Making software

management tools work

for youJohn Mertic ( @jmertic )Partner and Community Developer Liaison at SugarCRM

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Disclaimer: There are no silver

bullets

“For every complex

problem, there is a solution

that is simple, neat, and

wrong.”

– H. L. Mencken

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Lots of Choices

Where do you begin?

“A determined soul will do

more with a rusty monkey

wrench than a loafer will

accomplish with all the

tools in a machine shop.”

- Robert Hughes

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Don’t proceed without a process

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Toolbox of Software Project Management

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What kinds of tools should be in the toolbox

Version Control

Task Management

Documentation

Testing

Version Control

Keeps track of your codebase

Enables parallel development

What’s you choices Backup files manually ( not a real choice ) CVS Subversion (SVN) Git

Evolution of Version Control

Task Management

Biggest problem for teams in keeping organized

Good task management enables developers and managers to plan

Should support the development methodology you are using

Task Management Tool MatrixBug Trackers

Project Management

web2Project

Redmine

JIRA ( proprietary )

FogBugz ( proprietary )

Bugzilla

Mantis

Github Bug Tracker

Trac

Launchpad

Google Docs / Excel

Source: http://ju-n.net/6-scrum-project-management-tools

Documentation

User facing documentation AND developer documentation

Documentation by nature is painful to write, so make it as much as a part of the development process as possible

Documentation MatrixUsers

Wiki

Inline Help

Docbook

Sphinx

Developers

Wiki

PHPDoc

Doxygen

Testing

Automated Unit Functional or Acceptance Performance

Manual Usability Consistency

The Do’s of Testing Management

DO make automated tests automated with continuous integration

Hudson / Jenkins phpUnderControl / CruiseControl

DO develop a testing strategy that is integrated with build strategy

DO analyze testing coverage But don’t believe automated code coverage

metrics

Testing Tools MatrixUnit Testing

PHPUnit

Whatever JavaScript unit testing framework you like - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unit_testing_frameworks#Javascript

Functional Testing

Selenium

Watir

SODA - https://github.com/sugarcrm/SODA

Testing Tools Matrix (cont)Performance

Testing

ApacheBench

Jmeter MeterMaid -

https://github.com/sugarcrm/MeterMaid

How to find the tools that can work for you

Evaluate where you are now

Find the problems you have in your current tools

Try out different tools that address the problems you are having

Pick a tool and implement it

Repeat

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