Introduction to Mantis Bug Tracker
Mantis bug tracker is one such tool that can serve the purpose of Bug tracking. Mantis BugTracker or MantisBT got started developed by Kenzaburo Ito in the year 2000. Jeroen Latour, Julian Fitzell, and Victor Boctor joined in the year 2002 and it became a team project
Mantis software is developed in PHP language, and supports databases like MySQL, MS SQL, PostgreSQL, and numerous browsers, but not limited to Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, Opera. The UI of Mantis tool is built using HTML and CSS.
Salient features of MantisBT
- Mantis tool is available as open source in the marketplace. Mantis supports numerous browsers and supports almost all platforms like Windows, Ubuntu, Linux etc.
- Mantis supports Multiple projects per instance with per project user access thus maintaining proper isolation between projects, and the team working on them. It also supports sub-projects and categories
- Reported bugs can be exported to CSV, xlsx
- Option to integrate with third party plugins so as to track time required for a specific project
- Email Notification triggers automatically on any update in a reported bug
- RSS feed report
- Mobile access is available through Mantis Touch
- Advanced search tools
- Document management
- Revision control integration
- User-based
- Time tracking
- Customizable pages
- Optional wiki and chat integration
Following are the software packages which we require to install MantisBT:
- Operating System: MantisBT supports multiple OS platforms like Windows, MacOS, OS/2, Linux, Solaris
- Web server (Apache): MantisBT supports Apache Web server and Microsoft IIS. If you are using any other Web server, then PHP must be configured with it
- PHP
- Database: MantisBT stores its data in a database. Recommended database for MantisBT is MySql, however different RDBMS are supported by MantisBT are like MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle
- Browser: MantisBT supports most recent browsers like Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari etc.
To install PHP, MySQL, Web server altogether on Windows we can use WampServer.