Explain Mantis Testing Tool in brief | Software Testing Tool

In this article, you will get to know about the following:

• What is Mantis?
• Features of Mantis

What is Mantis?

It is a free and open-source web-based application tracking tool. It tracks the bugs throughout the defect life cycle. It also manages the release features of a project and software. It is also called as MantisBt, which means Mantis Bug Tracker. Its name and logo refer to the Mantidae family of insects. It is referred to as a bug in the software. It serves demo, download, and hosted versions of the software. It supports multiple features of Issue Tracking and life cycle along with Release management. 

Features of Mantis:

It supports a wide variety of features to attract QAs and other testers for bug tracking.

• Collaboration and Hassle-Free: It makes the collaboration very easy with the team members and clients. The clients and team can use the same set of data but it is available only for licensed users. 
• Email notification: All the users and team will get an email notification when any changes, updates, features are added and bugs are reported. Always get an email notification even when a small change is made. It is helpful to check the progress of the project.
• Access control: Admin is allowed to give access to the user of the project based on their individual roles in the project. It works differently for different projects. The user may have different permissions and access for different products. 
• Customization: It supports customization on every level. The user can customize fields according to the issue's creation and view. The user can customize the field for issue workflow and notification too.
• Dashboard: It displays various reports such as tasks assigned to the user, unassigned to the user, bugs or other things reported, and many other standard filters belonging to the individual user.
• Release Management: It helps the team in tracking the software release versions. It has the complete details about each released version. It helps in marking the issues faced in previous versions. It summarizes the complete information to have a better understanding.
• Time Tracking: It supports its own in-built time tracking features. Users can write down the time spent on each issue. It helps to collectively report the time taken to resolve the issue as a team or individual.
• Plug-in Support: It easily supports more than one 100 add-ins to connect with various software. 
• Customer Support: It is a popular feature of Mantis. It integrates the support with your internal issue tracking system.