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Bug tracking software

Using bug tracking software.

As mentioned in the previous article, email is an insufficent way too manage bugs. That's why it's recommended to use specialised bug tracking software.

I will show you how to setup and use mantis bug tracker.

Step 1:

Download mantis from (site) and upload too your website.

Step 2:

Create a database ahead of time.

Step 3:

You need to populate the database, this is very easy if you have access to phpmyadmin, first select the mantis database, then either find the populate_sql.sql file in the /sql folder or just copy and paste all of what's contained in that file into the execute sql queries field.

Step 4:

Find the config_defaults_inc.php file and edit theese sections

# --- database variables ---------

# set these values to match your setup

# hostname should be either a hostname or connection string to supply to adodb. # For example, if you would like to connect to a mysql server on the local machine, # set hostname to 'localhost', and db_type to 'mysql'. # If you need to supply a port to connect to, set hostname as 'localhost:3306'. $g_hostname = 'localhost'; $g_db_username = 'username'; $g_db_password = 'password'; $g_database_name = 'databasename'; $g_db_type = 'mysql';

To match your prior created databse.

Step 5:

Navigate your webbrowser to the mantis directory and login with the default provided username and password that is supplied with the installation.

Username: administrator Password: root

Step 6:

Learn how to use the bug tracking software, it's fairly straight forward. You need to create a project first before you can do anything with it.