There are different ways of viewing the state of the bug database. However, representing reports through graphs is always better. You can either use an HTML table or graphical chart to run the reports.

The graphical reports in Bugzilla make use of the standard search interface and plot some aspect on the horizontal and vertical axes.  You can choose the ‘Multiple Pages’ option to get a 3-dimensional report. Such reports can be helpful in one or more ways. For example, you can view and compare the number of bugs associated with each component. X-axis can be used to represent severity and Y-axis for the component.

View and Compare Bugs

Once you generate the report, it will show the Bar chart representing Bug severity, as shown below.

Bug Severity

You can follow the below mentioned steps to view reports graphically.

  1. From the Main menu, click on Report.
  2. From the options given, click ‘Graphical reports’.Graphical Reports
  1. You can compare the current status or % completed with Deadline by creating a graph. For this, mark % complete on the vertical axis and Deadline on the horizontal axis.
  1. Set the following options.
  • Vertical Axis
  • Horizontal Axis
  • Multiple Images
  • Format- Line graph, Bar chart or Pie chart
  • Plot data set
  • Classify your bug
  • Classify your product
  • Classify your component
  • Classify bug status
  • Select resolution
  • Click on generate reportField Options
  1. The image of the graph will look something like this.Graph

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