I don’t use FogBugz for bug tracking, so I read Painless Project Management with FogBugz by Mike Gunderloy more out of curiosity than real need. Since I have little experience with formal bug-tracking systems (I know, shame on me), I found it interesting to read about the various features of this particular bug-tracking system and some of the philosophy behind those features. If you are considering purchasing FogBugz, or are learning how to use it, this book is sure to be useful to you.

(I did end up with one particularly practical nugget of information, though. We’re currently using Visual SourceSafe for source control, and I wondered how a bug-tracking system could easily integrate with VSS – it would need to know which files were most recently checked in, but I know that the History feature of VSS is quite slow. As it turns out, there’s a useful Journal feature that’s available through the Options dialog of the VSS Administrator. It records every change to the database to a log file, which could come in handy for any tools I might write to monitor the database.)