mabugs (website): Maemo-based Bugzilla client for Nokia Internet tablets.

IDE integration

• Mylyn Bugzilla Connector (website): a full-featured client for Bugzilla that supports offline editing and change notifications. The client can be integrated into the Eclipse IDE or as a standalone application.

• Eclipse Bugzilla (website) - This plug-in integrates Bugzilla bug tracking into the Eclipse workbench. The approach for integration is a light-weight one, the web interface is used to handle common tasks and provide easier access using an Eclipse UI. The web interface is integrated in Eclipse via the SWT browser widget.

• (obsolete) Buglist: The Eclipse Bugzilla Plug-in (dead link) - Buglist integrates Eclipse IDE with Bugzilla allowing to display bug searches in Eclipse. Buglist is implemented as an Eclipse module.

• TrackLink (website): a plug-in for IntelliJ IDEA that loads Bugzilla bugs through Deskzilla desktop client. Besides showing results of selected Deskzilla filters, the plug-in is able to detect Java stack traces in an issue and apply IDEA's "Analyze Stacktrace" action to them.

IRC client integration

• Bugzilla Linker (website) - script plugin for the Colloquy IRC client (for Mac OS X) to link bug numbers mentioned in IRC channels and open Bugzilla bugs from the input line.

Project management software integration

• JujunieIntegration (Freshmeat project page) One of the integration modules in this application updates a Imendio Planner file with the time tracking information held by Bugzilla. It also updates the bugs deadline according to the project plan, and generates a mail report with a set of warnings highlighting inconsistencies between the Planner file and Bugzilla.

• TaskJuggler (website) TaskJuggler is an Open Source tools for serious project managers. See TaskJugglerIntegration for scripts that create input files from Bugzilla for a TaskJuggler project.

Integration with Source Code Management utilities

(This section covers user-oriented add-ons that work with local working directories and Bugzilla -- for add-ons that work with repositories and Bugzilla see the similarly named section in the Server-side Utilities section)

• git-send-bugzilla (website) git-send-bugzilla is a utility to upload a changeset from your git client workspace as a patch to a Bugzilla bug.

Server-side Utilities

Integration with other web applications

• Mediawiki Extension This extension checks your Bugzilla installation and adds a strikethrough to interwiki links for closed bugs.

• Zimbra (website) - Zimbra (an email/groupware product) has a Bugzilla Zimlet which will show bug information and hyperlink to Bugzilla when bug numbers are mentioned in their webmail app.

• Apache HTTPD - mod_authn_bugzilla is an Authentication module for the Apache HTTPD, that allows to use the Bugzilla database as an authentication server. There's also a patch available, which allows to use and manage the Profiles.extern_id field as a "User ID" (as opposed to Bugzilla's login_name, aka email address). Together, these tools allow, for example, to have your SVN, WebDAV, or whatever users be managed by Bugzilla.

• Rally Agile Lifecycle Management (website) - project and program management with requirements management and executive–level reporting, with connectors to several commonly used tools, including Bugzilla.

Integration with Source Code Management programs

(This section covers server-oriented add-ons that work with repositories and Bugzilla -- for add-ons that work with local working directoriesw and Bugzilla see the similarly named section in the End-User Utilities section)

• svn.it-projects.com (website) - it-projects.com integrates Bugzilla with Testopia and Subversion and offers reliable services for developers as a hosted solution.

• p4dti (website) - The Perforce Defect Tracking Integration (P4DTI) connects your defect tracking system to Perforce, so that you don't have to switch between them and enter duplicate information about your work. It also links changes made in Perforce with defect tracker issues, making it easy to find out why a change was made, find the work that was done to resolve an issue, or generate reports relating issues to files or codelines.

• SCMBug (website) - Scmbug is a system that integrates software configuration management (SCM) with bug-tracking. It aims to be a universal tool that will glue any source code version control system (such as CVS, Subversion, and Arch) with any bug-tracking system (such as Bugzilla and Mantis).

• CVSZilla (website) - CVSZilla is a small piece of Perl-glue to integrate CVS, Bugzilla and CVSWeb or ViewCVS with each other.

• CVS to Bugzilla integration - A detailed description of an email solution to integrate cvs and webcvs into Bugzilla without patching either Bugzilla, cvs or webcvs.

• Bugzilla/CVS/Wiki integration guide (website) - A detailed guide to integrate incrementally Bugzilla/CVS/MediaWiki and also mailing lists and various CVS utilities.

• Bugzilla/SVN/Wiki integration guide (website) - A detailed guide to integrate incrementally Bugzilla/SVN/MediaWiki and also mailing lists and various SVN utilities.

• svn_bz (Svn repo) - Simple script (based on Sean Foy's earlier work) to append Subversion commit messages (author, revision, changed files, and description) to bugs that are referenced in the commit description text. Designed to be used where Bugzilla and Svn are on the same server.
  • svn_bz_email_in (perl script) is a modification of this to use the Bugzilla email in feature (2.23.3+ Bug 353994). It uses Bugzilla's inbound email interface to actually parse the commit message, so the message can contain anything that the email interface supports.

• BugzillaPublisher (website) is a CruiseControl publisher. CruiseControl is a continuous integration tool. BugzillaPublisher performs following steps:
  1. Get all modifications in the modification set
  2. For each modification, extract the modification comment (aka CVS comment)
  3. Extract bug number and comment using a regexp (by default "Bug [\d+] - .*")
  4. Push a comment directly on the bugzilla database for the bug number. The new comment contains : "CruiseControl project name" + "build number" + "build date" + "commit comment" + "modified filenames list

• AccuBridge (website) - Bidirectional integration with the AccuRev SCM suite.

Test case management systems

• Salome TMF - a test management framework, with Buzilla Plugin. Salomé-TMF offers features for creating and executing tests. We use the concept of tests defined in the norm ISO9646. Tests can be manual or automatic, tests are organized in campaigns and are executed with different datasets in different environments. For making test execution fully automatic, we integrate a script language based on Java in our tool, as one of several plugins which extend Salomé-TMF functionalities. Looks like that V3 does not support anymore Bugzilla Plugin.

• Testopia (website) - a web-based test case management system that works as an add-on to Bugzilla.

• SpiraTest (website) - an integrated Requirements Management and Test Case Management suite that has the ability to log bugs during a test run and synchronize them with an instance of Bugzilla. Tested against Bugzilla v3.0.

• Testuff - an on-demand test management service that (among other things) records a video of the tested application and attaches the video to the bug reports. Testuff integarates with Bugzilla.

IRC Bots

Bots that can inhabit IRC channels and announce bug changes and/or perform queries

• supybot Bugzilla plugin (web site) - This bot plugin can do everything that the MozBot module can do, and more. It was designed as a replacement for both bzbot and the MozBot module. It can query, report changes for, and describe attachments and bugs in multiple different Bugzilla installations. It even works across multiple IRC networks. It is highly configurable on a per-channel basis, and written by one of the primary authors of Bugzilla itself. It is currently being used by GNOME and the Bugzilla project itself.

• BZBot (direct download) - announce bug changes and perform simple milestone-based status mini-reports.

• BZBot-bgo (direct download) - GNOME's modified version of BZBot

• MozBot (web site) - MozBot is a general-purpose IRC bot with lots of addon modules. It ships with a module for Bugzilla that lets you perform queries against your Bugzilla and also can announce bug changes. On irc.mozilla.org we no longer use bzbot, because this module can do most of what he used to do, but if all you want is bug change announcements, MozBot might be overkill. Note: The tarballs of MozBot on the FTP server as of this writing are VERY outdated, and do not contain a working Bugzilla module. You must check MozBot out of the Mozilla CVS repository to get a working Bugzilla module.

Data harvesting

Scripts and utilities for getting useful data out of Bugzilla

• Bugzilla Changelog (web site) - generates changelogs for a product based on bugs resolved fixed against a specific target milestone.

• BugzillaMetrics (web site) - enables the evaluation of a wide range of process metrics from the Bugzilla database.

• JujunieIntegration (Freshmeat project page) One of the integration modules in this application generates a report based on time tracking information in Bugzilla, allowing you to know the time spent by a set of users in a range of time, summarizing the hours worked by users and by days.

Quips

• bzquips (Svn repo) - Some computer-science related quips that I liked, and added to one site's Bugzilla installation. Warning: light profanity in klortho's quotes.

Skins

Flat Green (ftp) - Skin for Bugzilla 3.0 and development. Clean 'Google' like look with flat input boxes and drop down lists & thin table borders. (unpack in skins/contrib/ & set ownership correctly (or run checksetup.pl to do so))

Localization Packs

Localization packs in many languages are listed at http://www.bugzilla.org/download/#localizations