What are the elements of a team development suite?

Question

For small-to-large teams developing software together, what tools are used to form a comprehensive team development framework?

Specifically, I'm looking for a comprehensive list of all the individual functions involved (e.g. source control, bug management, testing tools, project management), not specific product recommendations. I'm also not restricting the list to a particular methodology (e.g. Scrum).

Answer 1

You've hit the major ones in your post:

• IDE (Integrated Development Environment)
• Coding Guidelines (sometimes looked over, but it still helps tremendously)
• Source Control
• Testing Suite (Unit Testing, Test Case/Test Script Management and Tracking)
• Issue Tracking/Bug Reporting
• Build Management

...I'm sure I'm missing something obvious, but somebody around here will correct me.

And the one I missed...

• Diagraming software (I.E. Rational Software Modeler, etc.)

Answer 2

• Source control (obviously) including branch management
• Issue tracking (features and bugs), possibly with task reassignment and forwarding, and often things like screen recording
• Individual task management, sometimes integrated with the issue tracking system
• Communication software. Some teams use emails and IMs even within the same building or tweets. There are some tools that integrated within the code so you could "chat around a piece of code". Screen and application sharing are also useful.
• Good build tool.
• Distributed pair programming tools if applicable, shared editors otherwise.
• Similar support in case tools.

Less commonly used but promising tools (from academic background), some now have IDE based versions.

• Real-time awareness (prevent nerge conflicts by letting you know somebody is working on the same file before you actually write code)

• In-code social tagging, useful for bootmarking specific items

• In-code contract communication tools (e.g., make a caller aware of special expectations in the invoked method as a way of avoiding errors).

Answer 3

A few more:

• Requirements management software
• Code review software
• Continuous integration tool
• Documentation repository - e.g. Wiki