BugPort 1.147

The BugPort system is an open-source, freely available, web-based system to manage tasks and defects throughout the software development process.
BugPort is written in the cross-platform PHP language (using its object-oriented capabilities) and uses a relational database for storage/querying.
BugPort is in heavy use by INCOGEN for internal management of software development and QA.
Main features:
Team productivity
- Portal-based Homepage - provides quick summary view to allow user to determine what issues to address next
- Keyword Searching - uses MySQL (or, soon, Oracle) keyword searching features to allow fast text-based searches (of ALL text fields for each issue)
- Quick Search - users can search by keyword or issue ID from any page in the system
- Color coding - subtly provides information on priority and highlights important information
- Favorites Groups - users can create and share arbitrary groups of issues to improve communication
Process control
- Manages defects, tasks, and feature requests
- Supports Multiple Projects
- Manages attachment files
- Helps track related issues
- Allows multiple permission levels using User Types - Designer, Developer, Tester, Lead Tester
- Sends automatic e-mail notifications for issue changes
Project analysis
- Generates and reports historical statistics
- Tracks estimated and actual design and development hours
System foundation
- Easy to use
- Built on an easy-to-use INCOGEN-created PHP development API for simple code extensibility and re-use
- Most BugPort pages are built in less than 1 second (when running on a 1GHz Pentium server)
- Caches data extensively for performance boosts - achieved with the help of the excellent ADOdb PHP package
- Provides cross-platform compatibility