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As an innovative collaborative R & D management system, Topo brings customers a large number of new and useful functions that are not or rarely implemented in other similar management systems.

One of the innovations of Topo: research and development process support (All In Topo)

As the next generation of integrated R & D collaboration management system, Topo provides management support for the whole development process of almost all R & D teams. TOPO system brings customers a high degree of integration of all R & D process management functions that are not provided by most R & D management systems at present, including requirements management, task management, continuous integration, test management, document management, source code base in-depth view, code review, continuous integration, cost management, conference management and many other R & D activities. The following table is a list of major R & D activities supported by Topo:

Activity classification management object

Project management status management, phase management, version management, change management, etc.

Process management requirements management, planning and task management, test management, automatic construction and continuous integration, defect management, etc.

The project supports code management, document management, work log, meeting management, cost management, etc.

Quality management document review, code review (online), etc.

Develop collaborative project Wiki, project blog, project forum, work record, etc.

Topo Innovation II: project-based fully customized enumerated type field support (Full Self-Define Enum Field)

The type fields provided by the system by default often do not meet the specific needs of each team, and users can completely customize these fields. It is worth mentioning that each project can extend its own type items without affecting other projects. Take defect report as an example, there is a type field "defect priority" in the system. Obviously, different companies and even different teams of the same company may put forward their own classification criteria for defect priority. The following figure shows which enumerated properties can be defined by Topo users through the graphical interface:

With regard to the user-defined functionality of enumerated types, general management systems provide only the name definition of enumerated entries, but Topo provides much richer functionality:

Default values for enumerated fields in the new form are predefined

With the help of the color display control function, users can control the color and background color display of the text of the enumerated fields according to their preferences.

By enumerating whether control is enabled, the project manager can control at will whether the enumerated entry is valid in the project.

The custom enumeration types supported by the Topo system also support infinite-level definition, which is often used for size category control. The most typical example is BOM classification, where users can define large categories of materials, and then define their own subclasses under each major category, and subclasses can also be defined under subclasses.

The third innovation of Topo: custom query

Generally speaking, there are a lot of data items accumulated in the R & D process, especially when the project scale is large or the project cycle is long. Therefore, well-designed systems need to provide powerful query functions. If the R & D system does not even support user-defined queries, this R & D system is almost impossible to use.

The custom query filter function can be seen in many systems, but few systems can do it in terms of the completeness of the query filter custom function implemented in Topo:

The Topo system supports any single field, multi-field combination, field operation, etc., as filter definition conditions, and supports any level of condition (AND,OR) nested definition.

The Topo system provides user customization of three types of query filters. The system filters correspond to the most commonly used queries that each team needs. The project query filter is visible to all members of the project, and each user can independently define a personal query filter that is visible only to him or her.

Topo supports the use of filter definitions for statistics.

Topo Innovation IV: custom Statistics

In the face of the increasing accumulation of massive R & D process data, it is not enough to provide query function. R & D workers, especially the middle and senior managers of R & D, pay more attention to the overall status of the R & D process.

For example, the project manager wants to know the defects in a certain version, and if there are more defects to be resolved in a certain version, it is obvious that he will not pay attention to each defect report in the first place. Instead, he would prefer to know the overall status of defect reports in that version, such as the distribution of defect processing progress in that version (that is, how many defects are being resolved, how many defects are being verified, and so on). Or he also wants to see the number of unresolved defects in a version change over time, so that he and project members can know whether the defects in that version are "converging" or still "growing." the following figure shows how Topo provides this information through statistical capabilities:

The powerful statistical functions provided by Topo are as follows:

In addition to providing a special list of statistical views to view the statistical results one by one, the Topo system can appear in any of the following places: in the form (form) of a management object (model); in the project home page; and in the management object (model) home page.

Topo provides user customization of statistical views based on the graphical interface (GUI). The function of the statistical view that the user can define through GUI is completely consistent with the pre-defined function of the system.

Similar to the query filter definition, Topo also supports three types of statistical views: system statistics view, project statistics view, and personal statistics view.

Topo allows advanced users to fully customize statistical views, including those preset by the system. That is, any pre-defined statistical views seen by users in the Topo system are modified according to the needs of users.

With the powerful statistical function provided by Topo, it will be easier for R & D managers to achieve quantitative performance management within the R & D team, because the Topo system provides complete user-defined statistical functions for any management object such as working hours, tasks, defects, review code and so on.

The fifth innovation of Topo: full TAG technology

If you know all the information links in WIKI,WIKI, they are linked in a grid in the form of tags. TOPO system to achieve a complete TAG function, it is worth mentioning that the TOPO system to achieve a lot of other systems do not have the function, such as completely user-defined TAG, all management objects in the system can be referenced through the tag, the tag can appear any user text input, such as the name of the defect, description, commentary field, Check in code provided in the Message.

Example of tags in the code base:

The tag functions provided by the Topo system are:

Any management object can be tagged. A certain version, a test case, a requirement, a code change, a version of source code, etc., are all tagged in the Topo system, and users can use them themselves.

Tags can appear anywhere in the system, from forms to changes in code, to comments in the process.

The label definition of any management object is uniformly defined in a statistical tag file, and users can modify these definitions according to their own needs, from the display of the label to the identification method of the tag.

The label input is automatically recognized, and if a label input is valid, the system automatically shades the reminder; if a label format is valid but the specified label object does not exist, the system also makes a timely reminder.

Topo Innovation VI: hierarchical Project support

Through the hierarchical organizational management functions provided by the Topo system, the R & D team can easily adapt to any organizational structure. Each project in the system can independently choose which functional modules to enable, such as the functional modules enabled by the test team, hardware team and software team, which can be easily achieved through project-based module customization.

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