Open Source Software Engineering

Softech Systems
(Private) Limited

Introduction

Software Engineering Processes, with all their steps are vital for achieving good quality However, in small, medium and large software houses, these processes are often ignored, thus resulting in poor quality

Small software houses usually constrained by too few human resources Medium / large software houses usually constrained by delivery time

It is a typical Pakistani tradition to do everything with bare hands and manual labour Reasons

Licensed CASE Tools are too expensive Force of habit, tradition and culture always done things manually

Solution

If software houses use automation and open source tools availble in all disciplines of software engineering, then they can

Overcome the resourse scarcity Overcome the schedule crunch Overcome the cost of licensed software Achieve the highest quality brought about by executing all the requirements of software engineering, rather than neglecting them

A Brief initial survery shows hundreds of open source software engineering tools available

Several tools are very popular, already downloaded more than 1 million times This is only an initial survey relies on the evaluation of others So far only from SourceForge.net A industry academia task force is needed to actually download and use some of these tools and provide feedback on which tools are the best, what are each tools strengths and shortcomings If you are already using any open source tool, please provide a 1-page summary 3

Example

If even a small software house sets up an automated configuration management and build management system to

Auto-compile the project nightly from the CM repository and Auto-run regression test cases

Then bugs will be identified early, which would otherwise require running of hundreds of manual test cases A lot of manual effort will be saved The overall quality will be improved

Software Engineering Disciplines

Requirements Management Project Planning and Management Software Process / Metrics Design / UML Modeling (Design / Database Design) Development Cross-Platform Development Workflow / Business Process Design Development Frameworks, Libraries, Toolkits Reporting Tools Code Generators Code Quality / Coding Standards Checking

Communication, Collaboration and Coordination Integrated Code Documentation (Configuration Management, Build Management) QA Unit Testing, Code Coverage Test Case Management Regression Testing Bug / Issue Tracking Customer Support

Requirements and Specifications Management

JEREMIA - Requirement Management System 10,160

An open source requirement management system. With Jeremia it is possible to describe requirements and requirement documentation within one system. The requirements and requirement documents are stored within a database. Agile requirement management tool. Its main goal is to give the developer community a free, user friendly, and powerfull tool for requirement analysis and change management. A web-based tool for requirement and use case tracking. It has fileupload, discussions, version control, usecase history, build and release management. It supports assignment of requirements & use-cases to releases and filtering over all fields. Provides a tool for requirement capture, usecase capture and requirement analysis in a multiuser setup

JREQUISITE - Requirement Management Tool 3,035

TRUC - Tracking Requirements & Use Cases 2,080

Requirements Manager 2,918

Requirements Management

Requirement Heap 1,520

A simple web based requirement management application. It allows to enter requirement in rich text, supports versioning and the management of requirements. Swing Java Application manages software requirements and associated functional tests, including results, showing requirements/tests traceability at all time. Requirements and tests are formatted as in text processor; print-ready documents are generated. EMF 2.0 generated Eclipse plugin to produce an XML Based, Use Case centric, Software Requirements Specification with linkage to external documents and resulting software components. Generates sophisticated html reports. Based on http://xmlbasedsrs.tigris

SLAM Software Lifecycle Artefact Manager 423

Eclipse XML based SRS 5,842

Requirements Management

Jeremia

JEREMIA helps during system development and enhancement with tracking the requirement changes throughout the systems lifecycle, development artifact by development artifact. With JEREMIA you can capture your requirements, analyze and classify them. You can link requirements, so that it is possible to trace requirement changes from requirement to requirement. JEREMIA comes with a set of process oriented standard documentation templates. Your captured requirements are automatically included into this documentation. It is possible to export the documentation for further print processing to XMLDOCBOOK format. The requirements and requirement documents are stored within a database. Currently JEREMIA supports MySQL databases.

Project Planning and Management

OpenProj - Project Management 1,230,745

OpenProj by Serena Software is a desktop replacement of Microsoft Project. OpenProj has equivalent functionality, a familiar user interface and even opens existing MSProject files. OpenProj is interoperable with Project, with a Gantt Chart and PERT chart Use it to define tasks, assign resources, and create gantt charts. A simple, scriptable, cross-platform, open source aid to project management. Onepoint Project is the first open source project leadership software integrating project and resource management, planning, progress tracking, monitoring and controlling into an easy-to-use tool. Innovate, web based project management software. It is easy to use and requires little training on behalf of the end user. It's a new way of taking your project anywhere. You can have unlimited staff, organisations and projects. A software project management tool to manage your estimates, project information, issues, releases, scrum tasks, timesheets and test execution results. 10

GanttPV - Project Scheduling Software 198,433

Onepoint Project 91,291

Virtual Project -Project Management 30,471

Project Dune 12,794

Project Planning and Management

FDD Project Management Application 7,690

An application for Feature Driven Development (FDD). FDD is one of the agile software development methodologies. Gives a platform for project team management software on web. maybe it works just like SF, but we desired for a most useful WebUI for all user who want management a project, join a project, with public project tasks schedule and workflow support! A Project Management System for Software Development Projects in .Net & MySQL. It covers WBS, Task Approval, Assignments, File Upload, Time Recording, Status Reports, Bug Recording, SRTM, Rework Reports, Dev. vs Test Time, Bugs Ratio, etc. An Enterprise Integrated Platform for distributed or centralized software project management. Its main features includes project management, portfolio management, resource planning, schedule management, time tracker.

Project Management On Web 4,594

VIENNA Project Management System 1,093

Pleno 909

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Project Planning and Management

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OpenProj

A open source replacement of Microsoft Project and other commercial solutions Download more than 1,250,000 times in the few months since launch and is being used in over 142 countries Available on Linux, Unix, Mac or Windows Opens existing Microsoft or Primavera files OpenProj shares the industry's most advanced scheduling engine with Project-ONDemand Provides Gantt Charts, Network Diagrams (PERT Charts), WBS and RBS charts, Earned Value costing and more. There is literally no time or effort involved in switching to OpenProj, and your teams can manage projects on any platform for free.

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Software Process / Metrics

Software Process Dashboard 78,564

A tool to support individuals and teams using high-maturity, metrics-intensive project management methodologies [such as PSP(SM) and TSP(SM)]. Supports personal and team earned value tracking and forecasting; simplifies metrics collection and analysis. StatSVN is a metrics-analysis tool for charting software evolution through analysis of Subversion source repositories. Tikal's open source Application Development & Deployment is comprised of fully integrated suites that cover the entire software life-cycle, include tools for development and deployment of applications, software configuration management and ASQA. An open source project which aims to provide automated support for software process management.

StatSVN 33,899

Tikal 5,319

WebAPSEE - Flexible Process Management 1,726

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UML Modeling

StarUML 875,674

An open source project to develop fast, flexible, extensible, featureful, and freelyavailable UML/MDA platform running on Win32 platform. The goal is a compelling replacement of commercial UML tools such as RationalRose, Together and so on. A program for creating Unified Modelling Language (UML) diagrams of software. Umbrello 1.5 is available as part of KDE 3.5 or for download from here. A UML editor with these benefits: Very easy to learn and use. Draws nice-looking diagrams. Completely free. Cross-platform. Violet is intended for developers, students, teachers, and authors who need to produce simple UML diagrams quickly. UML class diagrams editor Targets development of a visual UML editor for the popular Eclipse IDE. The visual UML editor plugin is fully compatible with the Eclipse Framework and allow developers easily to model and document their software through the UML2 diagrams.
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Umbrello UML Modeller 255,712

Violet UML Editor 97,340

UML Sculptor 42,659

VUML 31,410

UML Modeling

Java UML Generator (JUG) 25,052

Tool for automatic generation of UML Class Diagrams out of Java Class Files. Originally designed as a command line tool to convert .class/.jar files into .emf/.eps files, it now offers a visual environment. A powerfull modeling software, easy to use, ready to work by Cay Horstmann. It draws nice-looking class, sequence, state, object and use-case diagrams. This plugin embeds Violet into Eclipse. SEE A FLASH DEMO ON MY HOMEPAGE. A trimmed-down UML editor that lets you create and share UML diagrams with people on many different platforms and generate Java source code from A plugin for Eclipse provides an IDE for OCL 2.0 and UML. From a combined OCL / UML model a fully working prototype can be generated. Octopus can import XMI from various UML tools. Octopus means OCl TOol for Precise Uml Specifications.

Violet UML Editor Plugin for Eclipse 20,684

Quick UML for Java 15,736

Octopus 11,656

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UML Modeling

UML Model transformation tool 9,750

UML transformation tool; developed in Java and XSLT; Runs on any java 1.3+ platform. Environment for code generation from UML models, based on XMI, e.g. to J2EE, webservices, xml schema; New generators (xslt/java) can be plugged in. An open source modeling tool for creating, updating and visualizing relational database schemas. You can create a new UML model of database elements, import relational catalog meta-data and generate SQL create statements from the model. An object-oriented domain modeling tool to create enterprise models using an UML class diagram, an object-event table and finite state machines. The CASE tool checks view consistency, has XMI support and code generation abilities.

DB-UML Database Modeling Tool 9,321

Enterprise Modeling Aid 5,621

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UML Modeling

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StarUML

An open source project to develop fast, flexible, extensible, featureful, and freelyavailable UML/MDA platform running on Win32 platform. The goal of the StarUML project is to build a software modeling tool and also platform that is a compelling replacement of commercial UML tools such as Rational Rose, Together and so on. MDA (Model Driven Architecture): MDA is a new technology introduced by OMG. StarUML is designed to support MDA and provides many customization variables like as UML profile, Approach, Model Framework, NX(notation extension), MDA code and document template and so on. They will help you fitting tool into your organizational cultures, processes, and projects. Plug-in Architecture: Many users require more and more functionalities to software modeling tools. StarUML provides simple and powerful plug-in architecture so anyone can develop plug-in modules in COM-compatible languages (C++, Delphi, C#, VB, ...) Usability: StarUML is implemented to provide many user-friend features such as Quick dialog, Keyboard manipulation, Diagram overview, etc. StarUML is mostly written in Delphi. However, StarUML is multi-lingual project 19 and not tied to specific programming language

Cross-Platform Development

wxWidgets 4,683,671

A free C++ framework that facilitates cross platform software development, including GUIs, threads, sockets, database, file system access, etc. An open-source cross-platform IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for C/C++. Designed with flexibility in mind, most of its features are provided by external modules (plugins) making it easily extendable and configurable. Visual Tcl is a freely-available, high-quality application development environment for UNIX, Windows, Macintosh and AS400 platforms. Visual Tcl is written entirely in Tcl/Tk and generates pure Tcl/Tk code. A cross-platform C++ rapid application development suite. It includes set of libraries (for things like GUI and SQL) and an IDE. Rapid development is achieved by smart and aggressive use of C++ rather than through fancy code generators. A cross-browser, cross-platform, cross-language web development platform for building 20 rich-internet applications based on a service-oriented architecture.

Code::Blocks 1,608,661

Visual Tcl 200,317

Ultimate++ 172,217

Appcelerator 28,580

Workflow System / Business Process Design

Open Business Engine 33,642

A Java workflow engine implementing Workflow Management Coalition Open Standards (WfMC: XPDL, WAPI, Auditing). Highly modular and configurable, it suits J2EE or embedded deployment. Supports integration via Web Services etc. A workflow engine written in Java. The engine is very fast and lightweight, uses a very expressive Petri net notation to define workflows, does not requires a RDBMS and is very simple to use and to integrate with java applications. Designs workflow/business process modelling (bpm) diagrams and exports (and imports) them, usually as XML, to workflow engines after model validation. It allows quick and easy integration of new workflow formats. A flexible, java based workflow server that runs on top of tomcat. It reads its workflow definitions from XML files. Administration and tracking of workflow instances, execution of individual tasks can be done via the web and SOAP interfaces.
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Bossa Workflow 20,558

Java Graphical Process Designer 18,360

SWAMP 18,316

Workflow System / Business Process Design

PL/FLOW 12,702

PL/FLOW is a workflow engine written in Oracle PL/SQL, implementing interfaces 1 and 2 (Process Definition and the client API) as specified by the Workflow Management Coalition Micro-workflow targets Java developers seeking to build flow-independent applications. Micro-workflow allows developers to pick and choose the workflow features. It also lets them customize existing features and add new ones. The wftk (open-source workflow toolkit) is a workflow engine in library form which can be integrated with whatever you need to integrate with.

Micro-workflow 10,744

wftk: Open-source workflow toolkit 10,331

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Development Frameworks / Libraries / Toolkits

Visual WebGui Ajax framework/platform 248,380

Visual WebGui is a RAD AJAX RIA framework/platform for developing & deploying AJAX GUIs. This AJAX framework simplifies AJAX development and cuts programming by 90% with intuitive WinForms-like Visual designer of AJAX controls which flattens web dev. openMDX is the leading open source MDA platform. Generic, model-driven framework. Ultra-fast, platform-independent development. No proprietary model tagging. No cumbersome generative PIM-to-PSM mappings. Supports J2SE, J2EE, CORBA, and .NET. Click Framework is an easy to learn and use J2EE web application framework. Click is designed for web app development by commercial Java teams. With Click developers should be able get up and running within a day. An Enterprise Focused Java Framework For Rapid Application Development. JAFFA is a Java web application development stack, extending exsiting projects like Tomcat and Struts with MVC based web widgets, built-in persistence and component generators too 23

openMDX - Open Source MDA platform 128,562

Click Framework 27,376

Java Application Framework For All 24,464

Reporting Tools

iReport-Designer for JasperReports 1,710,008

iReport is the most popular visual reporting tool for JasperReports (Java reporting library) and JasperServer (reporting server). You can manage charts, images, subreports, etc. Data sources: JDBC, TableModels, JavaBeans, XML, Hibernate, CSV etc. Output Report Manager is both a print scheme designer (report) and a high level printing (reporting) engine. Also a TCP Report Server and a Web Report Server (PDF on the fly), supports Windows and Linux. Connectivity to almost all databases is provided. OpenReports is a powerful, flexible, and easy to use web reporting solution that provides browser based, parameter driven, dynamic report generation and flexible report scheduling capabilities. Supports JasperReports, JFreeReport, JXLS, and Eclipse BIRT The Report.NET library contains classes that generate precise PDF documents. It's written in C# for the .NET platform. ASP.NET can be used to create dynamic PDFresponse pages. Designer for Jasper is a visual report designer for the Jasper Report writer.
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Report Manager 357,907

OpenReports 226,715

Report.NET 152,355

Designer for Jasper 60,547

Reporting Tools

Agata Report 38,370

Agata Report is a cross-platform database reporting tool with graph generation and a query tool like Crystal Reports that allows you to get data from databases and export that data as many formats or even generate a complete ER-diagram. ART is a lightweight, multiplatform web based query tool and reporting environment. Scalable and easy to use, SQL queries can be published in a few minutes. Supports tabular, crosstab, charts, scheduling; data exportable to spreadsheet and pdf. 100% Java Open Flash Chart. Line, bar, pie and area charts. Looks pretty. We have PHP, Perl, Python, Java and DOT NET libraries

ART 20,354

Open Flash Chart 132,107

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Code Generators

MyGeneration Code Generator 82,678

An extremely flexible template based code generator written in Microsoft.NET. MyGeneration is great at generating code for ORM architectures. The meta-data from your database is made available to the templates through the MyMeta API. .NET O/R Mapper & Code Generator. Simple GUI creates a robust data layer supporting CRUD, transactions, foreign-key & mapping table relationships, strongly typed queries, SPROCS... in pure C#. Easiest O/R Mapper out there. Generate your code in minutes. A Web Application generator, based on Struts Framework. Karapan Sapi will generate some common code that always repeated in developing web application. Karapan Sapi automatically create SQL DDL, Java Object, DAO code, Struts Action etc A php code generator, which can help you to build a MySQL driven system with the feature of add, edit, drop, list records stored in MySQL. It's features: use smarty as template generate well orginagized code all can be don in browser.
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OR.NET - .NET O/R Mapper /Code Generator 24,817

Karapan Sapi Struts Generator 21,839

PHPGEN 6,128

Code Quality / Coding Standards Enforcement

JRefactory 85,386

A refactoring tool for the Java programming language, it includes the JavaStyle pretty printer, a UML java class diagram viewer, a coding standards checker and computes program metrics. Plugins for jEdit, Netbeans, JBuilder and other IDEs available. A plugin which integrates the Checkstyle style checker for Coding Guidelines into Eclipse. All Java style violations will be immediately reported by error markers. Coding Guidelines can be configured for each project separately. A highly configurable checking tool for your Java source code. It checks the compliance to a defineable coding standard like naming conventions and code structure. Also signs of bad coding, potential bugs are found. JCSC is inspired by lint. A sophisticated code quality assessment and coding standards technology for Java development detecting potential software defects at compile time. It offers the ability to significantly reduce code review effort by automating a major portion of it Eclipse plug-in, built on top of existing tools such as Checkstyle, Findbugs, JDepend to 27 help realize code quality standards. Gives a snapshot of code quality during development

Checkclipse 46,434

Java Coding Standard Checker (JCSC) 18,072

QJ-Pro 15,159

Code Quality Plugin 3,155

Integrated Code Documentation

Natural Docs 50,874

An open-source documentation generator for multiple programming languages. You document your code in a natural syntax that reads like plain English. Natural Docs then scans your code and builds high-quality HTML documentation from it. A documentation tool. It extracts the documentation from your source code and formats it in HTML, RTF, TeX, XML DocBook (PDF), or ASCII. Works with C, C++, Fortran, Perl, Scripts, Assembler, Tcl, Basic, and any language that supports remarks.

ROBODoc 23,408

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Other Misc Development

Open Computer Vision Library 2,100,322

The Open Computer Vision Library has > 500 algorithms, documentation and sample code for real time computer vision. Tutorial documentation is in O'Reilly Book: Learning OpenCV A whole bunch of utilities for primitive manipulation of graphic images. Wide array of converters from one graphics format to another. E.g. from g3 fax format to jpeg. Many basic graphics editing tools such as magnifying and cropping. A complete business intelligence platform that includes reporting, analysis (OLAP), dashboards, data mining and data integration (ETL). Use it as a full suite or as individual components that are accessible via web services. Ranked #1 in open source BI. ETL, data warehousing, data mining, OLAP, business intelligence (BI) in Java. 500+ modules: extract, transform, load (ETL), data mining, data analysis + Weka, statistical forecasting, preprocessing, validation, visualization, OLAP, business intelligence.
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Netpbm - graphics tools and converters 581,970

Pentaho - Business Intelligence 1,942,046

RapidMiner -- Data Mining, ETL, OLAP, BI 431,766

Communication, Collaboration and Coordination

eGroupWare: Enterprise Collaboration 2,028,701

eGroupWare is a multi-user, web-based groupware suite. Currently available modules include: email, addressbook, calendar, infolog (notes, to-do's, phone calls), content management, wiki, project management, tracker, timesheet, knowledge base Powerful multilingual Wiki/CMS/Groupware: File/Image gallery, Article, Blog, Tracker/Forms, Forum, Poll/Survey & Quiz, Newsletter, Calendar, Drawing,Bookmarks, FAQ, Banner ads, Categories, Spreadsheet, Maps, Workflow, Search, Theme control, WAP, VoiceXML, RSS, LDAP, Stats... MindTouch is an enterprise collaboration, wiki and mashup platform. Easily connect people, enterprise systems, web services, and Web 2.0 applications for business automation and superlative wiki collaboration. RESTful wiki, Service wiki Programmable wiki TWiki is a structured enterprise wiki with over 400 extensions. Users without programming skills can create web applications. The majority of Fortune 500 companies uses TWiki, with installations of 100,000s of pages. Visit http://twiki.org/
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TikiWiki CMS/Groupware 734,228

MindTouch wiki Collaboration 458,573

TWiki Enterprise Wiki 101,806

QA Unit Testing, Code Coverage

JUnit 2,783,208

JUnit is a simple framework for writing and running automated tests. Brings xUnit-style unit-testing to all .Net languages. Initially ported from JUnit, the current version has been re-written to take advantage of .NET language features EclEmma is a free Java code coverage tool for Eclipse, available under the Eclipse Public License. Internally it is based on the great EMMA Java code coverage tool, trying to adopt EMMA's philosophy for the Eclipse workbench. A fast Java code coverage tool based on bytecode instrumentation. It differs from the existing tools by enabling coverage profiling on large scale enterprise software projects with simultaneous emphasis on fast individual development. CodeCover is a free glass box testing tool that measures statement, branch, loop, and MC/DC coverage. CodeCover supports coverage reports per each test case.
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NUnit .Net unit testing framework 1,787,406

EclEmma - Java Code Coverage for Eclipse 1,259,538

EMMA code coverage 91,254

CodeCover 42,208

QA and Test Case Management

SW Test Automation Framework 334,310

The Software Testing Automation Framework (STAF) is a framework designed to improve the level of reuse and automation in test cases and test environments. The goal of STAF is to provide a complete end-to-end automation solution for testers. Bugzilla Testopia is a web-based test case management system that works as an add-on to Bugzilla (https://www.bugzilla.org). A testcase management, logging, reporting and test automation tool, similar to the commercial product Test Director. Features: Progress stats, reports, test case import from CSV,doc,web or SQL, STAF plugin. SQL database. Speeds QA and software testing

Testopia 18,528

Testmaster 10,417

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Regression Testing

DataVision 163,738

DataVision is a reporting tool similar to Crystal Reports. DV supports many data sources (JDBC, files) and many output formats (HTML, XML, PDF, LaTeX, Excel, delimited files, DocBook). DV includes a GUI editor. DV is embeddable. Reports are XML-based. TestLink is a web based Test Management tool. The application provides Test specification, Test plans and execution, Reporting, Requirements specification and collaborate with well-known bug trackers. WebInject is a tool for automated testing of web applications and web services. It can be used to test system components with HTTP interfaces, as a test harness to create a suite of functional and regression tests, or for service-level monitoring. Sahi is an automation and testing tool for web applications, with the facility to record and playback scripts. Features include, in-browser controls, text based scripts, ant support for playback of test suites, reporting, and multi threaded playback.
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TestLink 119,598

WebInject - Web/HTTP Test Tool 65,056

Sahi - Web Automation and Test Tool 45,547

Bug / Issue Tracking

Bugzilla Mantis 839,828

Mantis is an easily deployable, web based bugtracker to aid product bug tracking. It requires PHP, MySQL and a web server. It is simpler than Bugzilla and easily editable. Check out the online Demo. Online project management and issue tracking with team collaboration, user management, multiple access levels, tasks, projects, time tracking, task change history, multiple attachments, overview diagrams, Gantt graphs, reporting language, report client.. itracker is a true open source issue tracking system licensed under the LGPL license. itracker is built using Java enterprise technology. itracker is a professional, easy to use, open, easy to integrate, fast, modular, customizable and scalable solution Highly configurable bug tracking, project management, and help desk solution. Project focus is on configurability, usability, and clean code.
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Track + Issue Tracker 109,225

itracker 75,818

zenTrack - project/bug tracking software 64,916

Issue Tracking for Customer Support

Tremendously improves quality of customer support and customer satisfaction Enter all Phone / Email Client support requests in Issue Tracker Auto-email to client a ticket number Team Lead Assigns Developer Classifies issues understanding, client error, bug, new feature etc Checks which issues are still open / open for long time Developer works on and closes the issue, enters time worked Auto-email to client that the issue is closed Reports on how much work done for support of each client in each category Developer time sheets Reports on average time to close issue, longest open issues, number of open issues etc

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