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== Bugzilla == | == Bugzilla == | ||
=== The Good === | === The Good === | ||
* The bug dependency feature seems very useful. Scrum recognizes that a product cannot be fully defined from the start. As a result, Scrum encourages | * The bug dependency feature seems very useful. Scrum recognizes that a product cannot be fully defined from the start. As a result, Scrum encourages teams to write basic descriptions of distant requirements and add specific details as they become apparent. The bug dependency tool may allow for this. | ||
** For example, a team building a website might create a user story for login early in the project. Without much information, this story would be fairly high-level, for example " | ** For example, a team building a website might create a user story for user login early in the project. Without much information, this story would be fairly high-level, for example "A user should be able to log into the site." Later, the team could add specific details as additional stories -- "A users should be able to log into the site with his email addresses", "The user should be able to find the 'Login' link in the top-right corner of the site", etc. These stories could depend on the first. | ||
* The Songbird team has written a tool | * The Songbird team has written a tool which generates reports from Bugzilla tickets. The tool, called [http://blog.songbirdnest.com/2008/12/15/songbird-path-to-agility-part-iii/# SDPBOT], is released under an open-source license. | ||
=== The Bad === | === The Bad === | ||
* The authors of SDPBOT note that they "made no attempt to make it generic" and that people using the software should "expect to do some work to customize it" for their needs. | * The authors of SDPBOT note that they "made no attempt to make it generic" and that people using the software should "expect to do some work to customize it" for their needs. | ||
* SDPBOT does not generate burndown charts from Bugzilla data, and there does not seem to be any other tool which does generate burndown charts. | * SDPBOT does not generate burndown charts from Bugzilla data, and there does not seem to be any other tool which does generate burndown charts. | ||