Software Planner 6.05 Features Configurable Email Alerts

Pragmatic Software Company announced new enhancements to Software Planner version 6.05 (http://www.SoftwarePlanner.com), the latest version of a customizable web solution to track software defects and manage the software development life cycle. The latest version of Software Planner greatly improves collaboration between team members by providing clients with the ability to trigger email alerts based on rules.

(PRWEB) June 4, 2005

Pragmatic Software Company announced new enhancements to Software Planner version 6.05 (http://www.SoftwarePlanner.com), the latest version of a customizable web solution to track software defects and manage the software development life cycle.

"For over 6 years, Software Planner has aided companies in managing all phases of the software lifecycle, including requirements management, defect tracking, test case management, file sharing, and project and team management", said Steve Miller, President of Pragmatic Software. "The new features of the software are fueled by client suggestions, as they enter these suggestions into our electronic Suggestion Box. A common suggestion was to provide customizable email alerts, where email alerts can be triggered upon specific rules.", adds Miller.

Customizable Email Alerts

The latest version of Software Planner greatly improves collaboration between team members by providing clients with the ability to trigger email alerts based on rules. For example, quality assurance (QA) team members may want to receive an email when a bug (or defect) is changed to a resolved status. By automatically receiving an email, the QA team knows as things are resolved without the programming needing to call them to let them know. The customizable email alerts allow clients to define their own custom alerts, based on a variety of rules. Alerts can be set when items are updated, or when they are updated to specific values. Alerts are also available when items are assigned to a specific person or sent to the owner of the item when someone makes changes to items they own.

Defect and Test Case Linkage

Software Planner allows QA teams to create test cases. If a test case fails, a defect can now be automatically generated (if desired), saving the QA staff time needed to manually create the defect. All pertinent information is automatically entered, and a linkage is established between the defect created and the test case that failed. This allows the programming team to review the original test case that identified the defect.

Defect Security

Prior to version 6.05, security administrators could specify that a security group did not have the rights to close and assign defects. With the new release, this is separated, so that a security administrator can separately define whether a user group has rights to close defects -or- whether a group of users has rights to assign defects.

Software Planner is offered as a monthly subscription starting at $ 60 per month (2 concurrent users), as well as a scalable enterprise solution that can handle thousands of simultaneous users and can be branded and tailored to exact client needs.

Founded in 1992, Pragmatic Software Company, Inc. based in Denver, Colorado is an Internet software company that provides software products, web-based professional solutions and software consulting services. For more information on Pragmatic Software, go to http://www.PragmaticSW.com or contact Lynn Cranford at PR@PragmaticSW.com or (800) 773-7785. For more information on Software Planner, visit http://www.SoftwarePlanner.com.

To see an on-line copy of this press release, navigate to http://www.PragmaticSW.com/Press Releases/PressRelease-0053.htm.

Contact:

Lynn Cranford at

PR@PragmaticSW.com

800-773-7785

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