Issue tracking the process of managing and maintains listing of issues, as needed by an organization.

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How to change labels in Sourceforge bug tracker [migrated]

I am working on a project (Maxima) hosted at Sourceforge. I am thinking about changing some labels. For example, if a label is now "Foo Bar" I might want it to be just "Bar". Is there a way to change ...
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Solving which bugs will give greatest cost benefit [duplicate]

I wanted to get an idea of categorizing bugs based on how easy is it to solve and how much benefit it will give me. for e.g., if there is a bug which will take say an hour (double file close etc.) to ...
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Use TFS to track bugs from Production Support

I have just moved to a new company and they are using TFS 2010 (2012 in a couple of months) as their version control system and recently started to use it as a work tracking system for the developers. ...
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Feature code + infrastructure code - how to structure the commits / JIRA issues?

Say that you work on a feature described by a single JIRA ticket and during the work, you: Create feature-specific code like the GUI or specific use-case behavior. Some of the code was generic so ...
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Business issues in the issue tracker?

Most issue trackers are targeted towards developers. But when working in a small team that includes business people: does it makes sense for them to put non-dev issues inside the tracker? I must say ...
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Log defects for failures of other systems?

We build products which often integrate with third party systems. Sometimes these systems error, which in turn causes our system to error. For example, we call a web service when a user updates ...
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Solution with multiple projects and (GitHub) single issue tracker and repository

I have a Visual Studio solution with multiple projects: Acme.Core Acme.Core.Tests Acme.UI.MvcSite1 Acme.UI.MvcSite2 Acme.UI.WinformsApp1 Acme.UI.WinformsApp2 ... The entire solution is checked-in ...
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Issue tracking system by function/method

I often feel that it would be more convenient if, within an issue tracking system, each issue were attributed to a certain function/method. Then, we can easily list all the issues related to a certain ...
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How to close a bug that is no longer relevant

I'm currently on a medium-sized team of web developers. We're using jira for bug tracking. We're working on a product with frequent layout changes. A lot of times bugs are filed about a bug in the ...
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Distributed Issue Tracking

Distributed issue tracking seems like a belting idea to me, but it has never really taken off in a big way. Is there a good reason for that? I am aware of: bugz everywhere too complex to set up ...
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Why do some big projects, like Git and Debian, only use a mailing list and not an issue tracker?

Bug tracker for any decent sized project seem like a bit of a no-brainer to me - it makes it really easy to organise hundreds or thousands issues, without issues colliding or getting mixed up. So ...
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Why is it so hard to get employees to update the issue tracker?

I've always had this struggle to get folks to update their issues, both at my company and at work. I've had a few cases when people actually do it from the goodness of their heart, but ~70% of the ...
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Where can I turn to if I can't fix a bug?

I am looking for resources to turn to when I don't have the answer for something. I lead a team of software developers. We have been rolling out new software releases on a monthly basis. When there ...
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Why do most issue tracking systems have only single status field? [closed]

Most issue tracking systems have only single status field. Typical Status: New -> Fixed When code is pushed to repository with commit message "Fixed issue #1234", the issue #1234 is automatically ...
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Redmine (or Trac) integration with custormer issue-tracking system

I'm working in an software development area in my university, and we've noticed we need some system to track errors and bugs, who and when it is dealed. I've reseached about some software ...
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Encountering the same issue in an application

I've often come across the situation when the same mistake is made in many places in an application. For example, in a web application when the user creates an item and clicks the Add button to save ...
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how do you sync your task and ticket management tools? [closed]

We have several ticket management tools at work... Redmine, Jira, and Oneversion depending on the particular project and so client. I have one todo app I use for both home and work. My problem is ...
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Features that encourage use of project management software

I'm a student and I work as an undergrad in an IT department. They are very effective programmers, but as far as documenting what they do and tracking what time is spent on specific tasks - not so ...
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How to report a bug in MS Access/VBA [closed]

Question: If you find a bug in a "classical" developement tool, you usually prepare a minimal working example, browse to the vendor's online bug tracker and file a bug. For example, you'd report ...
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How to avoid duplication between my issue tracker and the project specification documents?

I used to work for a professional consulting firm, and we worked under many different contract terms. When we could get a time & materials project, we ran it with SCRUM and tracked the backlog in ...
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Unforeseen Spike in a Sprint… what to do?

I did a look around and couldn't find a question that addresses my case, so I figured I would post. I have a situation where as a new team, we ran into 2 unforseen spikes (is there a better term?) ...
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should you always enter a bug in a bug tracking system [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Should developers enter bugs into the bug tracking system? Should I log trivial fixes? For a project I'll be doing in school soon I will be working with 6 other ...
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Bug / issue tracker integration with bazaar

I am currently working on a project, and I am using bazaar - installed on my server - to do version control. I use the eclipse plugin and bazaar explorer to interact with bazaar repository, but I want ...
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How should I organize bugs in redmine?

I'm helping to reogranize several redmine projects; although I have a lot of experience with issue tracking systems, I've never worked with redmine before. What is the best way to organize Issues in ...
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Forking a repo on GitHub but allowing new issues on the fork

I have previously forked other people's repos on GitHub, and I have noticed that issues stay with the original repo, and that I can't file issues on the forked repo. I now have the following task. I ...
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Integrating feature request functionality directly into the business software you write?

What are relative merits of something like a button on a piece of custom bizware that says, "press me to ask for a feature" or "click here if something didn't work right". The problem I'm trying to ...
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What level/format of access should be given to a client to the issue tracking system?

So, I used to think that it would be a good idea to give the customer access to the issue tracking system, but now I've seen that it creates less than ideal situations, like: Customer judging ...
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What to do when issue-tracker is down?

It has happened in our team that our issue-tracker is down. Happens about once a week now (yes, wow), and there's not really much we can do to get it back up, since it's hosted by our client in a ...
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Agile Tools For Handling Multiple Projects

Currently I'm leading our agile team in an iteration manager role as well as doing my regular dev work. One of the difficulties I'm facing as an IM is tracking burn-down/burn-up; not because I can't ...
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Responding to end users about bugs they found

I have an issue tracking system, but sometimes users report bugs directly to me in an email. If I'm responding to a bug report in an email, what's a good etiquette to use? Do I thank them for ...
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Is it a bug or a task when something doesn't work, yet, in development process

We usually have this dilemma in our team. Sometimes, in order to implement a task or a story we find out that the system must be in a specific state. For example, a specific system configuration has ...
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How to use TFS as a query tracking system?

We already use tfs for managing defects in code etc, etc. We additionally need a way to "understand the domain & requirements of the products". Normally, without tfs we exchange emails with the ...
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What makes for a good JIRA workflow with a software development team?

I am migrating my team from a snarl of poorly managed excel documents, individual checklists, and personal emails to manage our application issues and development tasks to a new JIRA project. My team ...
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schedule compliance and keeping technical supports and resolving issues

I am an entrepreneur of a small software developer company. The flagship product is developed by myself and my company grew up to 14 people. One of pride is that we've never have to be invested or ...
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Bug Tracking Etiquette - Necromancy or Duplicate?

I came across a really old (2+ years) feature request issue in a bug tracker for an open source project that was marked as "resolved (won't fix)" due to the lack of tools required to make the ...
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Bug severity classification issues

In a book I have, there is a following classification of defect: Critical : A defect receives a “critical” severity level if one or more critical system functionalities are impaired by a defect with ...
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Are there any nice, integrated solutions for Bug/Time tracking and Project Management? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Are there complete packages for bug/time tracking, invoices and project management? A similar question was asked 2 years ago: Are there complete packages for bug/time ...
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Manage process and activity follow-up [closed]

I work for a company that handles a lot of different process. I want everyone to use a common tool to : make a request follow-up opened requests through the different steps of the process write ...
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How can I get an anonymous user to submit bugs on a private GitHub project?

Our company has a private GitHub repository for the project I'm working on. After a full summer of work, it looks like we'll be launching this week (wheee!). However, I want to include a "submit a ...
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Issues Tracker for both developers and end users

currently, we have a closed source project on hand. However, we would like to have a communication channel together with our end users. We would like to have our end users to know, what features we ...
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Best practice for marking a bug as resolved in Bugzilla ?

I am wondering what is the best way to handle the situation of marking a bug as resolved and providing a version of component/product in which this fix can be found. Context For a project I am ...
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Any suggested approaches to track bugs/defects?

What is the best way to track defect sources in tfs? We have various teams for a project like the vulnerability team, the customer, pre-sales, etc. We give a build and these teams independently test ...
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How to talk to management about using integrated project management/bug tracking

Background: I have just started at a new shop, where there is one other developer. This shop was not historically a software shop, and their software development process really shows it. They ...
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What's better in terms of user experience - providing an email address or a link to my projects github account?

What's better in terms of user experience? Provide the user an email account where he can report bugs, or a link to the projects github issues page (which requires a github account but may be easier ...
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Requirements/issue tracker similar to online spreadsheet

Is there a requirements/issue tracker software which is similar to Google spreadsheet? We have Fogbugz but I find it more heavyweight and slow than a simple spreadsheet. Is there a Fogbugz ...
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How to solve installation errors reported by users, on Android?

I've some application on the Google Play, free to download, but I have some people reporting things like: "There has been problem installing on my htc x." How do I help these people? I could ...
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Test-driven development: To create test when issue is filed or when issue is picked up by somebody?

I've recently been working on a web development project on a team of less-than-five people. Things are going good but now we are decided to go with test-driven development. So far what I've learned ...
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Is it good practice to comment with issue number?

I saw many issue numbers from comments of jQuery code(Actually, there were 69 issue numbers in jQuery code). I think it would be good practice, but I've never seen any guidelines of this practice. ...
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How to handle bugs that I think I fixed, but I'm not entirely sure

There are some types of bugs which are very hard to reproduce, happen very rarely and seemingly by random. It can happen, that I find a possible cause, fix it, test the program, and can't reproduce ...
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Should cases be reopened for bugs, or should bugs be opened as a new case?

Currently at my work place we use FogBugz for managing all our features and bugs for our different web applications. When a new feature is to be added to one of our web applications, a new Case is ...

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