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After you add a review note to a requirement, you may realize you need to add information to it or correct mistakes. Depending on your security permissions, you can edit review notes to make changes.

Review notes are workflow events that can be edited like other events. The quickest way to edit a review note from Review Mode View in the Specification Document window is to click the Review Note link to edit the note.

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We’re heading out on an Agile expedition in June! Over the next several months, we’ll be exploring a variety of Agile topics with best practices discussion and in-depth details on how our ALM tools support Agile teams. This is a web-based learning series that takes you from starting a backlog and running your first sprint all the way through releasing your product.

Join The Agile Expedition!

We’ll cover a new topic every other week, beginning with the ‘Start Your Agile Journey with TestTrack‘ webinar on June 2. From there, we head out for a deeper exploration of how you can empower development, quality assurance, and product owners using Agile methodologies and an integrated toolset.

Not sure you can handle the full expedition yet? Register for the webinar now and hop on the expedition afterwards.

Note: If you join the expedition, you’re automatically signed up for the webinar so no need to register for both.

I prefer using Mac OS X as my operating system. However, I often need to connect to multiple projects at once. This is a problem because Mac OS X only supports running one instance of an Application Bundle, so you can only run one instance of TestTrack at a time.

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Surround SCM supports integration with Microsoft Access. SCC integration within Access is implemented through the Microsoft Source Code Control Interface (MSSCCI).  You’ll also need the Access source code control add-in.

The Microsoft Office plug-in is optionally installed during the Surround SCM Client installation. If you did not install it initially, rerun the client installer. When you start Access, the Surround SCM connection is automatically configured. You can also configure the connection manually.
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Test-driven development (TDD) methodologies advocate writing unit tests before making your code functional. If you practice TDD, wouldn’t it be great if you could easily create user interface tests in addition to your unit tests?
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We published several TestTrack sample projects a while back, but we didn’t do much documentation on them and they were buried way down in  Seapine Labs. We’ve taken some steps with the 2010.1 release to improve those samples and make them more visible.

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Recently, a customer asked the following question: “How can you filter the list of test runs based on the test variants it contains?”

The reason the question came up is because, while you can display a “Test Variant” column in the Test Runs list window, you can only filter the column between runs that have variants and those that do not.

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PostgreSQL supports continuous archiving that records every change made to a database. Data is logged in the write ahead log (WAL), which is stored in the pg_xlog/ directory in the PostgreSQL data directory (e.g., C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.3\data\pg_xlog). WAL archiving helps provide more complete crash recovery and allows point-in-time recovery.

Following is basic information for setting up WAL archiving, creating a base backup, and recommendations for the frequency of performing base backups. For more information about WAL archiving and data recovery, refer to the PostgreSQL documentation.
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You need to perform the following maintenance tasks for Surround SCM PostgreSQL databases on a regular basis:

1. Vacuum the database
2. Rebuild the database index
3. Maintain the log files

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I worked on the C# API, which is really a wrapper for the C API, For the Surround SCM 2010.0 release. If you’ve ever written a wrapper or any type of “code layer” you know how important it is to keep up with changes made to the base layer. Surround SCM has a feature called “Email Notifications” that allows you to do just that. As you may have guessed, an email notification is just an email that is sent to you when a specified action takes place. Going back to my work on the C# API, to keep up with changes to the C API I set up an email notification to alert me anytime another user performed a change to a file in the API repository.

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