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~ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ~
December 8, 2004
Defect Tracker version 5.10 – PR 0049/0TR
More Information – Contact Lynn Cranford at
800-773-7785
No Kill Date!
DEFECT TRACKER 5.10 FEATURES
CONFIGURABLE WORK FLOW AND
MICROSOFT VISUAL SOURCE SAFE®
INTEGRATION
A Customizable Web Solution for Managing Software Projects
 Pragmatic Software Company announced new enhancements to
Defect Tracker
version 5.10 (http://www.DefectTracker.com), the latest version of a customizable web solution to track software
defects and manage the software development life cycle.
"For over 5 years, Defect Tracker has aided companies in managing their
software quality assurance tasks, including
requirements management, defect tracking, test case management, and file sharing", said Steve Miller, President of Pragmatic Software.
"The new features of the software are fueled by client suggestions, as they
enter these suggestions into our electronic Suggestion Box. A common
suggestion was to provide customizable workflow, integration with Microsoft
Visual Source Safe®
and more robust reporting.", adds Miller.
Customizable Workflow
The latest version of Defect Tracker greatly improves workflow by
allowing clients to define how statuses flow from one status to another and what
items are displayed, hidden, required or non-required for each status. For
example, when creating new defects, a client may want the defect to
automatically be assigned to a status of "NEW" and may want certain items filled
in for new defects (like the defect description, title, and steps to reproduce).
However, once defects are assigned to team members, the client may only want the
defect to flow to a status of "RESOLVED or ON HOLD", and may want to require
that the resolution code and resolution description be entered upon saving the
defect in RESOLVED status. The configurable workflow feature allows
the client to set these rules, identifying what states a status can transition
to and what fields of information are required, hidden, locked or non-required
for a specific status.
Visual Source Safe Integration
The Enterprise edition of Defect Tracker now provides integration
with Microsoft Visual Source Safe®.
Defects can be associated with the source code that was fixed due to the defect.
This allows teams to determine what source code models are affected by specific
types of defects, making analysis of code impact easier to understand.
Defect Tracker also integrates the standard source code management features
like GET, CHECK IN, and CHECK OUT.
More Robust Reporting
Defect Tracker was enhanced with more robust reporting, including a
myriad of new defect, test case, and functional specification reports. The newer reports allow trending of defects, test cases and
functional specifications over time, allowing teams to spot trends and determine
if the quality of their software is improving as the project progresses towards
production. Ad-hoc reports can also be created by team members, where they
can select the items they wish to appear on the report, the report layout, and
the filter criteria. For Enterprise clients, Defect Tracker has full
integration with Business Objects Crystal Reports®,
allowing teams to create their own custom reports and post them into Defect
Tracker for others to use. This integration empowers teams to post reports
from other SQL based databases (like Oracle, SQL Server, etc), allowing Defect
Tracker to double as a full reporting solution for all areas of their business.
Defect Tracker is offered as a monthly subscription starting at $ 60 per
month (2 concurrent users), as well as a
scalable enterprise solution that can
handle thousands of simultaneous users and can be branded and tailored to exact
client needs.
Founded in 1992, Pragmatic Software Company, Inc. based in Denver, Colorado
is an Internet software company that provides software products, web-based
professional solutions and software consulting services. For more
information on Pragmatic Software, go to
http://www.PragmaticSW.com or contact
Lynn Cranford at
(800) 773-7785. For more information on Defect Tracker, visit
http://www.DefectTracker.com.
To see an on-line copy of this press release, navigate to
http://www.PragmaticSW.com/Press Releases/PressRelease-0049.htm.
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