14.1 Implementing a Bare-Bones Defect Tracker with BugTracker.NET
Not everyone wants to deal with the pain of setting up and maintaining a Bugzilla instance for defect/issue tracking. This is especially the case with smaller projects, where the small team of developers just doesn’t have the skill set or time to deal with that overhead.
BugTracker.NET is a lightweight, easily installed defect/issue tracker built against .NET 2.0. It doesn’t have all the shiny toys provided by Bugzilla or other trackers like Gemini, but its beauty lies in its out-of-the-box simplicity.
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Tool | BugTracker.NET |
Version covered | 2.2.5 |
Home page | |
Power Tools page | |
Summary | Simple to set up and configure, easy to learn and use defect/issue tracker |
License type | GNU |
Online resources | Forums, bug tracker |
Supported Frameworks | .NET 2.0 |
Related tools in this book | CodeTrack, Bugzilla, Trac |
Getting Started
BugTracker.NET is a web-based issue tracker, so you’ll need IIS and .NET 1.1 or 2.0 running on your web server. BugTracker.NET will work with either SQL Server or MSDE, and success has been reported with SQL Express.
Tip
BugTracker.NET will run on the .NET 1.1 platform, but you’ll need to recompile several assemblies. Instructions to do this are included in the .zip distribution.
Getting BugTracker.NET up and running is a pretty ...
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