Excel Software Ships QuickBugs for Linux
Bug Tracking Made Easy!

Placitas, NM ­ May 3, 2002 - Excel Software today began shipping a new tool
for reporting, tracking and resolving bugs, issues, changes and new features
involved in product development.  QuickBugs can assist product development
and maintenance by focusing effort on the tasks required to quickly and
efficiently complete a project. Bugs are more quickly resolved using a
well-defined workflow that can be fully customized by the organization.

Configuration data and bug reports created by QuickBugs Linux are saved in
XML files.  These files are compatible with the updated 1.0.1 version of
QuickBugs Windows.  Users on either platform can edit bug reports and
configure custom views, queries and reports.

Key attributes include extreme ease-of-use and flexibility, a shared
repository accessible to multiple users, multiple projects with assigned
responsibilities, configurable access and privileges for users on each
project.  Virtually everything in QuickBugs is configurable to the
organization and specific user needs including data collection fields,
workflow, views, queries, reports, security and access control.  QuickBugs
implements cooperative clients of a shared repository of XML based data
thereby eliminating the cost, complexity and overhead of an RDBMS.  Given its
XML based foundation, all bugs, views, queries, reports and configuration
data are completely accessible to third party tools.

Managers, developers, testers and others involved in the development process
can use QuickBugs to enter or retrieve the specific data they need to
efficiently perform their jobs.  Managers can assign work, estimate personnel
workloads, track time required for project completion and determine release
dates based on bug detection and resolution statistics.  Developers can
efficiently investigate and resolve problems that are categorized,
prioritized and sorted to their specific needs.  Testers can quickly generate
bug reports, verify corrected problems or evaluate the efficiency of
detection methods for locating new bugs. QuickBugs will automatically
maintain the workflow, access control and history of each bug as it
progresses through its lifecycle.

QuickBugs Linux is priced at $195 for a single user license, $585 for a
5-User Site License or $1170 for an Unlimited Site License at one location.
It includes a graphical application installer, context-sensitive online help,
printed user's guide and a PDF manual on CD.  Site licensing information,
product descriptions and online ordering are available at
www.excelsoftware.com. Excel Software has over 15 years of experience in
providing tools to thousands of Macintosh, Windows and Linux developers in
over 30 countries.

Excel Software
Ph: (505) 771-3719
Fax: (505) 771-3718
Web: http://www.excelsoftware.com
Email: info@excelsoftware.com