The web development of today is fast-paced. It requires the rapid deployment and quick collaboration between teams as feedback and issues constantly flows throughout the process. This makes the use of bug tracking tools crucial to keep the project moving forward effectively.
Why Visual Bug Tracking?
Bug tracking tools can come handy for sizable teams but when it comes to web development, these tools are not sufficient. This is where visual bug tracking steps in, in which having a live example of a bug can be helpful for teams to work faster in resolving the issue as opposed following the policy conventional tools used to track everything with just an issue ticket and not understanding the background of the issue.
In this article, we’ll focus on why visual bug tracking systems can help streamline web development as well as possible tools that can resolve your issues.
Better Context
Visual bug tracking allows annotation on prototypes, mocks, or live projects, making it easier to describe, solve, and organize issues as opposed to writing long messages and emails on issue tracking forums. With better context on bugs, testers and developers do not have to waste their time trying to reproduce bugs. Instead, they make use of screenshots and live examples. This also enables a faster feedback process, allowing changes to be applied swiftly. This is something conventional bug tracking doesn’t offer in which changes can’t be viewed and once they’ve been implemented, another round of reviews will take more time.
Web-Based Visual Interface
Responsiveness is a priority in website and application designs these days. In this context, the ability to point and click issues is a big plus. Generally, a visual bug tracker can be used either as code snippets or a browser extension that can be embedded into the code of the application, making it very simple to create a bug tracking system directly from the browser, without installing any software on the user’s end. Visual bug tracking has a lightweight nature, making it an attractive and feasible system for web development teams. Because everything is hosted on a remote cloud, collaborators and team members can access their issue dashboard anytime from anywhere.
Work for All Users and Team Members
Traditional bug tracking tools incur considerable amounts of costs, both financial and time consumed when setting up the system for various team members.
Each team consists of designers, developers, product managers, maybe even external clients who are stakeholders on the project. Requirements and technical proficiency differ from stakeholder to stakeholder when using bug tracking tools. Clients and managers may just be willing to oversee the progress, whereas developers may not necessarily want to delve into the backend code.
The ability of a system to successfully serve all these stakeholders can help a great deal in making tracking progress simpler and easier for each team member to stay up to date with the latest issues.
