Dariusz on Software Quality

27/09/2012

Time Tracking in Bug Trackers

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Modern bug tracking software are not only the bug trackers. There are more features. Typical additional components that are included are:

  • Wiki systems: to share knowledge
  • Estimations
  • Time tracking

I’d like to focus today on time tracking capabilities and compare few mainstream bug trackers: Trac, Redmine, FogBugz, Jira.

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05/10/2009

My Favorite Trac plugins

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In this article I’ll present Trac plugins that are most valuable IMHO. Trac is very easy to extend:

  1. Download plugin code (as zip of checkout it from subversion)
  2. Call python setup.py install as root
  3. (Optional) Upgrade database schema if needed: trac-admin <trac-env-path> upgrade
  4. Add some options to ini file
  5. Restart Trac process

After above steps you should see Your plugin is working.

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04/10/2009

Mantis to Trac migration

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Mantis and Trac are both bug tracking systems. A bug tracking system is a software application that is designed to help quality assurance and programmers keep track of reported software bugs in their work. It may be regarded as a sort of issue tracking system (Wikipedia). In this article we will use Trac’s alias for an issue: Ticket.

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Recently I decided to replace Mantis installation used for one of my customers into Trac. Mantis worked pretty well until the date, but had missing features when compared to Trac:

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