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Project dashboard
With project dashboards you can compose overviews of the bits that matters the most.
A multitude of views to choose from and integration with searches and data types produce accurate and up-to-date statistics.
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Intelligent searches
The Bug Genie generates intelligent searches such as "All open issues", "Issues reported last x days", "Milestone todo-list" and more for all projects.
These are easily accessed from the "Issues" tab in all project spaces.
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Project teams
Your developers, teams, users and clients can all be associated with projects.
Assign them roles on a per-project basis, and make sure users only see what they're allowed to.
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Separate project spaces
All projects in The Bug Genie have their own separate "spaces", where all issues, wikis, files, etc are kept. You can easily move between project spaces as well as project space sections such as jumping between project wikis and project issues. -
Project timeline
The automatic timeline feature gives a complete overview over your project history way back to the beginning. Code checkins, issue comments, descriptions and changes all show up as they are being commited, so you can always be kept informed. -
Complete project hierarchy
The Bug Genie supports a complete project hierarchy, including editions, releases, components as well as parent, child- and subprojects - and you can build it as you please. Access control features lets you define who can see what parts of the project. Don't want everyone to see the internal build - no worries, The Bug Genie lets you do that!
This is without a doubt the best bug tracking software I've ever used
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Find, don't search
Finding issues in The Bug Genie is simple and fast, thanks to its awesome filter view.
Customise search results, grouping, columns and save it to give you the right information at the right time.
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Readable issue views
The Bug Genie doesn't clutter your issue pages - it puts the information you need right in front of you.
Logical grouping such as "People involved", "Time tracking", etc. keeps your developers in the know
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Friendly issue reporting
Reporting a new issue in The Bug Genie is a simple and uncomplicated process. Click a button; fill out a few fields; press "File report", and you're done.
No wizards, no complicated technical jargon, no hassle.
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Complete issue type scheme support
All issue types in The Bug Genie have their own field configuration, deciding what's available, reportable and required.
This also extends to custom fields and can be reused across projects.
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Custom issue fields
Add any number of custom fields to your issue types and issues - custom text input fields, multiple choice dropdowns, custom status fields, and more.
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RSS support
The Bug Genie exports all searches - predefined and custom searches - as well as the project timeline as RSS feeds. Import the RSS feed into your favourite RSS reader (such as Google reader) and be on top of any changes. -
Helpful quicksearch
Integrated quicksearch lets you quickly glance at any issue you'd like. Enter anything that can be an issue, and the quicksearch will find it. Select it from the list to navigate to an issue, or just get an overview.
The quicksearch also lets you search through wiki articles, teams, users and more.
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Built-in wiki
The Bug Genie comes with a complete wiki package, supporting advanced wiki formatting and functionality to let you organise your documentation or help guides the way you want.
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Markdown support
Choose between the simpler markdown syntax and the powerful but more advanced mediawiki syntax when writing wiki content.
You can also use these for any text content in The Bug Genie.
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Intelligent content parsing
The wiki will sense links to other content such as pages, issues, users and teams.
Also included is syntax highlighting via GeSHi for better code display.
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Powerful wiki package
Using either classic mediawiki syntax or markdown, The Bug Genie wiki lets you build your documentation content as you want.
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Article commenting
Allow users and developers to interact via your wiki or article pages. With full commenting and notification support for wiki pages just as issues, users can provide feedback when content needs updating or adjusting. -
Wiki attachments
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Revisions and history
The Bug Genie wiki supports revision-based history and lets your compare or restore any revisions in the article history.
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Categories
Included in the wiki is also full category support with automatic page categories. Put any article in any category, and The Bug Genie will automatically keep track of category content.
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Wiki namespaces
Each project has its own wiki namespace, but you can add any namespace to your wiki, as well as sub-namespaces.
You can even control read-write access per namespace, and export / import namespaces separately.
A really cool project management and bug tracker - recommended!
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Integrated triaging
Quickly triage issues using either built-in "user pain" functionality, or classic priority, reproducability, severity and custom fields
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Burndown charts
Whether you subscribe to Scrum or Kanban methodologies, burndown graphs are your friend.
Automatically get burndown charts for remaining sprint or milestone effort using The Bug Genie.
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Interactive planning
The project planning board lets you assign issues to sprints, milestones or your backlog without effort.
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Issue coloring
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Automatic roadmaps
The Bug Genie creates automatic roadmaps for your milestones and sprints, and gives you instant information about your current sprint or milestone progress. -
Live estimation
Estimate issues from the planning page, issue filter pages or in the issue view itself. Milestone workload or remaining sprint effort updates automatically to keep everyone in the loop. -
Pair programming
Everyone that's ever tried it loves it, and The Bug Genie loves it too. Team up with a colleague (or a stranger, if that tickles your fancy), assign issues to the two of you and let everyone know how awesome you are!
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Your source, you control
The Bug Genie supports and integrates with several different version control systems: Git (including GitHub, Gitorious, Bitbucket and several other third-party git repository hosting services), Mercurial and Subversion.
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Instant notifications
The Bug Genie will automatically update issues based on your commit messages - with the same powerful issue detection algorithm as is used in the rest of The Bug Genie, don't worry about what your commit messages look like. If you understand it, so does The Bug Genie. -
Your code at center stage
It's all about the code you write. The Bug Genie automatically creates updated file lists; issue commit comments; links to diffs and previous revisions; and more, all from your commits.
Commits also show up in the project timeline and project dashboard, to make sure you never miss that critical fix again!
... a wonderful platform for bug tracking!
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Graphical configuration
The Bug Genie is configured via the same interface you see when using it.
No text file editing, no restarts, no magic.
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Fully customisable workflows
With the built-in workflow editor, The Bug Genie adapts to your team or company workflow as needed.
Full support for specifying transition views, pre- and post-validation to enforce your workflow means The Bug Genie adapts to you - not the other way around
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Full access control
Access to any parts of The Bug Genie can be controlled. From all open to all closed - you decide the access control rules
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In your language
Localized fully or partially in more than 20 languages, chances are The Bug Genie speaks yours.
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Change anything
The Bug Genie ships with many default values, settings, data types and fields - which are all configurable. If you don't like it, change it; add new items or delete existing ones.
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Inherently modular
The Bug Genie can be extended via modules built to work with it. Modules are managed directly from the configuration center - find, add and remove modules; enable or disable them; configure module settings and access - all from the configuration center -
Users, groups, teams & clients
Organise your users as you need to: add, remove and modify teams and clients straight from the configuration center. Assign your projects to clients to give them instant access.
Teams and clients also get their own dashboard starting point to get a full overview of related issues, projects and progress.
Issue tracker, project management and wiki - perfect for agile teams
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Command line tools
Some developers love the command line. We breathe the command line.
Communicate with an existing remote installation or manage existing local installations using the included command line tools.
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LDAP, OpenID, Persona and custom authentication
You can log in to The Bug Genie using Mozilla Persona, your existing Google™ account, Wordpress™ account or other OpenID-enabled accounts.
The Bug Genie also integrates with your existing LDAP backend
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Super quick navigation
Use the jumplist navigation to quickly move from one view to another, switch projects or visit recent issues
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Email commands
With incoming email support you can reply to - and even update - issues straight from your email client.
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JSON API
The Bug Genie speaks JSON, and for many of the most used views there are JSON endpoints available. Build your own interface or client or add integrated bug reporting to your applications. -
Multiple hosted installations
The download edition supports multiple hosted installations using the same installation. This lets you share The Bug Genie user accounts across several different issue trackers even without other centralised authentication handling.
Trialing The Bug Genie as a JIRA replacement today - we're stoked with its simplicity and light weight
