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Seapine Software will be at REConf 2012, a European requirements management conference being held March 12-16 in Munich, Germany. The motto of the 11th annual conference is: Quo Vadis, requirements engineering?

In addition to being a conference sponsor, we will also be exhibiting and presenting at the conference. Martin Kochloefl, Seapine Solutions Consultant, will present “Requirements and Agile: Keeping Pace with Change” on 14 March at 12:10. Martin will discuss how the combination of user stories and formal requirements can help teams raise their quality level and enhance development agility. If you have been reluctant to introduce Agile practices into your requirements engineering process, this talk is a great introduction to doing so effectively.

More information: REConf 2012

Here’s a quick look at how you can set up TestTrack to notify you of changes to approved requirements. Following is a sample workflow for requirements, where we’re essentially putting every requirement into one of three silos: Ready for Review, Approved, or Implemented.

Simple requirements workflow diagram

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Seapine is proud to be exhibiting at the inaugural Testfest Conference in Brighton, UK on 22nd February. Members of our UK team will be in attendance, showcasing the Seapine ALM 2012 release. Stop by if you’re looking for help with automated testing or need to integrate management of requirements, testing, issues, feature requests, and work items.

About the Conference

Testfest is a new and exciting event, bringing testing and QA communities of the ‘traditional commercial’ teams and the game industry teams together to learn from each other and network into one big community. The whole day is geared towards encouraging discussion, debate and networking.

Seapine Software recently released Seapine ALM 2012, its quality-centric application lifecycle management suite. Seapine ALM 2012 contains over 100 new features and enhancements that enhance traceability, support thorough application testing, and provide more control over managing projects.

The enhancements to Seapine ALM 2012 include new features for TestTrack, Surround SCM, and QA Wizard Pro. These tools will help teams deliver products faster by eliminating steps, streamlining processes, and automating repetitive tasks.

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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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