Increasing Software Engineering Efficiency Through Defect Tracking Integration

The creation of a collaboration system to facilitate updates to the defect tracking system, by extracting the defects status and resolution from the software engineers´ code comments, will eliminate duplicated software engineer workload and inaccurate updates to the defect tracking system that result in lost or inaccurate metrics. This collaboration system will result in significantly improved productivity, traceability, and process compliance. Typically software quality assurance specialists will test the software and log defects within a defect tracking system. Software engineers will then correct the defect in the Integrated Development Environment (IDE), and update the status of the defect in the defect tracking system. Software engineers are required to enter the same information in the code comments, version control, and defect tracking system causing wasted software engineer time and lost opportunities to effectively capture historical metrics.