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Defect Manager is a robust and complete bug tracking system. Here is a short list of the many features supported by Defect Manager.

Complete Issue Management Solution
  • Track bugs and feature requests in your development projects, internal systems, web site, and much more
  • Supports distributed development organizations with out sourced workers, telecommuters, etc.
  • Web and Windows version give you flexible of deployment options
  • Integrated Call Tracking to support your end user community. You can even track billing billing codes, Service License Agreements and licensed products.
  • Built in Technical Support portal for your end users
  • A work queue driven system
  • A complete audit trail of all activities related to an issue are automatically recorded and maintained
  • User access is secured by user profiles in conjunction with operating system security
  • Add an unlimted number of notes for every issue
  • Defaults settings such as severity, status, etc. can be set at a project/product level can be set for an issue.
Open Solution
  • Supports Access, SQLServer, Oracle and DB2 databases
  • Defect Manager's API's allow you to integrate defect reporting into your own products, internal systems and web sites
  • Export issues to one of many external formats such as Microsoft Excel and XML.
Configurable System And Scalable
  • Supports an almost unlimited number of priorities, severities, projects, users, etc.
  • You can change any of the field names that you like. For instance if you like issue instead of defect, you can change it. Automatically every sceen , report, message, etc. uses the new name.
  • Define your own custom fields. Specify field attributes such as default values, field length, field type, etc.
  • Web user interface is customizable. The user interface source code is shipped with the product
  • The product architecture is compiled C++ COM+ objects.
Issue Filtering
  • Use one of any number of built in filters
  • Create and save your own queries
  • Complex boolean expressions are supported
  • Quick Search allows users to search any of the test fields and notes for a specific text string by product or individual
  • Search for issues by keywords
  • Search for issues by company, company location (or department) or contact
Issue Reporting
  • Use one of any number of built in report formats
  • Specify the fields you want in the report
  • Create and save your own reports
  • Report pre-viewer lets you review the report before you print it
  • Export, print or e-mail the report
  • Report Manager users XML and XSLT technologies.
E-mail Alerts
  • User can be automatically notified by e-mail/pager when certain change are made to their issues
  • Create your own alert e-mail message templates
E-mail (POP Server) Support
  • Automatically logs isses into Defect Manger from e-mails in any number of e-mailbox on your system. Now have all your support, sales, etc. e-mail accoutns automcatically logeedd and assigne in Defect Manager.
  • Set defualt assignee, status, severity, etc for each e-mailbox account.
  • Any attachemnts in the e-mails get add added to the issues as an attachment ot be reviewed.
Reminders
  • Technicians and management can be sent daily e-mail reminders of all their (and their staffs) open issues by priority
E-Tech Support
  • Out of the box technical support / customer services portal. Easy integration with your existing web site.
  • Allows users to report issues, review their existing issues, add notes to issues, upload files and screen shots related to the issues
  • Automatically adding status, work queue, priority, and technical owner.
  • Automatically send form letters to you clients when the issue is opened or closed. All form letters are customizable
  • Built in searchable knowledgebase. Issues can be published to the knowledgebase with a click of the button
  • The system is secure and protected by various security strategies
  • Users can only see their issues and knowledgebase entries for products or projects that you allow them to see
  • Create and maintain a searchable FAQ for each of your products and projects with a click of a button
  • Your clients can export their issues to Excel.
  • Your clients can also run reports and print their issues.
  • Users have a choice of many predefined filters.
  • User can updload documents and URL as attachments to any issue for you technical support staff to review.
  • With a few clicks, you can e-mail hot fixes, product support updates, system availability, etc. to your user base.
  • Export client information to other e-mail management tools.
  • Create your own custom message templates for your end user communications
  • Adds "sickiness" to your existing web site
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Issue Metrics and Performance
  • Supports defect distribution metrics by user, status, or project
  • Supports defect trend metrics by project and releases/builds
  • Metrics can be displayed in tabular form or in a graph
  • Export all metrics to external applications such as Microsoft Excel
Attachments
  • Add an almost unlimited number of attachments to an issue
  • Add an almost unlimited number of hyperlinks to an issue
Defect Chaining
  • Link similar issues to each other. When one issue is resolved they will all be closed automatically
  • Link children to defects to a base defect. The base defect can't be resolved until the dependents are resolved.
Development Tools Integration
  • Support for Microsoft Visual Source Safe
  • Defect Manager Add-In for Visual Studio 6.0
  • Defect Manager Add-In for Visual Basic 6.0
System Test Support
  • Capture all system test related information (such as test name, test case, test actions failure codes, etc.) associated with an issue
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