Looking for softwear engineering tool

[goodmorningsky]

Hi, all.

 

I'm looking for a softwear engineering tool helping us with:

 

Project list management

To do list management with priority, current working person, checkin / check out,

Bug tracking, database, releted to todolist,

Test matrix, test cases..

 

etc.

 

It would be general tool for?

team based softwear development.

 

Could you guys suggest any tools for this purpose

[Nate Bross]

Not exactly what you are looking for, but it might be useful for somebody.

 

Magic Draw

 

I've used this and it's pretty neat for Use Case, and UML; I've heard good things about AlienBrain for source control, (similar to Visual Source Safe, from what I've heard).

 

AlienBrain

[mskeel]

CVS is a great source control tool -- combine with tourtiseCVS and you have a winning combination.

 

I just found Trac the other day which does a lot of stuff including integration with subversion if you use that (http://www.edgewall.com/trac/).

 

There are tons of bug trackers out there -- Bugzilla, Bug Genie, mantis... just do a google search. They are all kind of mediocre in my opinion.

 

The best check list ever -- Ta-da list.

 

And that's just the free stuff. If you're willing to pay money there's a ton of stuff that will probably handle the full package that you are looking for. Off the top of my head, I would check out FogBugz, but again, there's tons of stuff out there -- depending on how much money you want to spend.

[PlausiblyDamp]

Also if you have a budget for this http://www.sourgegear.com do an excellent Source Code Control system called Vault and an accompanying bug tracking product called Dragnet.

[tfowler]

While CVS has been and still is a great source control tool, I prefer SubVersion (http://subversion.tigris.org/) along with the TortoiseSVN (http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/) front-end. They are both very easy to install and use, and they are also both well maintained and supported.

 

From SubVersion's site:

 

The goal of the Subversion project is to build a version control system that is a compelling replacement for CVS in the open source community. The software is released under an Apache/BSD-style open source license.

If you are interested, Tigris.org (http://www.tigris.org/) has a bunch of other open source development tools. The only other one I've tried is Scarab (http://scarab.tigris.org/), and I really didn't like it. Of course, I used it early in its development life, so things may have changed.

 

It is great how many really good open source development tools are out there. One of these days, I really need to jump onto one of the teams and give back to the open source community. They have definitely helped me a lot.

 

Todd