Every time you complete a Seapine Software support survey, you are entered into a quarterly drawing for an Apple iPod. Janis Hickman completed the survey last quarter and was randomly selected as the winner of the iPod. Congratulations Janis!
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I built a domain-specific language (DSL) in my text editor so that I don’t have to remember all of the details involved in WordPress blogging. To write this article I type :save-as-blog-draft in vim, my text editor. I don’t have to mess with the details of logging into WordPress, picking a post to edit, and then manually pressing the Save Draft button. Setup took about an hour and by now I’ve blissfully forgotten the manual labor involved in blogging.
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When I work on product documentation, I frequently sync my working directories with Surround SCM repositories to make sure I am using current files and other writers can access files I have been working on. Surround SCM’s Repository Differences dialog box makes this simple. Each of our user guides is in a project that has several topics (.htm files), images, and other support files. Typically, multiple writers add, modify, and remove files in the same project at the same time. When I check in my work, I view differences for the entire project repository to identify files I need to add to Surround SCM, files that other writers added or updated that I need to get, and files to delete from my working directory because another writer deleted them from the project.
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For my first blog post I thought it would be a good idea to post about how I use Surround SCM. I always find it interesting to see how developers actually use the tools they develop. When I’m using Surround SCM on my Mac I prefer to use FileMerge. What is FileMerge, you ask? FileMerge is a free utility that comes bundled with the Apple Developer Tools, it allows you to view the differences between files, as well as merge the contents of different file versions. If you’ve done any development on a team, you know that a tool like this can be your Swiss Army knife.
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I used to classify drag-and-drop as a “lipstick” feature–one that looked great during product demos but one that nobody actually used. So when I found out we were going to enhance QA Wizard Pro’s drag-and-drop capabilities for the 2010.0 release, I was skeptical. Fortunately, I was wrong.
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The ability to rollback changes is a basic functionality that any software configuration management tool should have. Surround SCM provides more than one way to rollback changes. You can rollback a file to any prior point in time and you can also choose to rollback a promote or a rebase.
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The 2010.1 releases are shipping later this month! To help you get a jump start on making the most of the new functionality, we’re hosting “What’s New” webinars for TestTrack, Surround SCM, and QA Wizard Pro.
Each of these 30 minute webinars will include a live product demonstration by senior product managers with an opportunity for you to ask follow-up questions about the features that matter most to your team.
Register: What’s New in QA Wizard Pro 2010.1 (Tue April 27 @ 1 pm EDT US)
Register: What’s New in TestTrack 2010.1 (Wed April 28 @ 1 pm EDT US)
Register: What’s New in Surround SCM 2010.1 (Thu April 29 @ 1 pm EDT US)
Share on Technorati . del.icio.us . Digg . Reddit . Slashdot . Facebook . StumbleUponRSS feeds are a great way to expose your issues, test cases, and requirements to external users. You can provide a feed of critical issues to the product management team, give the product owner a feed of all stories in the current sprint, or give customers access to their feature requests. Watch the video, or read the blog post for details on creating and using RSS feeds in TestTrack.
Create the Filter
RSS feeds are based on filters you set up for specific item types. The key is to set sharing to Publish.
Share on Technorati . del.icio.us . Digg . Reddit . Slashdot . Facebook . StumbleUponInternally, web browsers convert HTML into a tree and process this tree. The W3C calls this tree the Document Object Model (DOM). Web developers have a variety of ways to select data from this DOM tree. For example, they can use CSS Selectors or JavaScript functions like getElementById. They can also use XPath, a language designed for selecting nodes in XML documents.
Share on Technorati . del.icio.us . Digg . Reddit . Slashdot . Facebook . StumbleUponI have updated our labs page in regards to integration with Microsoft’s Team Foundation Server (TFS). Even though this is not an ‘out of the box’ supported integration, you do have several options.
We had two sample scripts on how TFS could be integrated with TestTrack Pro and TestTrack TCM. I have updated them so they can be used out of the box. Previously they had connection information hard coded, which meant you had to change the source code and recompile in order to use them. I have also added a new article.
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