Archive for the 'bugzilla' Category

Responsible Bug Reporting

Wednesday, July 11th, 2007

A friend and I were discussing how annoying bugzilla can be the other day after a bug reporter resolved his own bug. It made sense to the bug reporter, since he had submitted a patch to fix the problem as well, but then the bug of course doesn’t show up in my open bug list, [...]

Bugzilla Annoyance.

Thursday, August 10th, 2006

Which isn’t to say I don’t like Bugzilla, I do. I still like it better than FogBugz. I’ve used both professionally, and for obvious cost concerns (FogBugz is per-seat, I don’t care what discounts they offer for non-profits,) please see the multitude of previous posts as to why I don’t like it otherwise, I [...]

Don Spolsky Sends You An Offer You Can’t Refuse

Wednesday, July 12th, 2006

You might think that I’d rather not use FogBugz….
You’d be right.Some people like it though, and since it is such a popular product, why do they like it?
Well, I’m a lazy man, so I’ll go with another ordered list to explain:

Support, when you pay for it, you get it. I’ve never had to use it, [...]

A Case for Test Case Web

Wednesday, July 12th, 2006

One piece of software I’ve been experimenting with is Test Case Web (Online Demo), Of all of the open-source web test case software, this one was among the least difficult to fix from the broken state it was in when I downloaded it to my test server. Unfortunately the reason for the ease installing is [...]

Defective Case Tracking

Monday, July 10th, 2006

Hmm, new blog, where to start, where to start… Oh, I know, I’ll just pull this old horse carcass out of the bin and….

There are lots of good reasons to not like Joel Spolsky’s take on web bug management tools, and while the above screenshot is not entirely valid, other good reasons do exist:

If you [...]