The Griffon Group, L.L.C.

Tracker Central Overview
Tracker Central is a combination test case and bug tracking system for use in all phases of the software development, testing, implementation, and support process.   Tracker Central provides an organized and flexible framework for testing software applications as well as providing a component to gather any resulting 'bugs' that may be flushed out during the completion of the test cases. Other uses of the system include the tracking of new feature requests, the reporting of data setup issues for system conversions, and Year 2000 readiness testing, just to name a few.

Tracker Central Highlights
User-Definable Tables
For both the test case and bug components of Tracker Central, user definable tables allow for the custom creation and categorization of data without the need for costly and lengthy programming changes.  For example, users can define products and product sub-categories, bug urgency types, as well as test case status levels just to name a few.  Dependant upon the needs of each particular project, the user has the ability to edit the contents of the dropdown selection boxes throughout the entire application.

Linking
Every bug or observation that is entered into Tracker Central can be linked to one or more discovering test cases.  For example, if a bug or a suggestion surfaces during the execution of a particular test case, the user can immediately create a new record and link that bug to the test case that produced it.    There is a tab for every bug and test case within Tracker Central that lists the corresponding links.

Tracking
Users can track the status of bugs and test cases based upon a number of different selection criteria.  For example, a user can query to either the screen or a report all outstanding bugs with a high urgency level for an application that has been assigned to them within the last week.  For every bug, Tracker Central has an informational 'History' tab detailing all of the status changes from submission to confirmation that the bug has been properly fixed.

Reporting
A collection of standard on-line and/or hardcopy reports are available based upon a wide variety of user-definable selection criteria.  In addition, Tracker Central allows users to integrate a third party reporting tool into the system for the purposes of creating additional ad-hoc queries and reports. This includes, but is not limited to, PowerBuilder, InfoMaker, and Crystal Reports.

Technology
Tracker Central is a client/server application. The GUI portion of the application was created using PowerBuilder. Windows 95/98 and NT GUI clients are supported. The server portion of the application is a Sybase SQL Server database running on any of the Sybase supported platforms.

Sample Screens

Test Case Maintenance

Bug / New Feature / Issue Maintenance

For further information on Tracker Central, please contact The Griffon Group.