AppleInsider Staff
Apple's online "Bug Reporter" tool, also known as "Radar," has been given a facelift with new features, such as improved searching and auto-saving.
The revamped website became available to developers this weekend, and boasts further improvements for attaching files, and also recognizing when a bug has already been reported. Details and pictures from the new website were shared by AppleInsider reader Hunter.
Apple's Bug Reporter includes the ability to filter bugs, and utilize an advanced search to find specific problems. Development can be divided into a number of categories, including operating systems like iOS, and services like iCloud.
Bug Reporter is only accessible by authorized Apple developers.
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6 Comments
FINALLY!!!!
About freakin' time. It's been 15 years.
Still sucks compared to the bug reporting tool NeXT had. The point is, it's ridiculous for a tool like that to be web based: NeXT had a desktop app, and the reports were then sent out as a machine-formatted and machine-parsable e-mail. The results were equally put into a bug database, but it was possible to collect info into a bug report over hours or days if needed, without things timing out, it was possible to work off-line, and reports were mailed out whenever the machine had connectivity; and things worked flawlessly over low bandwidth connections such as mobile Internet without needlessly gobbling up bandwidth or being painfully slow and unresponsive. Apple's assumption that everyone works or wants to work while hooked up to some fat pipe just isn't a valid assumption.
[quote name="rcfa" url="/t/159311/apple-launches-redesigned-bug-reporter-website-for-developers#post_2388544"]Still sucks compared to the bug reporting tool NeXT had. The point is, it's ridiculous for a tool like that to be web based: NeXT had a desktop app[/quote] If they changed the UI like they just did or used any different filing method, they'd have to get everyone to update their copy of the app. On NeXT, they didn't really have much choice, this was before Google and the web really hadn't expanded all that much (
[quote name="Marvin" url="/t/159311/apple-launches-redesigned-bug-reporter-website-for-developers#post_2388565"][quote name="rcfa" url="/t/159311/apple-launches-redesigned-bug-reporter-website-for-developers#post_2388544"]Still sucks compared to the bug reporting tool NeXT had. The point is, it's ridiculous for a tool like that to be web based: NeXT had a desktop app[/quote] If they changed the UI like they just did or used any different filing method, they'd have to get everyone to update their copy of the app. On NeXT, they didn't really have much choice, this was before Google and the web really hadn't expanded all that much (