Software Bug Tracking

Archive for September, 2009

I have MS project, but I don’t want to send Project files to developers and clients and other stakeholders – what alternative solutions do you use?

Oh, use Basecamp! It’s an ajax application, free for one project and cost-effective if you have more than one project.

Lots of bells and whistles, easy to use.

Ajax, in case you’re wondering (you weren’t?) is a method of web application development using HTML, XML, CSS, the DOM, maybe a little XSL, and JavaScript (all standards-driven technologies) which turns a web app into something as responsive as a desktop application, through a delightfully arcane method called the (ready?) "http request object". It just means the application can continue to ask for things from the server without the usual extra mouse clicks or other user inputs. Google maps uses Ajax to get the parts of the map you haven’t looked at yet so when you drag the map off to the side, the new information is already there.

ANYway, my design company uses basecamp to keep track of projects (milestones, project documents, todo lists, even time tracking) for about thirteen projects, currently. We can see all of the projects, and our clients can see just their one project. It’s really that extra brain we’ve been wanting.

It’s not too hard to brand it with your company’s look and feel, either.

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I am on secondment to my company IT team, responsible for defect triage and admin of a web based bug tracking dB, Bug Host Pro (www.bughost.com), while this is effective & easy to manage for the most of the time, it is costly (approx GBP400/month).

I am keen in the use of Open Source where possible, my employers are not. I am sure that there are plenty of open source defect tracking applications out there, can anyone recommend something that has similiar functionality to BH. We are need to allow external parties access to the system and would prefer a web based application with minimal installation work. Any tips would be helpfull, I would like to use my own webspace to create an example and then write my proposal, I can write the business paper, but need assistance installing the application on a web page.

Thanks in advance of any advice offered.

There are several good Open Source bug trackers.

1. Bugzilla is by far the most famous, though it is notoriously difficult to set up. Many different companies and Open Source projects use this as their bug tracker.

http://www.bugzilla.org/

2. Mantis: This one is much easier to set up than Bugzilla, and has some pretty limited requirements. I’m not very fond of the UI, but it’s a capable program.

http://www.mantisbt.org/

3. My favorite open source bug tracker is Flyspray. It is simple to install and has a good number of features without being too complicated. I would recommend this one, though you should also take a look at Mantis to see which UI works better for you.

http://flyspray.org/

4. One of the lesser known open source tracker is Eventum. This was made by the developers of MySQL, and has time tracking features unavailable in Flyspray and Mantis. I found it to have far more features than I needed, but depending on what your requirements are, it may be the best fit.

http://eventum.mysql.org/

Alternatively you could find a CMS with a bug tracking addon, such as Drupal (and the project module), or TikiWiki (and their Tracker addon).

I’m using the L10HC program, it’s nice and free, and gives me a LOT of valuable information, But it’s got bugs. I’m willing to give it up if i can find another tracker that has the same information capabilities.

here’s some of the things it does.

1) Tracks any number of pages, lists uniques and raw’s, displays them pretty much any way i want to see them. It’s all graphical, runs from a SWF page, and i can update it in realtime if i wish. The replacement doesn’t have to run in a SWF page, but i like graphical output.

2) If i put it on every page of my site (not too hard), i can track where a surfer went, what he looked at, and how long he spent on each page. This is important, i need to know what items in my store are encouraging buying decisions, causing people to go away, etc…

This program runs entirely in PHP, saving to files on the server. I have an SQL server available if your recomendation requires it.

I also recommend axs, which can be found at xav.com, but it does not have both of your requirements…

if you dont get a great answer here, fly over to hotscripts.com

submarine computerization software ?

<<A Maturity Model for Automated Software Testing
Mitchel H. Krause
Aside from their mandate to provide a safe and reliable product, manufacturers of computerized medical devices may have three very practical reasons for automating their software testing program: their product is too complicated to test manually, the time devoted to manual testing is cutting into potential profits, and current FDA requirements will be easier to satisfy with automated testing and documentation. If any of these factors motivates your company, this article will help you to sort out the issues to be considered and options available. Then, when the automated test program is in place, safer and more reliable products will follow.1 The sorting instrument presented is a maturity model that plots four levels of testing maturity in terms of the resources required to move from one level to the next. The model can be used to determine the level that best fits your company and its products.
THE SOFTWARE TESTING MATURITY MODEL
The software testing maturity model, shown in Figure 1, is similar to a software process maturity model that is familiar to many software engineers. It has been described by Watts S. Humphrey in his book Managing the Software Process,2 and has been cited by Frank Houston, a former FDA staffer, and Steven Rakitin in presentations to the Health Industry Manufacturers Association.3,4 The version shown here as Figure 2 is adapted from Rakitin’s presentation. The process model adapts well to automated software testing because effective software verification and validation programs grow out of development programs that are well planned, executed, managed, and monitored. A good software test program cannot stand alone; it must be an integral part of the software development process.
Level 1: Accidental Automation. The first level of the software testing model–like level 1 in the software process model– is characterized by ad hoc, individualistic, chaotic attempts to get the job done. Important information (for example, what to test) is not documented and must be extracted from in-house experts. Test plans are sketchy. Test results are not documented consistently. Schedules slip. Either products are delayed or testing becomes a cursory, poorly documented exercise. Management is uninvolved or uninformed.
This level has been designated Accidental Automation because the use of any automated tools or techniques comes about almost as if by accident and is not supported by process, planning, or management functions. Products released on the basis of such testing may well be accidents waiting to happen. Testing at this level may be appropriate only for a product that has no potential for harming the patient or user; it is never appropriate for a computerized medical device.
Level 2: Beginning Automation. The second testing level corresponds directly to Level 2¬Repeatable in the software process maturity model (see Figure 2). There are hundreds of capture-and-replay test tools on the market today that simply repeat the responses of a system under test.5 As in the process model, however, these tools have limited capabilities and lose their economic usefulness quickly as a product changes.
Level 2 testing is still dependent on information locked in the minds of in-house experts, although documentation is beginning to appear in the form of software requirements specifications (SRSs) and test requirements specifications (TRSs). However, in most cases, large portions of these documents are written after the fact and used to meet regulatory requirements rather than to direct the development and test processes. Writing them does, however, provide good practice for moving to level 3.
Level 3: Intentional Automation. At the third level, automated testing becomes both well defined and well managed. The TRSs and the test scripts themselves proceed logically from the SRSs and design documents. Furthermore, because the test team is now part of the development process, these documents are written before the product is delivered for testing. Consequently, schedules become more reliable. Level 3 is appropriate for many medical device manufacturers.
Level 4: Advanced Automation. The highest testing maturity level is a practiced and perfected version of level 3 with one major addition: postrelease defect tracking. Defects are trapped and sent directly back through the fix, test creation, and regression test processes. The software test team is now an integral part of product development, and testers and developers work together to build a product that will meet test requirements. Any software bugs that do occur are caught early, when they are much less expensive to fix.
When testing is performed at this level, an FDA inspector can pick up any piece of product documentation and trace the development process all the way from the SRS that describes the feature to the test results that validate it.>>

This process model — if you can call it a process model — was not really available when Collins started. I’m sure they would not have put these descriptions in their Software Engineering Management Plans.

Automated test has been around for a long time (I used it in 1986 and it wasn’t new then). It is not the automation that makes tests good or bad. It is how well the testers verify the code performs to the requirements AND how well the testers validate that the requirements are correct.

BTW, I am presenting a paper on model driven unit testing at the Rational Systems Conference in a few weeks.

I had a lot of problems with explorer to start, then things were so bogged down and my tool bar went black. After restarting the tool bar would read the hour glass and I couldn’t get in. I did a new exe search and cleaned out the prefetch, and was able to navigate and computer was fast. I was able to dl the explorer 7, but on restart the crap started up again. I ran AVG, and SUPER Anti spyware and found some tracking cookies, but nothing else. I already restored the computer back before it started, and no help. I also keep cleaning out my temp files because bugs hang out there often, and set up in prefetch to launch on restates so I cleaned that.

Oh yes, this also took place after a blue screen episode.

Any ideas? Anything would be appreciated. I think I have a bug I can’t find.
looks like I have a logonui virus / worm / trojan. I checked what was getting stuck in my prefetch first and there it is, then I checked them out on google and then when I found a malware program searched it out in my computer and found where it was hiding and removed it from all but where it’s supposed to be, which is c:\windows\system32. I’ll see how that works. Usually just removing a bad element doesn’t totally rid you of the malware, but it kicks it in the nards for a while : ).
My AVG and Super Anti Spyware didn’t find it either.

Safe Mode often prevents malware from protecting itself.

To get into Safe Mode or Safe Mode with Networking:

1.Log out and reboot your machine.
2.When the machine starts the reboot sequence, press the F8 key repeatedly.
3.Select Safe Mode or Safe Mode with Networking from the resulting menu.
4.When the login screen comes up, log in as Administrator. By default, Administrator has no password.
5.The machine will continue booting, but the Windows desktop will look different.
6.When you’re finished doing what you need to do, log out and reboot back into normal mode.

try the following programs now!

If you wanna get full security… Buy Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 or BitDefender…

Zone Alarm is also equally good…

If you cannot afford… use the following free programs, download, install, update and reboot into Safe Mode to scan:

Use Kaspersky Internet security 2009 trial version and rectify now…

http://www.kaspersky.com/internet_security_trial

or

Try Spyware doctor (free with google pack): http://pack.google.com/

Threat fire from http://www.threatfire.com/download/ (recommended)

Malware bytes from http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php (recommended) which helps you to prevent malicious programs…

Spyware terminator with web security guard n clam anti-virus (recommended) from http://www.spywareterminator.com/

To be safe…

Use malicious software removal program given by microsoft too from www.microsoft.com/downloads/

Taskbar Repair Tool http://www.majorgeeks.com/Taskbar_Repair_Tool_Plus_d4307.html

Remove Restrictions Tool: http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/RRT-Remove-Ristrictions-Tool-Download-68926.html

Use site advisors (if you have free or paid version… You must have!!!)

WOT from http://www.mywot.com/

Mcafee site advisor form http://www.siteadvisor.com/

Web security guard which will be installed with Spyware Terminator

Calling ID with toolbar n Calling ID link advisor from

http://www.callingid.com/Default.aspx

Calling ID link advisor will also protect you from clicking bad untrusted links from your email inbox or others… Just place your cursor in that link n you can find that the link is safe or not… Don’t go to the sites listed dangerous by any one of this site advisors n also don’t download from them…

(remember all I’ve listed here are trusted, 100% free, safe n powerful programs!!!)

Relax and

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i would like to see bug reports… how software tester test software and write bug reports…

please give some link to see reports…

A Java bug report is provided below.

On two occasions a person who does not wish to be located by a third party has, following being visited by me, been located. Now call it paranoia, but I can’t help but be concerned that some "person" has tampered with my vehicle and I am exposing them to this unwanted attention.

Paranoid much?????

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Graduation Project :

Tracking and Shooting Targets via Live Image Analysis

Prepared by:

Eng. Ahmad Adli Manasra
Eng. Ahmad Metwally Abdul Kareem
Eng. Ahmad Nael Hussien
Eng. Mohammad Ismail Abu Khashabah

Supervised by
Dr. Mohammad Al-Khedher

Mechatronics Engineering Department
Faculty of Engineering Technology – FET
Al-Balqa’ Applied University
Amman – Jordan
June 2009
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Our Graduation Project

in a few words:

it’s a Detecting, Tracking & Shooting system

using Image processing feature in matlab m-file
it’s consist of wooden station as a project body,2 motors, Webcam,PIC microcontroller as a contoller + Personal computer” matlab software, Cannon, laser pointer, CD as a target & a pneumatic system

thanks all

Special Thank goes to Ahmad Manasrah For this Video.
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For more Information : Ahmad.Metwally@live.com

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Bugzilla 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

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Track nº1 – Gone
Track nº2 – Sofa Rockers [Richard Dorfmeister Remix]
Track nº3 – Eastwest [Stoned Together]
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Tracks from the 1998 album: The K&D Sessions Disc 2

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