This book provides a thorough look at the tools available within Redmine to facilitate the development of plugins and extensions. Full of tips and tricks, a recurring case study is also used to help guide you through the various content area extensions and plugin helpers and to provide context and real-world examples of the concepts being covered. This book is intended for those who want to build custom functionality into the Redmine project management platform. If you're already comfortable with Ruby, Rails, and Redmine, but you aren't quite sure what to do next, this book will walk you through the basics of getting a plugin written and integrated into various key areas of Redmine.

Over 80 hands-on recipes to improve your skills in project management, team management, process improvement, and Redmine administration About This Book Efficiently install and customize Redmine for your own infrastructure, whether that be Microsoft or open source Manage multiple projects with multiple teams across the globe in a standardized and effective way Customize Redmine to fit your organisation's specific and unique needs Who This Book Is For This book is for those who working in management or administrator positions who are already using Redmine or are willing to start using it for project management, tracking, collaboration, or process management. Additionally, individual developers or teams can benefit from recipes related to code repositories, bug tracking, and software project management. What You Will Learn Make Redmine run on Microsoft SQL Server with IIS Enjoy the benefits of updating the code on a real-time basis and maintaining consistency Manage multiple projects and teams simultaneously Leverage Redmine features to enhance team's performance Use Redmine for SCRUM and Agile methodologies Deploy Redmine for Service Desk Customize the user experience by manually tracking the ongoing projects Extend Redmine through various plugins In Detail In a variety of online project management tools, Redmine markets itself as offering flexibility. Choosing the right management tool can mean the difference between the success and failure of a project. Flexible project management tools bend themselves to fit your needs, whether that's communication regarding a simple project, or collaboration, or more complex project methodology such as SCRUM, or an issue-code relationship, or the need of different methodology for your project. Whether you are project manager or system administrator, this book provides valuable recipes to get the best possible performance out of your team, organization, infrastructure, and Redmine itself. Through a series of carefully crafted recipes covering the nitty-gritty of Redmine, you'll be guided through the installation of Redmine, as well as how to fine-tune and customize your Redmine installation. Finally, we walk you through integrating Redmine with other softwares and databases like Tortoise SVN and Visual Studio and troubleshooting Redmine. Style and approach This book follows a step-by-step recipe-based approach. Detailed prerequisites make each recipe easy to follow and apply in practice in any kind of live environment.

Summary SonarQube in Action shows developers how to use the SonarQube platform to help them continuously improve their source code. The book presents SonarQube's core Seven Axes of Quality: design/architecture, duplications, comments, unit tests, complexity, potential bugs, and coding rules. You'll find simple, easy-to-follow discussion and examples as you learn to integrate SonarQube into your development process. About the Technology SonarQube is a powerful open source tool for continuous inspection, a process that makes code quality analysis and reporting an integral part of the development lifecycle. Its unique dashboards, rule-based defect analysis, and tight build integration result in improved code quality without disruption to developer workflow. It supports many languages, including Java, C, C++, C#, PHP, and JavaScript. About the Book SonarQube in Action teaches you how to effectively use SonarQube following the continuous inspection model. This practical book systematically explores SonarQube's core Seven Axes of Quality (design, duplications, comments, unit tests, complexity, potential bugs, and coding rules). With well-chosen examples, it helps you learn to use SonarQube's review functionality and IDE integration to implement continuous inspection best practices in your own quality management process. The book's Java-based examples translate easily to other development languages. No prior experience with SonarQube or continuous delivery practice is assumed Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. What's Inside Gather meaningful quality metrics Integrate with Ant, Maven, and Jenkins Write your own plugins Master the art of continuous inspection About the Authors Ann Campbellb and Patroklos Papapetrou are experienced developers and team leaders. Both actively contribute to the SonarQube community. Table of Contents PART 1 WHAT THE NUMBERS ARE TELLING YOU An introduction to SonarQube Issues and coding standards Ensuring that your code is doing things right Working with duplicate code Optimizing source code documentation Keeping your source code files elegant Improving your application design PART 2 SETTLING IN WITH SONARQUBE Planning a strategy and expanding your insight Continuous Inspection with SonarQube Letting SonarQube drive code reviews IDE integration PART 3 ADMINISTERING AND EXTENDING Security: users, groups, and roles Rule profile administration Making SonarQube fit your needs Managing your projects Writing your own plugins

An expert's guide to open source project management with RedmineAbout This Book*Learn Redmine through the basic topics to the mastering ones*Customize Redmine without breaking upgrade compatibility*Become an expert of Redmine after having read this comprehensive guide with tips, tricks and best practices.Who This Book Is ForThis book is best suited for project managers and Redmine administrators who have working knowledge of Redmine and who now want to get advanced practical knowledge to manage and monitor projects effectively and efficiently.What You Will Learn*Forget about troubles with installing and configuring Redmine*Feel at ease with using Redmine wiki syntax*Get familiar with the permissions system and issue life cycle in Redmine*Use Redmine for issue tracking, project hosting, project management, and time tracking*Find and choose plugins, and get familiar with some of the most useful Redmine pluginsIn DetailRedmine is not only one of the popular open source project management applications but also one of the best project hosting and issue tracking solutions.This book is an update of our previous successful edition, Mastering Redmine. This book is a comprehensive guide that will give you a detailed practical understanding on how to effectively manage, monitor and administer complex projects using Redmine.You will get familiar with the concept of Issue Tracking and will get to know why and what makes Redmine one of the best issue trackers. Another main part of Redmine functionality, which is Managing projects shows why this is one of the best applications for project hosting. Furthermore, you will learn more about Redmine rich text formatting syntax, access control and workflow and time Tracking. Towards the end, you will unleash the power of custom fields and guides to show how to customize Redmine without breaking upgrade compatibility.By the end of the book, you will have a deep practical understanding on how to effectively monitor and manage large scale and complex projects using Redmine.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination, SPICE 2017, held in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, in October 2017. The 34 full papers presented together with 4 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 65 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: SPI in agile approaches; SPI in small settings; SPI and assessment; SPI and models; SPI and functional safety; SPI in various settings; SPI and gamification; SPI case studies; strategic and knowledge issues in SPI; education issues in SPI.

A step-by-step tutorial packed with practical examples that cover the different features of Redmine. This book will be especially useful for project managers but it's also intended for any other Redmine users, including developers, and any other industry besides software development.

There are many excellent R resources for visualization, data science, and package development. Hundreds of scattered vignettes, web pages, and forums explain how to use R in particular domains. But little has been written on how to simply make R work effectively—until now. This hands-on book teaches novices and experienced R users how to write efficient R code. Drawing on years of experience teaching R courses, authors Colin Gillespie and Robin Lovelace provide practical advice on a range of topics—from optimizing the set-up of RStudio to leveraging C++—that make this book a useful addition to any R user’s bookshelf. Academics, business users, and programmers from a wide range of backgrounds stand to benefit from the guidance in Efficient R Programming. Get advice for setting up an R programming environment Explore general programming concepts and R coding techniques Understand the ingredients of an efficient R workflow Learn how to efficiently read and write data in R Dive into data carpentry—the vital skill for cleaning raw data Optimize your code with profiling, standard tricks, and other methods Determine your hardware capabilities for handling R computation Maximize the benefits of collaborative R programming Accelerate your transition from R hacker to R programmer