Painless bug forms.
Posted on 30.10.2010 10:34 pm
While working on any sized project, a bug tracking method of some sorts is essential.
When you are flying solo, nothing beats a simple text editor but when you start adding people, it quickly becomes a mess to deal with.
So there are a lot of tools out there to manage and track bugs, many boast a pretty large feature set but few try to focus on simplicity.
I've also heard stories that you should not roll your own system. Those points are very valid. So I installed a simple little tracker that seemed to match the features I wanted (and that I've used before).
And it works just fine.
But.
There were way to many instances from me and the other developer where we forgot or didn't feel like adding a bug. We'll just keep it in our head we'd say. It's such a small project etc etc, the path of least resistance.
That mentality has bit us in the ass a few times and I felt I could do something about it from a technical standpoint.
So we sat down and pondered, why weren't we adding bugs. It turns out that adding a new bug is a 6 step process. Go to the site, log in, click add new task, fill in the required summary, fill in the required details, fill out the various properties and click add.
This was the hurdle.
So what we wanted was the simplest way we could find to add a new bug. We could deal with the sorting after (if needed)
We thought of a command line tool, a simple gui tool and then thought what if we could add bugs via the address bar.
So I thought. What if we treated the add new bug form like the custom search engine in chrome.
So I threw together a little tool that accepted a GET variable from the search and threw it into a database, then redirected you to another page where you could view a list of what you've entered.
So I could write in chrome.
bug Feature X crashes if you do Y and Z at the same time.
Hit enter (I'd get a HTTP auth window) hit enter again (since I have the user/pass saved) and I'd be viewing the bug list with the item added.
Currently it's a custom tool thrown together in 2-3 hours total (in an MVC pattern) and there is nothing stopping us from using the same method on an existing bug tracking system when we move to it (which we most likely will), but currently this suffices and I'm pretty happy with the result.
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