Software Bug Tracking

I am doing my senior project on Meterology and I have to do a weather report. It determines whether or not I pass the 12th grade. It would be really helpful if i could find a digital map that i could use in my presentation. Is there a FREE way to make one maybe?

Try the Naval weather site. I check out the map everytime a hurricane comes through town.

my spyware doctor detected bug "Application.Tracking cookie" and I killed it. after that, I try download antivirus into system by all means (frm internet, frm system, frm thumbdrive) but the page that I am in will immediately closed down. even if I do a search for antivirus on internet n click to open the site, it will also closed down on me. What happened! pls help! what to do to resolve and install anti-virus. BIG THANKS!

Do a System Restore. Maybe your Spyware Doctor is compromised.

DO you have any other antivirus software installed? Spydoctor is a poor excuse for antivirus software. SD only address spywares, not viruses, trojans.

On another computer, download the following:
1. HijackThis! http://www.download.com/Trend-Micro-HijackThis/3000-8022_4-10227353.html or http://majorgeeks.com/download3155.html
2. CCleaner http://www.majorgeeks.com/CCleaner_Portable_d5735.html
3. Spybot-Search & Destroy http://www.spybot.com/en/download/index.html

Then copy it to your computer. Install HijackThis and CCleaner.
Once HijackThis is installed, click on "Do a system scan only" but if you want a log, click on the first button "Do a system scan and save a logfile" When the scan is finished, look for lines which have {file is missing} or {missing file}, especially .dll. Click to check box, the click "Fix checked".

Install CCleaner, this is a portable version, just extract, then click on CCleaner.exe. Click on Registry which should bring you to Registry Integrity. Click on Registry Integrity which would remove all the checkmarks for the selection below, then select "Missing Shared DLLs, Application, Application Paths, Installer, Obsolete Software" Then click on "Scan for Issues" button below. This should clear up the non-existent direct link libraries.

Then do the following:
1. Disable your System Restore, clean up all Temporary and Recycle Bins. Use ATF-Cleaner from http://www.atribune.org , or use CCleaner
2. Boot to Safe Mode. Reboot your computer, press F8 then choose Safe Mode, login in as default Administrator. Then run HijackThis, Spybot S&D in Safe Mode. Clean/Quarantine when necessary.
3. Better yet, uninstall Spyware Doctor using CCleaner. SpyBot S&D, more robust, replaces the SpywareDoctor.
4. Shutdown computer, then restart in Normal Mode. Then install an anti-virus.

I’ve been using stat tracker for a few weeks now and as of this week, Opponent and Status are not loading. Also, no games appear when I click the NBA tab in the left pane. Sounds like there are some bugs to work out?

thats is a good questio it works fine on mine but go and email yahoo fantasy the problem it should be a week to get it to work

automated testing" ?

<<Originally published December 1994
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.>>

why do these questions always appear in philosophy? Why not in modern dance? why not in family?

No, I’m serious. I want a goddamn answer. Why does this crap always show up in focking philosophy???

I am thinking of switching my compuer to Linux…what is a good variant/release that you can recommend for stability and security?
I had an old release of Mandrake years ago…not bad but crashed a lot, full of security holes, bugs.

As well, I have WinXP pro installed..it it a pain to make a dual boot *absoultely without partitioning (don’t want to do this)*, or should I just get another machine?

My main uses: total security (total lock down with firewalls and encryption, paranoid tracking utilities) programming, word processing tools, and surfing.

THANKS SO MUCH
Also…I want something with no corporate OS hooks in it..so they can sneak around behind the scenes…Im weary of commercial variants, but again I am paranoid

I swore by Ubuntu; no partitioning work then get a second hard drive, dedicate THAT drive (don’t make a mistake of using the XP drive) for Ubuntu installation.

It will take care of boot sector automatically by default as long as XP is another bootable OS.

Try Live running for few days before install to HD.

the mp3 is located here: http://www.gigasize.com/get.php/1118154/AudioTrack_11.mp3 (22.1MB)
I suspect it was a track from either one of Paul van Dyk, Tiesto, or Armin van Buuren’s albums, but I can’t seem to find it – and it’s bugging me to death…Does anyone have a clue?
god, gigasize is slow, maybe i should’ve picked another sharing site lol.

I am going through all my ISOS…I think it is on there…I will let you know when I find out… ~N

I have Windows XP on a Dell E1505. Any shortcuts?

1. Uninstall unnecessary software..
2. Sort and organize your Data into properly named folders
3. Install a good AV like Avast or AVG, Spyware cleaner – Spybot Search and Destroy, Adaware, Firewall – Zonealarm, cleaner- ccleaner and do a thorough full scan and clean all those found.
4. Run Scandisk and defrag, to speed up ur PC.

Now ur PC should be faster and cleaner than it was before…

Do rate, if these had helped…
All softwares mentioned can be found at filehippo.com

details about bug tracking life cycle phases

Defect tracking.. U find solution to one kind of defect & confront another bug in few more days.

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).