We’re very excited to release beta versions of our Seapine ALM suite of products, including TestTrack Pro, TestTrack RM, TestTrack TCM, Surround SCM and QA Wizard Pro! The betas are open to anyone, so feel free to click through and try them out. If you do try them out, please leave feedback so that we can continue to improve our product offerings.
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Although QA Wizard Pro supports a large number of third-party controls and technologies, there are always ones that our customers are working with that we haven’t quite gotten to. This is where our .Net invocation technology can really come in handy.
QA Wizard Pro’s .Net invocation allows you to call methods and access properties on .Net objects. This not only allows you to get at information that isn’t readily available to the user interface, but also to interact with controls that QA Wizard Pro doesn’t know about.
Share on Technorati . del.icio.us . Digg . Reddit . Slashdot . Facebook . StumbleUponWe’ve added an exciting new capability to Seapine’s ALM suite this year that allows us to integrate with other ALM solutions you may be using, such as such as IBM Rational Doors, IBM Rational Requisite Pro, Perforce, Subversion, and Microsoft TFS. OpsHub is the leading vendor of ALM integration software, and we’ve been working with them over the last few months to allow for full, two-way integration with TestTrack and other tools like Doors and Jira.
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Changelists are an extremely useful feature in Surround SCM. Although changelists were initially introduced into Surround SCM to guarantee a set of actions occur atomically, they have evolved into a great way to group a set of actions together for a variety of purposes. Over time, we’ve added a number of other features that leverage changelists as a convenient grouping mechanism.
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It’s fall in Ohio, and raking the leaves is a critical task if you want to stay on good terms with your neighbors. It’s easy to let them pile up until getting through your yard becomes an exercise in futility. The same can be true with wading through your Surround SCM branch tree if you have a lot of branches. Surround SCM includes a number of ways to manage the branch tree, which should be performed on a regular basis if you want to keep things running smoothly for your users.
Share on Technorati . del.icio.us . Digg . Reddit . Slashdot . Facebook . StumbleUponWe’re very excited to release QA Wizard Pro 2010.1 to beta today! The beta is open to anyone, so feel free to click through and try it out. If you do try it out, please leave feedback so that we can continue to improve our product offerings.
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Recently, you may have read about some security attacks against large companies like Google, Adobe and others called Operation Aurora. You may have also seen that the underlying attack was against their SCM systems. McAfee published a white paper on this topic (found here) that outlines some of the problems with the SCM system in question. Continue reading…
Share on Technorati . del.icio.us . Digg . Reddit . Slashdot . Facebook . StumbleUponCustom fields allow you to define metadata you want to capture about a file beyond the normal information (like last date modified) that Surround SCM inherently tracks. Each field can be typed as text, integer, float, list, SCM users, date/time or check box. You can also set default values for any of these.
By themselves, custom fields let you do some useful things. For example, Surround ships with a custom field called Owner, which is a drop-down list of your users. As a team lead you can grab groups of design specifications and, with one click, assign those files to an engineer to manage.
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Will not work with Surround SCM 2009 and earlier
This is an example of how to use the Surround SCM API to synchronize a local folder with a repository. It came as a request from one of our documentation folks, who use a tool to produce our HTML files and then need to pump the output of that tool into an existing repository.
Basically, we get a list of the files and directories and check in any existing files, add new files or repositories, and delete old files and repositories.
Share on Technorati . del.icio.us . Digg . Reddit . Slashdot . Facebook . StumbleUponSurround SCM provides complete control over software configuration management processes. With its advanced feature set, including support for parallel development, automation capabilities, and extensive IDE integrations, setting up Surround SCM for your environment may seem like an overwhelming task. The following tips can help you set up Surround SCM to ensure maximum efficiency in your development organization.
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