Defect Tracking Procedure

 

Lucky Strike Software team members will use the tool provided on the Teamatic website to track their defects.  Instructions for using Teamatic are divided into the following cases:

 

  I.   Setting Yourself Up As An User

  II.   Creating New Cases (Bugs)

 III.   Viewing The Cases For A Project

 IV.   Creating new projects 

  V.   Creating new releases  

 VI.   Assigning users to the projects                                                                                   

VII.   Creating a Company-wide Discussion

 

Report all defects by following case 2.  Make sure you fill in all of the text fields.

Most importantly, you must provide an accurate description of the "bug."

 

I. Logging on:

1.  Go to the website, www.teamatic.com

 

b.  Enter the user name – Lucky, and the company name - Strike, then enter the password (the password is the same as the one used for the team email account) then sign in

 

II. Setting yourself up as an user:
1) Login.

2) Click on the "Administration" tab. This will bring you to the Company Info page.

3) From the area below the tab, choose "User Administration". You will see a list of all users in our company.

4) Click on the "New User" link on the upper left corner of the page to add a new user to the company.

5) Follow the instructions on the "New User" page to create a Teamatic user.

 

III. Creating New Cases
1) You can create new cases ( bugs ) against a particular project in a variety of ways.

2) From the "Home" page, you can create a new case by selecting a project from the "Create a new Case" section on the left hand side.

3) From the "Project Properties" page, you can create a new case by clicking on the "New" link in the "Most Recent Cases" section.

4) Ensure that the "Current Project" is set, click on the "Case" tab and choose "New".

 

IV. Viewing the Cases for a project
1) From the "Projects" section in the "Home" page, you can click on the "Me", "Open" or "All" links.

2) The "Me" link will display a list of cases assigned to you.

3) The "Open" link will display a list of cases that are currently open for that project.4) The "All" link will display all cases for that project.

5) Alternatively, you can click on the "View Cases" link on the "Project Properties" page.

6) Once you are in the case list, you can sort the cases by clicking on the headers.

7) You are also presented with a list of pre-defined queries on the menu bar to the top.
8) If you click on "Show... Custom", you can do ad-hoc queries on the logged cases. Simply specify your search criteria and click "Search

 

 

V. Creating New Projects                                                                                            1) Login.

2) Click on the "Projects [New]" link on the upper left corner of the main page ( To go to the main page, click on the "Home" tab ). This will bring you into the "New Project" page.

 

VI. Creating New Releases
1) After creating a new Project, you will need to create releases for the project.

2) A project must have at least one release before you can log cases against it.

3) After saving a new Project, you will be brought to the "Project Properties" page ( Another way to navigate to the Project Properties page is by setting the current project on the upper right hand corner ). Click on the "Releases [New]" link in the upper right hand corner of the Release section to create a new release.

4) Alternatively, if you are in the "Home" page, you can click on any project to go to the respective Project Properties page and create new releases there.

 

VII. Assigning Users To The Projects
1) Teamatic has implemented a security feature to allow you to secure projects.

2) When a project is first created, the person who created the project will be assigned the Project Manager Role. At this time, no other user (except Company Administrators and the Project Manager) will have access to this project.

3) In order for other Teamatic users to be able to view/access a particular project, they have to be assigned a role in that project. Currently, the available roles are "Project Manager" and "Project User".

4) As a "Project Manager", you will be allowed to assign or revoke roles from users for that project. You will also be allowed to create/freeze a release, log cases, etc.

5) As a "Project User", you will be allowed to create/update/view cases for a particular project.

6) As a "Project Read-only User", you will only be allowed to view cases for a particular project.

7) To maintain user roles, click on the "Project" tab and choose "User Management". You can assign/revoke roles from a user by highlighting the user and clicking on the respective arrow key.

8) Once you are finished assigning users to the projects, you can start logging cases!

 

VIII. Creating a Company-wide Discussion
1) One of the coolest features in Teamatic is the ability to create a company-wide discussion.

2) Use the discussion feature to organize company-wide activities, post questions to colleagues, send out corporate-wide messages, etc. It's up to your imagination!

3) Every Teamatic user can view, create, or reply to a discussion.

4) You can create a new discussion by clicking on the "New" link in the "Most Recent Discussion" section in the "Home" page.

5) To see other messages in a particular discussion thread, click on the "More" link at the bottom of a particular discussion.

6) To reply to a message in a particular discussion thread, click on the "Reply" link at the bottom of a particular discussion.

7) To view all discussion threads, click on the "All" link in the "Most Recent Discussion" section in the "Home" page.