Five bug tracking tools Java developers should know

With the development of the Java ecosystem and the improvement of user performance requirements, a new type of development tools has emerged. They can both meet the error tracking needs required for rapid deployment in a fast-paced environment and observe application behavior at a deeper level than traditional methods. Recently, software analysis company Takipi summarized and introduced five such tools.

　Raygun is a web-based error management system for tracking application exceptions. It supports multiple desktop, mobile and web programming languages, including Java, Scala, .NET, Python, PHP and JavaScript. Its main features are as follows:

Bug grouping - the same bug appearing multiple times will be displayed in the same group;

Full-text search - Error groups and all collected data are searchable;

View application activity - every action on the error group is displayed to all team members, such as status updates, comments, etc.;

Affected users - the number of users affected by each bug;

External integrations - Github, Bitbucket, Asana, JIRA, HipChat, etc.

Sentry is a web-based open source solution for real-time event logging and aggregation. Supported languages ​​include Ruby, Python, JS, Java, Django, .NET, etc. Its main features are as follows:

Can be viewed in real time Impact of new deployment;

When user access is interrupted due to errors, Sentry logs can be used to provide support to him and help him restore access;

Detect and prevent deception - for example, if the number of purchases and authentication times exceeds the normal range, Sentry will send out notifications;

can integrate GitHub, HipChat, Heroku, etc.

　Takipi is a software as a service (SaaS) model that uses Java agents to perform code analysis and track code changes in real time. Most of its analysis work is done on the cloud, supporting JVM languages, including Java, Scala, Clojure, Groovy, JRuby, Jython, etc. Its main features are as follows:

Detection - all caught and uncaught exceptions, HTTP and log errors;

Sort by priority - how often the error occurs across the entire cluster, whether it contains new or modified code, and whether the frequency is increasing;

Analysis - view specific code and variable status;

Easy to install;

System resource overhead is less than 2%.

　Airbrake provides users with a web-based interface with a dashboard that records error details and application-specific views. Supported languages ​​include Ruby, PHP, Java, .NET, Python, Swift, etc. Its main features are as follows:

Detailed stack trace information, grouped according to error type, user and environment variables;

Improve team productivity - filter out important errors from complex information;

Team collaboration - see who is The member caused the bug and which member is fixing it;

External integrations - more than 30 types including HipChat, GitHub, JIRA, Pivotal, etc.

　StackHunter is a self-hosted Java exception tracking tool that is currently in beta. It notifies developers of exceptions and helps them resolve issues faster, with the following key features:

All exceptions can be viewed on a single self-hosted web interface;

Collect stack trace data and contextual information, e.g. Exceptions, affected users, affected sessions, etc.;

Send warning emails immediately when exceptions occur;

Group exceptions based on their root cause.

In addition, another tool worth mentioning is ABRT from the Fedora ecosystem. This is an automatic bug detection and reporting tool. The difference from the above five tools is that its users can be both application developers and application users. However, its support for Java exceptions is still in the proof-of-concept stage.