Project-, Requirements, Task-, Change-, Release & Test Management

• Track tasks, bugs, requirements, feature- and change requests, tests or any types of issues
• Highly customizable standard and custom issue fields
• Highly configurable workflows
• Support for Waterfall, iterative, Scrum, Kanban, hybrid and custom methodologies ^{New in 5.5}
• Issue hierarchies (subtasks in arbitrary depth)
• Calculated fields: values auto-computed by customizable formula
• Bi-directional field dependencies: aggregation and distribution rules
• Associations to other issues, wiki pages, documents and source code
• Derive tasks from requirements, tests from change requests, and so on ^{New in 5.5}
• Full traceability and audit trail
• Escalation management
• Cut, copy, paste, duplicate and move issues between trackers and projects
• Version progress report ^{New in 5.5}
• Quick release notes generated from templates ^{New in 5.5}
• Comments
• File attachments
• Fast mass editing
• Fine-grained group- and role-based access permissions
• Email notifications

Document Management

• Content versioning
• Baselining: inexpensive snapshots of documents ^{New in 5.5}
• Approval workflows on document content
• Access- and audit trail
• Full text search on MS-Word, RTF, PDF, HTML, Wiki and text documents
• Extensible document metadata
• WebDAV access
• Fine-grained group- and role-based access permissions (at directory level)
• Relocatable storage
• Optional locking
• Comments
• File attachments
• Email notifications

Integrated Wiki – Knowledge Management

• Wiki page versioning
• Wiki page hierarchies of arbitrary depth
• Baselining: inexpensive snapshots of wiki pages ^{New in 5.5}
• Approval workflows on wiki content
• Optional locking
• Rich set of built-in plugins: charts, reports, MindMap, UML, Excel, and a lot more
• Wiki editing in MS Word: fast adoption
• Extensible through custom wiki plugins
• Full text search for page content, comments and attachments
• Comments
• File attachments
• Fine-grained group- and role-based access permissions
• PDF exports
• Email notifications

Full Text Search

• Search for any content: user accounts, projects, wiki pages, documents, issues, comments, file attachments, forum posts, builds, source files and -symbols, and SCM commit messages
• Indexes all standard document formats including MS-Word, RTF, PDF, HTML, Wiki and text documents
• Flexible search scope: search in every, multiple or a single project
• Fuzzy searches

Version Control Systems: Centralized and Distributed

• Centralized repositories with Subversion, CVS, Rational Synergy (formerly Telelogic Synergy) and Serena PVCS
• Distributed repositories with Git and Mercurial
• Browse source code files
• Browse file histories
• File diffs on the web: unidiff and side-by-side
• Search for source files and change sets
• Extensible via a public API to support custom version control systems
• Fine-grained unified group- and role-based access permissions for all VCS
• Email notifications with colored diffs

Dashboards – Increased Project Awareness

• Any number of custom dashboards for executives, managers, tech leads, developers and testers ^{New in 5.5}
• Flexible scope: aggregate information from multiple projects, or narrow the view to a single project or even to a single person ^{New in 5.5}
• Leverages the flexibility and full potential of wikis
• Real time charts ^{New in 5.5}
• Activity streams ^{New in 5.5}
• Gantt charts

Build Server – Continuous Integration

• Support for Ant and Hudson and Maven
• Scheduleable periodic builds
• Builds triggered by VCS commits (with “quite period”)
• Build log history
• Publish build artifacts to the Document Manager or to the Forums
• First class support for source code analysis and statistic builds

Source Code Quality Assurange: Statistics and Metrics

• Source code complexity- and quality analysis
• Coding standards adherence check
• Similarity analysis and copy-paste detection
• Coding violation detection
• Design analysis
• Trends for all metrics
• Source code comprehension: symbol and cross reference browsing
• Built-in support for Java and C/C++, extensible for any programming language