FogBugz is a pretty clean and simple bug tracking software that is pretty well integrated in Eclipse. Not perfect since it is reliant upon some form of live connection, but this is a pretty good solution for something.
I have created an evaluation account with FogBugz and can create a collection of incidents, WIKIs and documentation. The code is hosted on their servers, and everything is presented through a rich web page GUI. There is more potential through the availability of a FogBugz GUI, and this could be used to solve many of my requirements of a platform independent off-line bug reporting and analysis environment.
One issue that is worth considering is that FogBugz is not free; it is a commercial solution costing $25 per user per month. For a small company such as Mnemosyne BioSciences this is acceptable, but for academic environments this becomes complicated…
This is certainly something that I intend to evaluate more fully, and I will report back on my experiences as I reach the end of the evaluation period and make the decision as to whether the FogBugz solution could provide an answer for the problem of tracking software and development and bugs within a bioinformatics data analysis environment project.
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