20110903 candycane

CandyCaneA Very Sweet Bug Tracking System for You.

2011/09/03 CakeFest 2011

2011年9月3日土曜日

Who am I ?

$me = array( ‘name’ => ‘Yusuke Ando’, ‘from’ => array(‘Tokyo’,‘New York’), ‘twitter’ => ‘@yando’, ‘lang’ => array(‘PHP’, ‘Ruby’,‘JavaScript’), ‘job’ => array(‘RAKUTEN’,‘LinkShare’), ‘books’ => 3);


http://2011.phpmatsuri.net/page/what-is-php-matsuri




Agenda

• Why do we need Bug Tracking System?

• What is CandyCane?


Why do we need Bug Tracking System


What we do.


What we do.

• We write software.


What we do.


• Sometimes, we create bugs.


What we do.



• We immediately fix them if we can.


What we do.




• Sometimes, we leave them unfixed.


What we do.




• Sometimes, we leave them unfixed.

• What should we do ?


“Keeping a database of bugs is one of the hallmarks of a good software team.”


“Keeping a database of bugs is one of the hallmarks of a good software team.”

Joel Spolsky


BTS Will Save Us.


BTS Will Save Us.

• BTS certainly remember bug.


BTS Will Save Us.


• Nobody need to suffer with Excel crash.


BTS Will Save Us.


• Nobody need to suffer with Excel crash.

• We have to learn how to use BTS.


Major 6 BTS


Bugzilla (1998)


Mantis (2000)


Trac(2006)


Redmine(2006)


PivotalTracker(2008)


JIRA


BTS Trends

• Richer User Interface.

• Multiple projects support.

• Customizability, and plugin support.

• Agile development capability.

• SaaS (but you may need subscription.)


is cute.

• Built on Ruby on Rails.

• GPL

• Flexible dashboard for admins.

• Easy to develop plugin.

• Pretty popular in Japan.


Stats on Google Trends


Forbidden Truth


Redmine Books.


Registered Users

about 2 years

reach 1,000 user account within 2 years. both developers and

business people have access to Redmine.


Practices.

• Turned off unnecessary high load features.

(Repo viewer, Documents, Attachment)

• Made custom plugin.

• Be nice for Excel peoples.


Why Not Start Using Redmine Now?


Why Not Start Using Redmine Now?

Because, You Can Use CandyCane!


What is CandyCane?


CandyCane

• A Bug Tracking System built on CakePHP.

• GPL

• Started in April 2009.

• v0.8

• 2nd brother of Redmine on Ruby on Rails.


Redmine Family

0.8

0.8

1.1.1

2.2.01.2.12011年9月3日土曜日

Beginning

• April, 2009.

• Rewrite in CakePHP, line by line.

• 8 good CakePHP developers.

• Using git to maximize development speed.

• Epic 100-hours of Hackathon.

• Coding hell.


Use every trick we know.

• Component

• Behavior

• Helper

• Routing

• Unit Testing

• Plugin, Theme


CI on Jenkins


if($candycane == $redmine){ echo ‘Oh, It is very similar :)’;}


Advantage of CC

• 2-minutes installation.

• Practical Features.

• Built on CakePHP.-Not require port and memory.- We know how to maintain, extend.


2-minutes installation

• Unpack the archive under your webroot.

• Access the index with a browser.

• Type in your existing database setting.

• That’s it!

• == WordPress

• Demo


Practical!

• 134 actions.

• Up from 40 when we started.

• Basic issue management are available.

• Trimed verbose features.(Repo Viewer, Documenting, Forum)


Main Features

• Installer

• Accounts

• Multi Projects

• Permissions

• i18n

• Issues

• Roadmap

• Time Tracking

• Search

• Custom Query

• News

• Wiki


Installer

• Implemented with plugin.

• Originally from Croogo.

• Should be reusable plugin.


Project

• Top level category in CandyCane.

• Create project first.

• Add users as member of project.

• Configure wiki page, if you need.


Tracker

• 2nd level group.

• Correspond workflow in your team.

• Built in default are Bug, Feature, Support.

• You can define different workflow for each tracker type. (i.e Bug must be verified by QA after developer fix it.)


Issue

• Basic element of CandyCane.

• Have many input fields.

• Store all history of changes.

• Time tracking is optional.

• You can setup costom value for each issue.


Version

• Version correspond to release date.

• Must be configured, if you want to see beautiful roadmap page.

• Can be used as itearation or sprint in agile method.


Best Practice

• Think what will you want to see.

• Leave out the fields you don’t need.

• Create your plugin if you need.

• Hand over exported data to Excel guys.


ToDo

• Bug fix

• Migrate to Cake1.3 or Cake2

• Refactoring!

• Enhancement


https://github.com/yandod/candycane

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20110903 candycane

Technology

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todo bug x

sweet bug tracking system

plugin support

dont need

custom plugin

database of bugs

good software team