codeBeamer Features
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
- 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
- Full traceability and audit trail
- Escalation management
- Cut, copy, paste, duplicate and move issues between trackers and projects
- Version progress report
- Quick release notes generated from templates
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Flexible scope: aggregate information from multiple projects, or narrow the view to a single project or even to a single person
- Leverages the flexibility and full potential of wikis
- Real time charts
- Activity streams
- 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
