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While working at Ezmo we have until now had no real setup with project management tools or anything like that. This has been important as it has enabled us to focus upon communicating and actually getting work done.
When branching out into multiple clients on different platforms the time was right for using tools for organizing tasks and tracking issues, tasks and improvements. Early on in the company history we used JIRA and Confluence. Two really great tools which are right for enterprise projects and for large teams or companies having to maintain a lot of different projects. A startup like Ezmo requires easy and simple tools in order to make our team more efficient. We chose Trac as our tool as it is a wiki, bug tracker, task manager and source code repository viewer. The integrated tools and the number of different plugins available made it the obvious choice for us.
While looking around for a bug tracker / task management tool I happened to come across an Eclipse project, which was new tro me, called Mylyn. It’s a task management perspective for Eclipse which enables you to manage your tasks / bugs in your coding environment. This is really cool as it enables you to keep everything you need to work inside the tool you would use to finish the assignments. We have just started looking at this way of working, but I think it will work really well for our very agile development team.
We will look at more ways of automating bug detection for our product in combination with our new tool suite. I think this is one of our biggest areas of improvement right now when it comes to quality assurance.
Installing Mylyn in Flex Builder requires a slight side step from just grabbing it from the Eclipse Update site. In order to retrieve source code from Subversion and use Mylyn you need some of the Java development tools. I have opted to use the Subversive plug-in for Subversion, you may have other preferences but that is up to you. Heres a quick step by step on installing:
http://download.eclipse.org/technology/subversive/0.7/update-site/
http://www.polarion.org/projects/subversive/download/eclipse/2.0/update-site/
You should now be ready to enjoy Mylyn in Flex Builder
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Thanks for the info.
Correct and clean step by step help for installing.
Keep it up!
March 10th, 2009 at 12:05 pm