Software Engineering Component Repository Tool

I'm working as a software engineer for a company. We are 开发者_C百科going to apply some software engineering standards in our development process. We need a tool which provides a repository for our peripheral products (functions, classes, libraries, ...) which is created during software development process for later use. The tool should provide some functionalities (e.g Name of the component, it's functionality, withing which projects it is used?, author, publication date, list of known bugs, user rating, comment, ...) and it's better to have a web-based interface. Does anybody know such a software?

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You should check out FogBugz. Its a great project management tool which has recently released Kiln which is source control you can integrate with your projects.

A cheaper alternative is to look at something like XP-Dev.

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In my experience, such a tool doesn't exist because the problem is solved differently. Companies typically use component frameworks, whether their own or 3rd party, and develop new components that conform to the component standard from their framework.

Each project then depends on the framework rather than on specific versions of specific components. This also resolves interdependencies and all related version compatibility issues.

Component framework is typically documented somewhere by its vendor and newly created components can be added to your company's wiki, such as mediaWiki.

Alternatively, the company may need some knowledge management. See the introductory videos from kbPublisher. kbPublisher is an OpenSource Knowledge Base which may be even more suitable than a groupware like mediaWiki. The free version of kbPublisher can be downloaded here.

Note each project should have a feature which displays the framework version number and configuration, as needed by staff. This way, when you are targeting a particular client, the system can be identified remotely.

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Open source tools like GIT or SVN may provide source code management however they may lack in the functions you are asking particularly bugs or ratings. There are also many paid tools available in the market which not only provides source code management but also management and integrations over projects. You may explore:

TFS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_Foundation_Server Rational Clear Case http://www-03.ibm.com/software/products/en/clearcase