The Seapine View

A few months back (has it been over a  year already?), I posted a sample tool to search file contents in Surround SCM. Since that time, we have made two important additions to Surround SCM that I felt warranted a fresh approach to this tool.

I have re-written this tool with two major differences:

• I used the Surround SCM API instead of the CLI.
• The tool is designed to be launched by a custom menu in the Surround SCM client, giving you a more native feel.

There are other minor enhancements as well:

• Choose whether to do a case sensitive search or not.
• Choose whether to search recursively or not.
• Choose whether to save your password or not (in plain text).

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I was recently on-site with a customer. Aside from the usual tasks, like conducting training classes and configuring workflows, there was one interesting challenge. The customer wanted to integrate TestTrack RM and TestTrack TCM with ClearQuest. The customer did not want to use the ClearQuest API because they were using a very old version of ClearQuest and were planning on upgrading. The risk of changes in the API between the versions was high.

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One question I get every now and then is how to implement a test sequence in TestTrack TCM.  The concept of “before you test Y, you must test X first”.

There isn’t a specific feature in TestTrack to address this but there are actually several ways to implement test sequences. Following is one way.
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We recently released version 2010.1 of TestTrack, which contains many new exciting new features. One new feature that I would like to give some love to is Item Mapping Rules. This feature will benefit users who have more than one TestTrack applications, as it allows you to configure how field values are mapped from one application to another.

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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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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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I 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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Attach2TestTrack allows Team Foundation Server (TFS) users to associate files in the Team Explorer’s Source Code view with defect(s) in TestTrack Pro.

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As a consultant, I have been exposed to many different development methodologies and processes. In most cases, assignments are performed by a person that is aware of staff resources and distributes tasks according to the availability of these resources.
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If you are a loyal reader of this blog, chances are that you read Gerhard Kruger’s post about our Visual Studio Integration.  In this article, Gerhard talks about accessing TestTrack Pro items and Surround SCM actions from within Visual Studio. I’d like to present a different angle to this integration, specifically, the TestTrack Pro integration.
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