We’re very excited to release beta versions of our Seapine ALM suite of products, including TestTrack Pro, TestTrack RM, TestTrack TCM, Surround SCM and QA Wizard Pro! The betas are open to anyone, so feel free to click through and try them out. If you do try them out, please leave feedback so that we can continue to improve our product offerings.
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TestTrack RM
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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TestTrack includes Microsoft Outlook integration, which allows you to add Microsoft Outlook emails as new defects, requirements, requirement documents, or test cases or as tracked email to existing items in TestTrack. This short video shows you how to set up the integration during the TestTrack client installation and how to create a new defect directly from Outlook. It also includes an example of how to attach an email to an existing item in TestTrack.
Seapine Solutions Evangelist, Peter Varhol, was recently interviewed about requirements traceability by Mike Lippis for the Outlook Series. The “Strengthened Traceability Drives Greater Quality & Communication” podcast is now available.
Peter and Mike discuss several aspects of requirements management, and why traceability is so important to the software development process these days. Following are a few interesting nuggets, if you don’t have time to listen to the 46-minute interview:
01:30 - Definition of requirements traceability
09:50 - How to make traceability automatic
21:55 - How to know if your traceability strategy measures up
30:00 - Information about managing requirements traceability with TestTrack
Have an opinion on traceability, or a story about how your team uses traceability to improve quality? We’d love to hear it—leave us a comment!
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Thanks to everyone who joined us for our Seapine ALM 2011.1 What’s New webinar. The recording is now available on YouTube if you missed the webinar or want to watch it again. Q&A from the session follows.
Google Apps for Business is becoming very popular and a large number of companies use Gmail for business. This allows you to use your own domain but Google runs your email server for you.
If you also use TestTrack, you can use your Gmail hosting service to send TestTrack notifications via email or even import emails if you use the TestTrack email tracking feature.
Share on Technorati . del.icio.us . Digg . Reddit . Slashdot . Facebook . StumbleUponFolder types in TestTrack is a great feature that enables you to set a number of folder options, including choosing the folder icon that is displayed in the TestTrack folder view. Folder icons help you easily recognize specific folder types, as shown in the following screenshot.
TestTrack RM includes support for importing requirements from Microsoft Word documents. You can specify how your requirements are stored in your Word document to ensure proper parsing of your document. You can also preview your requirements before they are imported.
In this video, I’ll show you how to import your Microsoft Word documents into TestTrack RM.
Interactive filters makes finding items in TestTrack quick and easy. With interactive filters, users are prompted to select criteria when a filter is applied. This means you can create a single filter to show items in any workflow state, for example. This video walks you through creating and using interactive filters.
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TestTrack filters can solve a number of requests from finding to sorting data, filters also play a big role in automation rules. Filters can be published as RSS feeds, can be interactive and dynamic, and can also be used in most list views, reports and folders.
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