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Creating a ticket in the task management system is easy. But frequently, you probably run into the situation where your tickets get “noisy” and become unreadable.
Why does this happen? Well, when many people are involved in a specific ticket, there will be bunch of assigning, back and forth communication, until the ticket is approved, [...]

Since we have moved from Basecamp for task tracking to Lighthouse our workflow has changed significantly. Our workflow improved not just because of using a new task tracking system, but also due to learning from mistakes and figuring out what works best for us. It’s something that did not happen over night. We have made numerous small improvements over time and achieved much better productivity. This article is a small insight in the practices we use.

I’ve been using Selenium for different types of automated testing for some time, and I decided to share my thoughts on the importance of organizing data and test cases when doing automated testing.
Preparing data
When you are testing existing or new features of your application, it’s very important to have adequate testing data. The more data [...]

We have been using Basecamp for bugs and features tracking for a while, and we have realized that it doesn’t work well for us. We were struggling to make it work until we realized that we needed to search for another tool, since Basecamp is not suited for agile software development. I’ll be reviewing a series of applications in the next few weeks. The first up, Pivotal Tracker.

In the quality assurrance field, the main goal is to ensure the quality and reliability of the product. Manual testing is the most common way of testing and it consumes a lot of time. However, there are techinques to shorten the time needed for manual testing by automating time-consuming tasks.

There are many tools testers use for reviewing web applications every day. In daily tasks some of the most used applications include virtual machine for testing in different enviroments and a screen capturing application for reporting bugs with screenshots. I will present you couple of free tools for Windows which I use all the time.

Scrum as a process of software development is often used in agile development environment, and no wonder that it’s so popular: it’s very easy to learn and requires little effort to start using it.

Chris recommended scrum to the team and after couple of months of experimenting and polishing the process, we are using it successfully in our virtual team. I will show you how we are using scrum.

We were using many different bug tracking systems in the past, but none of them suited our needs. Some of them were too complex, some did not have features which we needed, but mainly most of them weren’t easy to use with easy overview of tasks. Besides bug tracking system, we were using basecamp from 37signals mainly for messaging and for simple todo lists. Recently basecamp was updated with cool new features, and our team decided to try it out for project management – bug tracking too.

I will show you how we use basecamp :

I put together a small set of tips for tracking bugs, ideas, and changes when working with software projects. We’re always trying to find the right balance between organization and simplicity. If you have your own tips, please let me know and post a comment.