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Defect Manager Features
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 issues (bugs, tasks, calls, questions, etc.) in your development projects, internal systems, web site, and help desk.
  • Supports distributed development organizations with out sourced workers, telecommuters, etc.
  • Web and Windows version give you flexible of deployment options. Web version support popular browsers such as Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox
  • Integrated Call Tracking to support your end user community. You can even track billing codes, Service License Agreements and licensed products.
  • Built in Technical Support portal for your clients and end users
  • Keeps a work log of user time spent on resolving issues.
  • 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 to 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 and, Oracle 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 lets the user select the Font and Font size, assisting users with visual disabilities requiring Section 508 compliance
  • The product architecture is compiled C++ and .net 2.0 code.
  • Highly scalable. We have clients that have defined hundreds of projects with hundreds users in a single system.
Issue Filtering
  • Use one of any number of built in filters
  • Create and save your own queries
  • Complex boolean expressions are supported
  • Full text search allows users to search issues for a specific text string
  • Search for issues by keywords
  • Search the knowledgebase
  • 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 email the report
  • Report Manager users XML and XSLT technologies.
Email Alerts
  • User can be automatically notified by email/pager when certain change are made to their issues
  • User can be automatically notified by email/pager when clients add notes to their issues
  • Users (managers) can subscribe to be notified for updates to any specific issue. Track "hot issues". when clients add notes to their issues
  • Create your own alert email message templates. They can be plain text or HTML.
Source Code Control
  • Track source code changes (and revision) for each issue
  • Tight Integration with Microsoft Visual Source Safe
Email Auto-responders
  • Reads emails sent to your emailboxes and automatically enters the it into the system.
  • Set issue defaults for assignee, status, severity, etc. for each emailbox account.
  • Matches the email sender to existing users in the system and automtically assigns it to them.
  • Emails are sent back to the users that sent the email.
  • Email attachments are added to the new issue as attachments.
Time Clock Management
  • Multi-user based
  • Track your time by project
  • Track your time by client
  • Track your time by issue
  • Track your time by user
  • Powerful dashboards for Managers
  • Manages In/Out times
  • Optional Punch Clock mechanism
  • Track billable and non-billable time
  • Detail reports by user by project by client by issue
  • Summary reports by week, 2weeks, bi-month, monthly and quaterely
  • Export data in CSV to third party accounting packages such as Quickbooks, Great Plains, etc.
E-Tech Support
  • Out of the box technical support / customer services portal. Easy integration with your existing web site.
  • Limit client visibility on a project by project basis portal. Easy integration with your existing web
  • Allows users to report issues, review their existing issues, add notes to issues, upload files and screen shots related to the issues
  • 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 a 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 and other formats.
  • Your clients can also run reports and print their issues.
  • Users have a choice of many predefined filters and th eability to create their own ad-hoc queries.
  • User can upload documents and URL as attachments to any issue for you technical support staff to review.
  • With a few clicks, you can email hot fixes, product support updates, system availability, etc. to your user base.
  • Export client information to other email management tools.
  • Create your own custom message templates for your end user communications
  • Forgot password support
  • Register new users
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  • Adds "sickiness" to your existing web site
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 unlimited number of attachments to an issue
  • Add an unlimited number of hyperlinks to an issue
Defect Chaining
  • Chain similar issues to each other. When the root issue is closed, all the chained will be closed automatically
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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