YouTrack 6.5 Tracks Bugs Better

Are you building bug and issue tracking into your software development project? If not, you could be setting yourself up for headaches later on if the issues pile up and you have no process in place to document, reproduce, triage, and manage them. Fortunately, the Bitnami YouTrack stack can be deployed in just a few clicks to keep those bugs at bay! YouTrack is a comprehensive, browser-based bug and issue management system that just added some interesting new features with the release of its version 6.5.

Whether you work alone or manage a large development team, YouTrack can simplify your life thanks to its flexible integrations with other development and QA applications and its ability to scale up or down based on your needs.

A couple of weeks ago we wrote about how to increase collaboration between your QA and development teams and reduce revisions by integrating YouTrack with TestLink. Now with the version 6.5 update, released today in Bitnami, YouTrack adds seamless integration with your favorite development and revision control tools like GitLab and Bitbucket, a redesigned administration UI, one-click import of issues from Jira, and other helpful upgrades.

Key features and enhancements:

• JetBrains’ teamware integration
• Project Wizard
• Enhanced TeamCity integration
• Dashboard improvements: query assistance, saved searches and tag filters
• Updated workflow
• Improved iMailbox integration
• Bug-fix versions included in the license
• Mention @username notifications

New to Bitnami? You will be pleased to know that the Bitnami YouTrack stack comes with a free license for up to 10 users and can be deployed in the cloud, as a Virtual Machine, or natively with just a few clicks. You can see how easy it is by launching a one-hour YouTrack demo in the cloud, absolutely free!

If you are an existing YouTrack user and would like to find out how to upgrade to 6.5, see our wiki page here for easy-to-follow instructions.

‘Take 5’ with topLog CEO Ozge Yeloglu

Ozge Yeloglu is the cofounder and CEO of topLog, a predictive data analysis tool for DevOps teams. The idea for topLog was inspired by her team’s experience as a graduate student doing research in computer science. When an IT system or application crashed, it often took teams hours to dig through massive amounts of log files to uncover the source of the problem. They knew there had to be a better way.

We caught up with Ozge to learn more about her journey as a founder, and her aspirations and future goals for topLog.

What is the most rewarding part of running your own business?

Controlled chaos. Every day is chaotic in a start up but I feel like I have the power to control it. Even though that is not true many days, even the idea of “I have the power to control it” makes a control freak like me feel better.

What advice would you give yourself before founding topLog?

Start small. Because our technology is based on PhD research, we had many features of our product ready when we started. However, it was very challenging to build them all at once in an early stage product. I would start with one main feature and get users based on that and keep adding more features on top of it. Sounds very obvious when I say it now, it wasn’t then.

What is the biggest hurdle you have faced or are still facing?

Showing the value of our technology to our users. We were three PhD level Data Scientists when we started topLog. I put a very ugly (looked cool then) UI together which would make sense to any data scientist but not to a DevOps engineer. I realized that after a few meetings with potential users and seeing their confused faces. We now have a brilliant UI/UX developer working with us but simplifying the UI while presenting all the information to the user is a continuous challenge.

What are key milestones that must be achieved in the next 6-12 months?

Creating more partnerships. Our first partnership, which happens to be with Bitnami, has proved to us the importance of teaming up with others in our market. It increases visibility, brings us necessary users to fine-tune our product while we scale, and open ourselves up to new opportunities as well as complimenting others’ products, ultimately bringing the end users a more complete, all-in-one solution.

If you could be any superhero, which one could you be?

Iron man. I’m too realistic to believe in magical superheroes and I love technology.

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