Reporting

No one likes to do paperwork, or provide reporting, as a matter of course. Yet, you, as a website developer, administrator, or an extension provider, will benefit from a host of standardized reports. These make excellent customer deliverables, and as a developer, would show a large amount of value to the client.

Keeping with our example of testing for an SQL injection, let's say that the site patch upgrade you are testing is vulnerable to that particular attack.

Using this tool to create a task is simple:

While creating a task we assign a Start Date and End Date, assign the Priority (in relation to the success of the project as whole), and then assign the resource to test it. In this demonstration, the engineer, John Smith will be testing the SQL injection fix.

As you can see, this would roll up to your dashboard and show you where the project is, keeping it on the track.

One major flaw with many software packages, GNU/GPL, and commercial products for Joomla! is the lack of good documentation...