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Seapine is proud to help sponsor Software Quality Days 2012 in Vienna, Austria. Seapine will also be exhibiting and presenting at the conference, which takes place January 17-19 at the Austria Trend Hotel Savoyen Vienna.
Peter Varhol, Seapine Solution Evangelist, will give a presentation on “Integrating Testing into Agile Development.” Peter will talk about testing and the role of testers in Agile methodologies, with a focus on integrating testing into an Agile practice. He’ll examine traditional testing practices and how those practices should adapt to achieve the goals of a chosen Agile methodology.
Martin Kochloefl, Seapine Solutions Consultant, will present “Guidelines for Software Testers in an Agile Era,” in which he explains how both testing and the role of testers change in an Agile development environment. Martin will discuss how managers can help testing teams adapt to those changes, with the goal of effectively integrating testing with development to create one cohesive team that consistently delivers quality software.
Share on Technorati . del.icio.us . Digg . Reddit . Slashdot . Facebook . StumbleUponRemember when you used to be able to track test cases and pass/fail results in a simple spreadsheet? It took all of 30 minutes a week to update the data, and no one asked for it more often than that. However, over time, the need for more precise and timely test information grew and the spreadsheet grew too. At the same time, the applications you test also became more complex. You started with 100 test cases but you’re currently up to 400 and counting.
Your spreadsheet now includes more information about each test case, such as when a test case was run, how long it took, where it failed, if a defect report was created, how long it took the defect to be resolved, and much more. That spreadsheet now has several dozen columns, with a jumble of dates, numbers, and text. You can’t easily view or report on the data you’re tracking.
Share on Technorati . del.icio.us . Digg . Reddit . Slashdot . Facebook . StumbleUponAndrew Horner, one of our Sales Engineers, was recently on-site with a customer that purchased Surround SCM, and had a large amount of source code which they wanted to import into Surround SCM from another tool. The customer had also been using a source code plug-in that allowed them to perform source code control (SCC) actions from within Visual Studio. Surround SCM has a similar plug-in that allows you to perform all of the standard SCC actions as well as other actions specific to Surround SCM, such as attaching source code changes to an item in TestTrack Pro.
In this post, Andrew explains how to bind to Surround SCM as the source code provider for an existing project. This example uses one of our sample Visual Studio solutions, Bug Reporter, that is currently bound with Visual SourceSafe, and shows you how to change the binding from Visual SourceSafe to Surround SCM Integration Provider. If you’re converting from another source code management tool, the steps will be similar.
Share on Technorati . del.icio.us . Digg . Reddit . Slashdot . Facebook . StumbleUponSeapine will be exhibiting at the EuroSTAR Test Tools and Services Exhibition, which runs alongside the EuroSTAR Software Testing Conference 2011. This year, EuroSTAR 2011 takes place from November 21-24 in Manchester, UK. The exhibition segment of the conference opens on Tuesday and closes after the last coffee break on Thursday evening. You can find Seapine at Stand 90.
Share on Technorati . del.icio.us . Digg . Reddit . Slashdot . Facebook . StumbleUponWhen do you ship an application? The answer seems simple—you ship when it’s ready. However, there are many possible definitions of “ready.”
According to Seapine Software’s Peter Varhol, customers, users, and development teams must all agree on what “ready” means—before work begins on the project. Peter discusses this issue in his presentation, When to Ship: Using Automation to Determine Application Deployment Readiness, on Wednesday, November 9, at the Better Software Conference East.
If there is no common consensus on what “ready” means, you may be tempted to release an application before its product goals are met. Peter presents different approaches to determining when an application has the required quality to be ready to ship.
Learn the factors to base your ready-to-ship decision on, so the project team and the business will know whether to continue working or declare, “Ready.”
Seapine Software has released preliminary support for Apple’s Xcode 4.2 IDE. This is a beta and a pre-release, which may be somewhat buggy.
You can obtain the installer package here:
http://downloads.seapine.com/pub/beta/scm/xcode/SurroundSCM_xCode4.2_beta.zip
Share on Technorati . del.icio.us . Digg . Reddit . Slashdot . Facebook . StumbleUponPop quiz, hotshot: You’ve got a major release due, you’re under the gun to get it out on time…and suddenly the developer in the next cubical turns into a brain-eating ghoul. What do you do? What do you do?
There’s no shortage of survival guides for the inevitable zombie apocalypse. Heck, even the CDC has tips. Sure, you can pick up Max Brooks’ The Zombie Survival Guide—and we recommend you do—but what happens if the brains hit the fan while you’re at the office?
Share on Technorati . del.icio.us . Digg . Reddit . Slashdot . Facebook . StumbleUponTestTrack ships with a SOAP-based SDK that allows you to extend TestTrack and incorporate its core features, such as issue management and tracking, into your own applications. The SDK documentation was recently updated and now includes a web-based Programmer’s Guide that provides examples of common SOAP tasks, such as populating custom fields and editing items. If you’re using the TestTrack SDK, be sure to take a few minutes to check out the new guide and let us know what you think.
Share on Technorati . del.icio.us . Digg . Reddit . Slashdot . Facebook . StumbleUponBuzzwords have been known to make me cringe, which is why I can’t believe I’ve jumped on the Agile bandwagon. Or dipped my toe in the Agile pool. Or gone for a swim in the Agile ocean. But let me explain.
In Alan Bustamante’s last blog post, he let the marketing and Kanban cat out of the bag. Seapine isn’t exclusively an Agile company, but Agile seems to be working its way into teams and processes throughout the company. The marketing team started using a Kanban board this past spring for a number of reasons. I’d like to share some thoughts and observations with you.
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