Below, you’ll find the best and most comprehensive free bug tracking templates, including forms for quality assurance (QA) personnel, customer service representatives (CSRs), subject matter experts (SMEs), developers, and even clients.
Included on this page, you'll find a variety of templates, including a simple bug report template and bug report forms, as well as steps to write an effective bug report.
Use this simple bug report template to standardize your company’s software bug reporting process. Enter a unique bug ID, an overview of the issue (along with a screenshot and source URL, if applicable), the software environment, the steps to reproduce the bug, the expected and actual results, and any additional details (such as the bug’s severity, who the bug is assigned to, and the bug’s priority). Download this template for a one-off, unique instance, or save it as part of a larger document for QA and development to track several instances of bugs — and keep tabs on the process, and progress, of fixing them.
This reusable template is available in Excel as an individual bug template and also as a Google Sheets template that you can easily save to your Google Drive account.
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This bug report form is a perfect fit for companies that want a simple form on which to enter all issues related to a bug. Simply enter all the details regarding the bug’s discovery, include the details of the bug’s frequency and priority, and upload any supporting attachments that document the bug. Once you’ve filled out the form, developers will be able to review the bug, prioritize it, and quickly get it fixed.
Fillable fields include the following:
Additionally, dropdown lists allow you to specify the software build in which the bug was encountered.
This easy-to-use form also allows you to select the following radio button options so that developers can quickly determine the frequency and priority of the bug:
Additionally, an Attachments section allows you to choose files to upload in order to provide screenshots to document the bug.
This form is available in Excel and Word as individual annual templates for comparison, and as a Google Sheets template that you can easily save to your Google Drive account.
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This software-specific bug report form allows you to enter all the information relevant to a bug found during testing or when using a software application. Once you’ve entered all the information, your company’s software engineers can begin to remedy the issue. Unique in its inclusion of all the major fields you’ll need to file a software bug, this simple form gives you the ability to detail the following information, so software engineers can triage the issue and fix it as soon as possible:
This form is available in Excel and Word as individual annual templates for comparison, and as a Google Sheets template that you can easily save to your Google Drive account.
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This bug report is designed for companies who want to provide their customer service representatives and quality assurance employees with a tool to file software bugs with comprehensive details. This way, developers can quickly review and fix those bugs. This template provides you with column details for the following:
This reusable template is available in Excel as an individual bug template and as a Google Sheets template that you can easily save to your Google Drive account.
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Designed with comprehensiveness in mind, this bug sheet template allows you to factor in all the pertinent details relating to a software bug. Armed with this template, your developers will have all the information they need to fix the bug. You can easily fill in the following details related to a specific bug ID: the name of the tester; the date the bug was submitted; the title of the bug; a description of the bug; the URL where the bug was encountered (if applicable); a summary of the issue; a screenshot showing the bug’s behavior; the platform on which the bug was encountered; the browser used (if an online bug); the name of the team member to whom the bug is assigned; the date and time during which it was assigned, its priority compared to other bugs; and its severity.
This form is available in Excel and Word as individual annual templates for comparison. It is also available as a fillable PDF and as a Google Sheets template that you can easily save to your Google Drive account.
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Use this simple, streamlined bug summary report template to quickly summarize the software bugs you’ve encountered. Now, your developers will be able to quickly assess what the bug entails and begin fixing it. Here are the fillable details:
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Use this comprehensive bug report template designed specifically for the people who need it most: your quality assurance team. QA employees test software to ensure that it works the way it was designed; they also test it to take note of what doesn’t work. This template tracks the bugs you uncover to provide you with a ready-made, out-of-the-box QA bug report, rather than a one-off bug filing. This template gives QA personnel everything they need, including the following:
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Track bugs’ impact on your business and software performance with this easily fillable bug report template. Columns provide you with details regarding bugs’ severity, business impact, functionality, performance, stability, and graphics/UX. Determine the severity of any particular bug (showstopper, major, minor, or low). Provide others with details of bugs’ impact on business (e.g., related to deliverables, revenue, customer satisfaction, etc.). Detail the expected functionality (as opposed to the actual functionality) that resulted in a bug. Then, document other details in order to provide members of product, QA, development, and customer service with the behavior, status, and expected time frame for fixing any particular bug.
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Next to developing cutting-edge applications, nothing is more important to a software company than fixing a current version’s defects. Without tracking these bugs, applications don’t work as designed, customers aren’t satisfied, and revenue is lost.
But, how do you track these defects? Your organization needs ensure that you track bugs correctly, document them comprehensively, and assign them to the right individuals so that developers can fix them. That’s why you need to choose just the right bug tracking template for you — to ensure that you’re delivering quality products on time and making your end users happy.
Whether a bug is found by a customer service representative, a member of QA, a developer, or even a client, you need an easy way to provide enough detail, so that you can queue up and correct the bug.
Choose a free template in one of the following formats to immediately get started filing the bugs you find:
Once you have downloaded a bug tracking template in your preferred format, fill in the following fields:
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