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We’re excited about the upcoming Seapine ALM 2011 release and know you will be too! We’ve added more than 55 new features and enhancements to help teams deliver quality software faster, work more agilely, and comply with standards and regulations. The 2011 release also introduces our enterprise reporting platform to provide complete visibility over the application development lifecycle.

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Make plans to join us when the Seapine ALM Tour 2010 stops in Huntsville, Alabama on September 23. Meet some of our product management team, see the upcoming Seapine ALM 2011 release, and learn ways to boost agility, collaboration, and traceability! It’s all free!

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If you’ve ever considered automating redundant tasks or integrating TestTrack with other tools in your development, quality, or support groups, you’ll want to join us for our upcoming TestTrack SDK webinar series. In this three-part webinar series, Jeff Horak, senior TestTrack engineer, will take you all the way from installing the TestTrack SDK to advanced techniques for integration and automation. Each webinar will include project demonstrations with code and execution results.

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When you’re ready to set up TestTrack in your production environment or if you want to share your TestTrack evaluation with your team, enabling access for new users is straightforward. This video provides a step-by-step walk-through for the various ways you can manage your TestTrack user accounts. You’ll learn how to:

1. Create users through the Seapine License Server, including setting up LDAP integration.
2. Add users to a TestTrack project.
3. Create local customers and give them access to a project.

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TestTrack 2010.1, which was released in April 2010, includes folder enhancements that were specifically designed to help you organize and manage the work in a project release, sprint, or iteration. Folders now have a type associated with them, which means you can create custom folders for different purposes. I am going to focus on one folder option — release planning.

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To effectively evaluate TestTrack for your team, we recommend that you download and install the 30-day evaluation. You can install the TestTrack client and server on your local PC, there is no need for a heavy-duty server during the evaluation phase. Continue reading…

If you haven’t discovered the list window enhancements added in TestTrack 2010.1, you definitely should check them out. There are a lot of time-saving improvements, including the ability to customize list window text appearance, shortcuts for working with subsets of items, and more available data.

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While planning the TestTrack 2010.1 release, we talked to a variety of customers and soon realized that every team uses story points slightly differently. Most commonly, the teams use story points as a high-level estimate of the difficulty of a specific task or work item. TestTrack is flexible in allowing you to manage stories in a variety of ways, we’ve outlined a straight-forward process here  to get you started. As you become familiar with using story points, feel free to tweak your TestTrack configuration to better meet the need of your team.

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TestTrack TCM Test Runner is a light-weight web client that allows testers to easily run manual tests and record results using a browser, eliminating the need to install and continuously update native TestTrack clients for QA team members who only need access to test runs.

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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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