Mylyn Reviews & Product Details

1. I can switch context from one development task to another by a single click! This means seeing only files that are relevant to the task at hand.

2. Mylyn automatically keeps track of the time I spent in Eclipse working on the task. This is extremely cheap, and much more precise than any manual time tracking.

3. Mylyn integrates with JIRA and many other work-management applications. This means I can update JIRA task status without having to leave Eclipse window. It also allows me to attach Mylyn context to JIRA ticket, so that another developer can use it later. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. I use multiple Eclipse workspaces, one per development branch, and tasks sometimes span branches, i.e., workspaces, but there's no simple, bulletproof way to share the task context among multiple workspaces.

2. Sometimes, one task builds on top of another - it would be useful to start working on a task by copying the context of another, similar task. Currently, I'm not aware of a way to do that in Mylyn. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy to use, great platform. It's also great customer service. The buttons are very intuitive, as are all of the options in the platform. I also like the color choices and graphics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing really, it works just fine. Price maybe. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The best aspect of Mylyn is the color coded visuals that help track progress, items ready for release and defects. At the beginning and end of every day, the ability to reference this documentation is essential for cross-geo developers. I utilized this tool when working with a huge development team and often changed and it was effective to jump into this lifecycle management to quickly understand what has been touched and where to start or end your day. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The design isn't the greatest but it works for extreme coding and what's relevant. At times it took an extended amount of time to load but beyond that, I don't think one can complain about the features and the business problems it resolves. I think in the future they could improve the UI to quickly compete with new tools on the market today. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Integrated task management and auto context management.

Defining local tasks and mylyn will allow focus on it.

Defacing irrelevant tasks, only active can be taken care of. Which helps on easy context switching and sharing.

Restructured mylyn 3.5 and above includes lots of components support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mylyn can be concept centric rather than only task centric.

UI is clumsy with multiple choices.

can improve integrating with other issue tracking systems Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mylyn creates context metadata when an enhancement is being developed, or a bug is being addressed. When integrated with the source control repository and the bug tracker (I did so successfully with svn or git, and jira or mantis in my experience) this kind of contextual information is of remarkable value, as it will include those assets which are not directly part of the change submitted, but are important because are in, direct or indirect, relation with the change. Having that information attached with bug reports, or development tasks, (automatically) creates good documentation, and at the same times improves the efficiency and response time of the development team during the sdlc, in particular when addressing regressions, because it is directly consumable while inside the IDE. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Integration with third-party bug tracking tools has not been consistent, and not always optimal, but improved a lot. Sometimes the UI is a bit clunky, but that is probably a general problem of the eclipse architecture/toolkit. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The best part of this utility is that you can create tasks and integrate directly them with bug reporting tool like BugZilla. It's very very easy and smooth. You can create local and shared tasks so that other can work on bugs/tasks as well. Query mechanism is there for retrieving sets of tasks into Mylyn's Task List. It allows you to attach the attachment to a task as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cannot create local tickets and sometimes the UI hangs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The best feature of Mylyn is the "task focused interface". The idea is to automatically filter Explorer and other views according to objects and resources you have used while working on a ticket. The automatically filtered view greatly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The requirement to create a ticket in some issue tracker system. It's possible to create a ticket in local database but that is a bit cumbersome. Another big problem with the system is that Mylyn cannot give any major adventages if the tools you use do not support Mylyn well enough. For example, my daily job is to design and program PHP code. The Eclipse PHP tooling (PDT) fails to support Mylyn in many places where it could support it UI wise. The biggest problem is that PDT does not really support Project Explorer view but requires one to use custom PHP Explorer view which has poor support for Mylyn. Ff I were using Eclipse just to write Java code, then Mylyn would work just great.

The default binding for opening currently hidden content in Project Explorer requires ALT+left mouse button click which does not work with most Linux desktop managers because that combination is usually taken by window manager. As a result, one either needs to re-configure shortcuts of Eclipse or window manager, or fall back to selecting the action from context menu. The "Open Resource" (Ctrl+Shift+R) is a good option, too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Task list icons which quickly gives an overview. Icon legend and color coding scheme is excellent.

Easy to search the task with different criteria.

Support for both local and repository task provided. Most of the ALM tool have repository task support.

Create new query to see the task list in own view is easy and good for users.

TASK editing is easy to use.

Bug management is so easy.

Creating Bug from error tab is coolest feature. Although not much used.

Perfect tool for small team to use.

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The tool can not be used as standalone for change management or for release planning as other ALM tools.

I am not sure whether it will fit in Agile methodology or not. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the fact that Mylyn enables a very task-focused software development thanks to its framework. This focus is very beneficial for teams that follow an Agile methodology of some kind.

Also, I always have to commend open source projects such as Mylyn. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I dislike Mylyn's interface. It's a bit too cluttered in my opinion, which makes it hard to use this framework for the first time and it's not easy to adapt to it.

Plus, since it's not very intuitive, setting up the framework and learning how to use it takes too long for the benefits that it brings to the team. This is perhaps a problem of many of Eclipse's plugins and extensions as Eclipse itself doesn't have a very intuitive interface.

Finally, and this is probably a problem that's inherited from Eclipse, Mylyn's performance is not that great, especially if you're working on a machine with lower computational power. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's tight integration with eclipse, i.e. no more need to switch context and having to check a web page for every time you're looking for a ticket. Everything is just in your eclipse development environment thanks to Mylyn !

This also bring an additional comfort to your development experience, and a flexibility that can't reproduced easily when it comes to put tasks and code side by side. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mylyn lacks itself the possibility to track down concerns automatically but tasks can be used within the queries. Also, Mylyn lacks the possibility to calculate elements that belong to one given task and not another one. This may be a limitation that can be solved or fixed in future versions of the product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.