Any suggestions for good, solid, bug tracking solutions that let me (and company members) document bugs in 1-or-2-click steps? Basically I grew tired of all the overhead Mantis brings in... All I need is a list (do away with assign/status/priority/notes, phew! we're a small company!). I'm tempted to write it up in CakePHP, but before I...
I'm currently evaluating the MSF for CMMI process template under TFS for use on my development team, and I'm having trouble understanding the need for separate bug and change request work item types. I understand that it is beneficial to be able to differentiate between bugs (errors) and change requests (changing requirements) when gene...
I was hoping someone could help me out with a problem I'm having using the java search function in Eclipse on a particular project. When using the java search on one particular project, I get an error message saying 'Class file name must end with .class' (see stack trace below). This does not seem to be happening on all projects, just o...
When using IE, you cannot put an absolutely positioned div over a select input element. That's because the select element is considered an ActiveX object and is on top of every HTML element in the page. I already saw people hiding selects when opening a popup div, that leads to pretty bad user experience having controls disappearing. F...
I'm currently looking at Bugzilla and Trac, as they seem to be the most popular (and I'm hoping that also means if there are any problems, it will be easier to get help), but I'm curious what solutions you use or have used and what your thoughts are. I'm currently leaning toward Trac, as it's Wiki functionality can be used to support do...
Hello, Is there any opensource or public domain repository of bugs where one can see the various bugs, symptoms of those bugs, and their fixes. The bugs could be from any part of the code, OS, GUI, device drivers etc. I guess if at there is anything like this, it might be from some open source development initiative like Linux Kernel D...
Hi all, There's a discussion going on over at comp.lang.c++.moderated about whether or not assertions, which in C++ only exist in debug builds by default, should be kept in production code or not. Obviously, each project is unique, so my question here is not so much whether assertions should be kept, but in which cases this is recommen...
A reliable coder friend told me that Python's current multi-threading implementation is seriously buggy - enough to avoid using altogether. What can said about this rumor? ...
High-quality bug reports are essential for effective bug tracking - in an ideal world all bug reports would contain essential information such as which version of the software it affects and a step-by-step description on how to reproduce the bug. In reality, though, bugs reported can vary a lot in quality. They might be on-liners ("feat...
It will be important for developers wanting to develop for the chrome browser to be able to review existing bugs (to avoid too much pulling-out of hair), and to add new ones (to improve the thing). Yet I can't seem to find the bug tracking for this project. It is open source, right? ...
If you've used Oracle, you've probably gotten the helpful message "ORA-00942: Table or view does not exist". Is there a legitimate technical reason the message doesn't include the name of the missing object? Arguments about this being due to security sound like they were crafted by the TSA. If I'm an attacker, I'd know what table I jus...
Is there any way to enforce a template in Bugzilla to guide users fill in bugs descriptions ? Actually, i'd like to put some markup texts in the bug description field and avoid the creation of custom fields. I've installed version 3.2rc1. Thanks in advance ...
I found a bug in the Contains statement in Linq (not sure if it is really in Linq or Linq to SQL) and want to know if anyone else has seen this and if there is a fix or workaround. If the querysource you do the contains with has more than 10 items in it, it does not pass the items correctly to the SQL query. It is hard to explain what i...
Is there a service, similar to uservoice.com for bug reports? It should very easy to use for normal, non-techie users be free be easily maintainable ...
I recently came across an IE7 only bug that I thought I'd share so when I come to this site 6 months from now to figure out the same thing, I'll have it on hand. I believe the easiest way to recreate this bug would be the following: <div style="overflow: auto; height: 150px;"> <div style="position: relative;">[...]</div> </div> ...
This has me puzzled. This code worked on another server, but it's failing on Perl v5.8.8 with Date::Manip loaded from CPAN today. Warning: Use of uninitialized value in numeric lt (<) at /home/downside/lib/Date/Manip.pm line 3327. at dailyupdate.pl line 13 main::__ANON__('Use of uninitialized value in numeric lt (<) at /home/dow...
Generally, what's the best way to tackle a layout bug in IE6? What are the most common bugs or problems that one should look for when trying to figure out why your page suddenly looks like a monkey coded it? ...
Test the following code: #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> main() { const char *yytext="0"; const float f=(float)atof(yytext); size_t t = *((size_t*)&f); printf("t should be 0 but is %d\n", t); } Compile it with: gcc -O3 test.c The GOOD output should be: "t should be 0 but is 0" But with my gcc 4.1.3, I have...
Hi there, this is a bit of a philosophical question. I am adding a small feature to my software which I assume will be used by most users but only maybe 10% of the times they use the software. In other words, the software has been fine without it for 3 months, but 4 or 5 users have asked for it, and I agree that it should be there. The ...
We've all had those moments: if coding was a spectator sport, the crowd would be cheering you on, and going wild when you score the goal / touchdown / try in the last seconds of the game. This question is the opposite of the Confessions of your worst WTF. It's your chance to show off, and talk about your heroics to people that understa...