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TestTrack 2009.0 was released on February 5, 2009!

Whether you need to do release planning for your next Agile project, know where you stand with the issues assigned to you, or share status information with management, you’ll find something in TestTrack 2009 to love.

This release contains significant new features and enhancements to support your TestTrack reporting needs as well as scalability, usability, and performance improvements.

Check out what’s new and download TestTrack 2009 today!

Works with TestTrack 2009 and later.

The list grouping stylesheet, released in TestTrack 2009, has been a big hit.

In the zip below you’ll find a collection of stylesheets altered to position the chart and data table differently, as well as completely removing either from the report.

Figure 1 – A basic list grouping report

Lastly, the original is included so that you can diff the changes in each.

Download the stylesheet alterations.

The following example illustrates how you can automatically generate test runs based on changed files in Surround SCM.

The program first queries Surround SCM for changes in a specified repository in a specified branch within a specified time range.

If there are files that have changed, the program then checks the TestTrack project for any test cases that have any of the files attached in the source code tab.

For any test case that has a changed source code file attached, a test run is generated for every combination of “included” test variants.
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Since version 2009 has some changes to how labels work, there are also changes to the Command Line Interface (CLI).

The following is a review of the CLI commands that are affected by the change in labels.
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Labels have always been a part of Surround SCM, however, they were originally provided mainly to support conversions from legacy systems that used labels. The following is an overview of the new labels.
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The obvious benefit of having the Surround SCM database in an RDBMS format is reporting. Another benefit that may not be so obvious is the ability to access the database programatically.

In previous versions, our only option was to run a Command Line Interface (CLI) command, pipe the output into a text file, and then parse the text file to get the data we were after.

This approach, while doable, wasn’t an exact science and performance was not the best.
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This example uses Microsoft .NET charts to create a stacked column chart that reports on check-in activity per branch per month.

Figure 1 below illustrates how the chart may look like:
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For this example we are using Microsoft Sharepoint, but in theory you could use any web technology that allows you to query the database and has similar controls, namely the tree view controls and the data grid view control.
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Applies to Surround SCM 2009

If you need to query the database for historic file events, you will need to query the EVENT table, sepcifially the EventType column. This column contains an integer, unique for each event type.

Below is a table to help you determine the event for every event id you may have.
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