1. CandyCane
A Very Sweet Bug Tracking System for You.
2011/09/03 CakeFest 2011
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2. Who am I ?
$me = array(
‘name’ => ‘Yusuke Ando’,
‘from’ => array(‘Tokyo’,‘New York’),
‘twitter’ => ‘@yando’,
‘lang’ => array(‘PHP’, ‘Ruby’,‘JavaScript’),
‘job’ => array(‘RAKUTEN’,‘LinkShare’),
‘books’ => 3
);
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3. http://2011.phpmatsuri.net/page/what-is-php-matsuri
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4. Agenda
• Why do we need Bug Tracking System?
• What is CandyCane?
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5. Why do we need Bug Tracking System
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6. What we do.
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7. What we do.
• We write software.
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8. What we do.
• We write software.
• Sometimes, we create bugs.
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9. What we do.
• We write software.
• Sometimes, we create bugs.
• We immediately fix them if we can.
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10. What we do.
• We write software.
• Sometimes, we create bugs.
• We immediately fix them if we can.
• Sometimes, we leave them unfixed.
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11. What we do.
• We write software.
• Sometimes, we create bugs.
• We immediately fix them if we can.
• Sometimes, we leave them unfixed.
• What should we do ?
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13. “Keeping a database of bugs is one of the
hallmarks of a good software team.”
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14. “Keeping a database of bugs is one of the
hallmarks of a good software team.”
Joel Spolsky
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15. BTS Will Save Us.
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16. BTS Will Save Us.
• BTS certainly remember bug.
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17. BTS Will Save Us.
• BTS certainly remember bug.
• Nobody need to suffer with Excel crash.
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18. BTS Will Save Us.
• BTS certainly remember bug.
• Nobody need to suffer with Excel crash.
• We have to learn how to use BTS.
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19. Major 6 BTS
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20. Bugzilla (1998)
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21. Mantis (2000)
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22. Trac(2006)
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23. Redmine(2006)
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24. PivotalTracker(2008)
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25. JIRA
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26. BTS Trends
• Richer User Interface.
• Multiple projects support.
• Customizability, and plugin support.
• Agile development capability.
• SaaS (but you may need subscription.)
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27. is cute.
• Built on Ruby on Rails.
• GPL
• Flexible dashboard for admins.
• Easy to develop plugin.
• Pretty popular in Japan.
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28. Stats on Google Trends
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29. Forbidden Truth
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30. Redmine Books.
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32. Registered Users
reach 1,000 user account within 2
years. both developers and
business people have access to
Redmine.
about 2 years
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34. Practices.
• Turned off unnecessary high load features.
(Repo viewer, Documents, Attachment)
• Made custom plugin.
• Be nice for Excel peoples.
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35. Why Not Start Using
Redmine Now?
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36. Why Not Start Using
Redmine Now?
Because,You Can Use CandyCane!
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37. What is CandyCane?
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38. What is CandyCane?
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39. CandyCane
• A Bug Tracking System built on CakePHP.
• GPL
• Started in April 2009.
• v0.8
• 2nd brother of Redmine on Ruby on Rails.
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40. Redmine Family
0.8
1.1.1
1.2.1 2.2.0 0.8
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41. Beginning
• April, 2009.
• Rewrite in CakePHP, line by line.
• 8 good CakePHP developers.
• Using git to maximize development speed.
• Epic 100-hours of Hackathon.
• Coding hell.
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47. Use every trick we
know.
• Component
• Behavior
• Helper
• Routing
• Unit Testing
• Plugin, Theme
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48. CI on Jenkins
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51. if($candycane == $redmine)
{
echo ‘Oh, It is very similar :)’;
}
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52. Advantage of CC
• 2-minutes installation.
• Practical Features.
• Built on CakePHP.
-Not require port and memory.
- We know how to maintain, extend.
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53. 2-minutes installation
• Unpack the archive under your webroot.
• Access the index with a browser.
• Type in your existing database setting.
• That’s it!
• == WordPress
• Demo
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54. Practical!
• 134 actions.
• Up from 40 when we started.
• Basic issue management are available.
• Trimed verbose features.
(Repo Viewer, Documenting, Forum)
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55. Main Features
• Installer • Roadmap
• Accounts • Time Tracking
• Multi Projects • Search
• Permissions • Custom Query
• i18n • News
• Issues • Wiki
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56. Installer
• Implemented with plugin.
• Originally from Croogo.
• Should be reusable plugin.
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58. Project
• Top level category in CandyCane.
• Create project first.
• Add users as member of project.
• Configure wiki page, if you need.
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60. Tracker
• 2nd level group.
• Correspond workflow in your team.
• Built in default are Bug, Feature, Support.
• You can define different workflow for each
tracker type.
(i.e Bug must be verified by QA after
developer fix it.)
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62. Issue
• Basic element of CandyCane.
• Have many input fields.
• Store all history of changes.
• Time tracking is optional.
• You can setup costom value for each issue.
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65. Version
• Version correspond to release date.
• Must be configured, if you want to see
beautiful roadmap page.
• Can be used as itearation or sprint in agile
method.
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67. Best Practice
• Think what will you want to see.
• Leave out the fields you don’t need.
• Create your plugin if you need.
• Hand over exported data to Excel guys.
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68. ToDo
• Bug fix
• Migrate to Cake1.3 or Cake2
• Refactoring!
• Enhancement
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69. Need Your Help
https://github.com/yandod/candycane
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