Table of Contents

Basic Functionality

• FogBugz in two minutes A whirlwind tour of FogBugz
• The basics of bug tracking
• Ten tips for bug tracking Ideas for successful bug tracking
• What's new in version 6.0
• Filters Finding the cases you care about
• Saved Filters
• Searching in FogBugz
• Projects and areas How to organize cases
• Capture screenshots The easiest way to report a bug
• Release notes Produce lists of new features and fixed bugs for your customers
• Versions Track the version where a bug was found
• Linking cases
• Working through a list of cases
• Finding out about changes Email notification, subscribing to a case, link colors, and searching for changed cases
• Bulk operations Do things to several cases at once
• Keyboard Shortcuts FogBugz is designed to work well without touching the mouse

Creating and maintaining documentation

• Wiki FogBugz includes a wiki for creating and maintaining documentation

Working with customers

• Handling incoming customer email Sending, receiving, tracking, and responding to customer email
• Allowing customers to enter cases Allow customers to enter cases without logging on
• Web-based discussion groups Create a community where customers can ask questions, discuss your product, help each other out, and get help from your staff
• BugzScout Getting bug reports from the field

Project management and schedules

• Keeping on schedule Sophisticated scheduling features keep your projects on track
• Evidence-Based Scheduling The EBS algorithm provides radically better schedules than any other method
• Releases Each project can have releases indicating important milestones (alpha, beta, etc.)
• Priorities Assign priorities 1 through 7
• How to estimate software tasks The art of coming up with accurate estimates
• Entering estimates in FogBugz
• Keeping FogBugz informed about what you're working on
• Using the Estimate History report See how good a given developer is at estimating features
• Project Reports Shows the probability that you will be finished with all the features for a given release by any given date
• Working schedules Tell FogBugz when you're going to be at work
• Setting due dates

Getting the most out of FogBugz

• RSS feeds
• Source Control Integration
• Types of FogBugz users The difference between normal, administrator, virtual, and community users
• Community users
• Clients and Departments
• Permissions Restrict users' access to certain parts of FogBugz
• Site settings Global FogBugz options
• API Interact with FogBugz programatically

Setting up FogBugz on your own server

Learn about setting up the FogBugz server on:

• Windows
• Unix (and Linux)
• Macintosh OS X

Some other setup tasks you might want to do:

• Importing cases from another bug tracker
• Enabling HTTP Compression

FogBugz On Demand

• Your Account Managing your FogBugz on Demand account
• Billing FAQ

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