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There were many updates to our blog in December. Here is our monthly recap:

Ten Ways You Know You Need a New Approach to Test Management—Highlights some common ways for a team to identify when they have outgrown their current test case management system.

Seapine ALM 2012 Betas Now Available—TestTrack, Surround SCM, and QA Wizard Pro betas are all open and available for you to try out! Some of the highlights of this release include calculated fields in  TestTrack, improved support for offline changes in Surround SCM, and Google Chrome support in QA Wizard Pro.

Video: Simulating User Behavior with QA Wizard Pro Load Testing—Learn how to use a mix of scripts and web load testing options to emulate a variety of user types.

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You can use calculated custom fields with workflow events. This video explains how to create a new calculated custom field that shows you the number of times a workflow event has been executed. The example in the video uses the Fix event, so you can see how many times an item has been fixed. It’s easy to apply the example to other workflow events.

Calculated fields, which were introduced in TestTrack 2012, have a variety of uses. In this video, I’ll show you how to create a custom field that calculates how long an item has been in its current workflow state. This example shows you some of the date functions available with calculated fields.