Bug Tracking Software

Serge Lobko Lobanovsky

If you need time-tracking capabilities as well, take a look at our product - http://www.easyprojects.net[^] If only the defect tracking is needed, I would recommend TestTrackPro. Regards, Serge (Logic Software, Easy Projects .NET site)

Lost User

We recently adopted Bugzilla after I installed a small system on a spare NT box (!). It is a superb product - my only gripe is that the default style sheet is a bit crappy (Times New Roman? Yuck!) so I made some very minor font tweaks and it makes all the difference. Bugzilla is free, easy to get working (especially on Linux) and very powerful indeed. Our users are very pleased with it - and as a developer I find the reporting tools invaluble. If you install it on an NT box, there is a very handy web-site that documents the setup required: http://www.bugzilla.org/docs/win32install.html You need to install Apache, Perl and MySQL. It took me an hour or two to install, but when we switched my test system to Linux, it took a competent Linux guru half the time! Once up and running, it is very reliable and easy to maintain. It might save you some cash, so you'd be mad not to give it a go...

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Andy Moore

Thanks for the reply. Bugzilla sounds like it might be a good choice for us to use. How did you go about changing the default style sheet? Anyway, I think we will give this a go. Thanks.

Daniel Turini

I can't say nothing about FogBugz, but I can say that Bugzilla rules. It's hard to setup it if you don't have some experience with LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl), but somehow I managed to do it (now it would be much easier to setup!). Bugzilla is stable, fast enough, free, customizable, easy to use and has a flexible workflow. Yes, even I am blogging now!

roel_

If you find bugzilla too hard to set up or too complicated to use, have a look at Mantis. It's also free (GPL), written in PHP and uses Mysql as a database. I have it running on an NT box, with IIS, very easy to set up.

Andy Moore

Thanks Daniel. All of the above qualities are exactly what we are looking for. I have experience with Linux and Perl, although we will be running our server on XP, there are some good docs on how to set this up.

Paul Watson

>a competent Linux guru Competent guru. :-D regards, Paul Watson South Africa The Code Project Pope Pius II said "The only prescription is more cowbell. "

Lost User

I made some very basic font changes to the following Bugzilla templates: /bugzilla/css/global.css /bugzilla/template/en/default/global/banner.html.tmpl /bugzilla/template/en/default/global/header.html.tmpl If you need specifics, then drop me a line.

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Douglas Troy

We use a system called Team Track, originally an internal Intel product (if I remember correctly), that was then purchased by Serena. It's a good web-based product. You can completely customize the interface, reports, work-flow, etc... Plus it has a built-in knowledge base and Email system ... Can't tell you about the cost of the product, you'll have to visit the site http://www.serena.com/Products/teamtrack/Home.asp D.

Lost User

he he ... but I know plenty of people that *think* they're gurus in any number of subjects!!!

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Ryan Roberts

If you are using buversion for source control, then http://trac.edgewall.com is great. Integrated issue tracking, source conde control and a wiki. You can click through from a ticket resoloution to the changeset that fixed it. Looks purdy too. Needs apache, subversion and python, is easy enough to set up on windows and has an embedded database. Ryan

Kant

If you want something free, open source and in ASP.NET then try the following: Microsoft ASP.NET Issue Tracker Starter Kit[^]
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