Bug Tracker 1.0
Bug Tracker is a "Defect Tracking System" or "Bug-Tracking System". Defect Tracking Systems allow individual or groups of developers to keep track of outstanding bugs in their product effectively. Bug Tracker has many features its expensive counterparts lack. Consequently, Bug Tracker has quickly become a favorite of organizations across the globe.
What Does Bug Tracker Do?
- Track bugs and code changes
- Communicate with teammates
- Submit and review patches
- Manage quality assurance (QA)
Bug Tracker can help you get a handle on the software development process. Successful projects often are the result of successful organization and communication. Bug Tracker is a powerful tool that will help your team get organized and communicate effectively.
Advanced Search Capabilities
Bug Tracker offers two forms of search:
- A basic Google-like bug search that is simple for new users and searches the full text of a bug.
- A very advanced search system where you can create any search you want, including time-based searches (such as "show me bugs where the priority has changed in the last 3 days") and other very-specific queries.
Email Notifications Controlled By User Preferences
You can get an email about any change made in Bug Tracker, and which notifications you get on which bugs is fully controlled by your personal user preferences.
Bug Lists in Multiple Formats (Atom, iCal, etc.)
When you search for bugs, you can get the results in many different formats than just the basic HTML layout. Bug lists are available in Atom, if you want to subscribe to a search like it was a feed. They're also available in iCalendar format, so if you're using the time-tracking features of Bug Tracker you can see where your bugs fit into your calendar!
There are even more formats available, such as a long, printable report format that contains all the details of every bug, a CSV format for importing into spreadsheets, and various XML formats.
Scheduled Reports (Daily, Weekly, Hourly, etc.) by Email
Bug Tracker has a system that will send you, another user, or a group that you specify the results of a particular search on a schedule that you specify! It can be at any time of day, and it can happen as often as every fifteen minutes.
Access to this system is controlled by Bug Tracker groups system, so you can limit who has access to it, and separately, who is able to send reports to users other than themselves.
Reports and Charts
Bug Tracker has a very advanced reporting systems. If you want to know how your bug database looks right now, you can create a table using any two fields as the X and Y axis, and using any search criteria to limit the bugs you want information on.
Time Tracking
You can estimate how many hours a bug will take to fix, and then keep track of the hours you spend working on it. You can also set a deadline that a bug must be complete by.
For installations that don't need time-tracking, you can turn off these fields. You can also control who is able to see them. (Just modify the timetrackinggroup parameter!)
Request System
The Request System is a method of asking other users to do something with a particular bug or attachment. That other user can then grant (say "yes" to) your request, or deny (say "no" to) your request, and Bug Tracker keeps track of their answer. You can use it for various purposes; whether you need to ask for code review, request information from a specific user, or get a sign-off from a manager, the system is extremely flexible and can do what you need.
Private Attachments and Comments
If you are in the "insider group," you can mark certain attachments and comments as private, and then they will be invisible to users who are not in the insider group.
Users will know that a comment was hidden (because the comment numbering will look something like "1, 2, 3, 5" to them), but they will not be able to access its contents.
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