Mantis Tutorial
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- Mantis - Add Custom Fields
- Mantis - Summary
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- Mantis - Issue History
- Mantis - Move an Issue
- Mantis - Issues Relationships
- Mantis - Change Status
- Mantis - Advanced Features
- Mantis - Clone an Issue
- Mantis - Edit Issues
- Mantis - View Issues
- Mantis - Import Issues
- Mantis - Report an Issue
- Mantis - Issue Lifecycle
- Mantis - Versions
- Mantis - Manage Categories
- Mantis - Project Management
- Mantis - My View
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- Mantis - Trial Setup
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Mantis - Introduction
Mantis - Introduction
Mantis Bug Tracker is an open source web-based apppcation tool. It is used for Bug Tracking throughout Defect Lifecycle. Along with bug tracking, Mantis supports Release Features to manage various releases of a project or a software.
Mantis is also known as MantisBT, which stands for Mantis Bug Tracker. The name and logo of Mantis refers to Mantidae family of insects. In software, it is referred to as a bug.
Mantis provides Demo, Download (to set up your own Mantis) and Hosting version of the tool. It supports various features for Issue Tracking and pfe cycle along with Release Management.
The development of Mantis started in 2000 by Kenzaburo Ito. Later in 2002, other team members (Jeroen Latour, Victor Boctor and Jupan Fitzell) joined. The basic version 1.0.0 of Mantis was released in February 2006.
In 2012, GitHub became the official repository for the Mantis project source code.
License and Free Trial
It is an open source software. License is not required to use its basic version.
It provides Demo and Hosting Version for free trails.
It supports Download feature to set up your own Mantis software. The user can sign up using email ID.
Mantis has different price quotes based on added features that can be seen at
Usage
To track all bugs/issue throughout Defect pfecycle.
To manage at Release level as well.
Supports Analytic and Reporting features.
Supports plug-in with other softwares and IDE to make it more strong and effective.
Specifications
| Sr.No. | Specification & Description |
|---|---|
| 1 | Apppcation Copyright The copyright is taken by MANTIS System Limited Company (“MANTIS SYSTEM”) License is taken under GNU General Pubpc License Version 2 |
| 2 | Tool Scope It can be used as a Bug Tracking System |
| 3 | Stable Release 2.1.0 Onwards. Latest release is 2.5.1 |
| 4 | Developed Language PHP as a coding language and SQL for database Tool supports 49 languages |
| 5 | Operating System Cross Platforms ( Platform Independent software) |
| 6 | System Requirements Web Server - Mantis is mainly tested with Microsoft IIS and Apache PHP - Mandatory extensions are mysqp, pgsql, oci8, sqlsrv, mbstring Database - MySQL, PostgreSQL |
| 7 | Cpent Requirements Firefox 45 and above IE 10 and above Chrome/Safari/Opera |
| 8 | User Interface Available API Desktop GUI Mobile UI |