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Join us for the What’s New in Seapine ALM 2012 webinar on February 7th as we showcase over 100 new features and enhancements for Seapine ALM 2012. The improvements to Seapine ALM 2012, which includes TestTrack, Surround SCM, and QA Wizard Pro, aim to help you deliver quality software faster.

New TestTrack features include a new native relational database, custom fields that calculate values, and draft and active custom fields. Surround SCM’s new features include improved offline support, more flexible mainline branches, and additional integrations, while QA Wizard Pro now features stress testing, Google Chrome support, integration enhancements, and more.

In the one-hour webinar, Paula Rome and Grant Lammi, Seapine product managers, will demonstrate the new features in Seapine ALM 2012. When the demonstration is over, you’ll have time to ask questions and learn more.

The webinar is being offered twice to accommodate Europe and North America attendees. The first webinar begins at 2:00 p.m. Western European Time (9:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time), and the second will follow at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (11:00 a.m. Pacific Standard Time).

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Seapine 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.

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TestTrack’s sample project includes a sample workflow for managing requirements and requirement documents. In most cases, customers base their workflow on the sample, but want to tweak it to meet their needs. This article  explains how to make three quick tweaks to the sample workflow: configuring when requirements and requirement documents are locked, enabling test cases to be generated from requirements, and configuring the workflow states and events.

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Pop 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?

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Do requirements still matter in an Agile environment? What is the business case for Agile, and why is the market moving toward Agile solutions? Agile experts from Seapine Software will answer these questions and more at the TechNet-Aero Conference in Dayton, Ohio, October 17-20.

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We’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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Will you be attending the Verify/ATI Conference at the end of September? If so, be sure to sit in on the two talks we’re hosting.

Peter Varhol will be presenting When to Ship: Using Automation to Determine Application Deployment Readiness at 2:45 p.m. on September 27. During this presentation, Peter will provide measurable criteria for determining when an application is ready to ship. He will also discuss how to create objective measures of completeness and how to collect data and track progress toward that end. Peter will explain how testers and quality assurance professionals can work with application stakeholders to contribute to both the definition and automated measurement that determines if an application is fit for its intended purpose.

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The 2011.1 release of Surround SCM included a new feature that allows you to use promote and rebase as pre-event trigger actions. This makes it easy to check a certain condition and decide if you want to allow a promote or rebase to continue. The condition is evaluated on the file that contains the change that is being promoted or rebased. As an example, I’m going to show you how to prevent a promote based on file state.

This example uses a reverse waterfall branch model. Changes are checked in to a development branch and reviewed. After they are approved, the changes are promoted to a staging branch for integration testing. Once those tests pass, the changes are promoted to the production branch.

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Thanks to everyone who joined us for the FDA Design Traceability Requirements for Device Development webinar with John Avellanet, Managing Director & Principal at Cerulean Associates, LLC and Larry Nicholson, Business Development Manager for Life Sciences at Seapine Software. If you missed the event, or want to watch it again, the recording can be found below or viewed on SlideShare. Additionally, you can download the FDA Expectations for Traceability in Device Design slide deck.

Q&A

Where can I find the FDA draft document for medical applications?

All of the recent medical device guidance documents can be found on the FDA site: www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/DeviceRegulationandGuidance/GuidanceDocuments/ucm162707.htm. (Avellanet)

Is an application that sets up datasets for infusion pumps considered a medical application?

Take a look at the guidance, specifically at the criteria listed on pages 13-15, and then the examples provided by the agency in Appendix A of the guidance. (Avellanet)

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While Agile has been gaining more and more ground, it appears that many organizations are also adopting their own flavor of Agile. They take the parts that they like or work for them and integrate them into their own process. Sometimes this is driven by outside factors, like compliance needs and customers.

In these instances, you may have a need to manage both requirements and user stories in the same project. In this post, I’ll talk about one way to do this in TestTrack.

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