The Seapine View

For developers that use the TestTrack SOAP SDK for integration or moving data between systems, a common issue is the ability to move HTML-formatted text. The TestTrack SOAP SDK supports HTML-formatted text, but you must add a small section of code to your SOAP application so TestTrack knows you are sending HTML-formatted text.

SOAP expects plain text for multi-line fields by default. Use the following to enable HTML-formatted text support:

ttsdk.formattedTextSupport(cookie, true);

To learn more, see step 9 in the Creating Defects how to scenario.

TestTrack includes Microsoft Visual Studio integration, which enables developers to work with defects, requirements, and test cases directly from the Visual Studio interface. Using one interface for your development and having the ability to also see any tasks assigned to you without needing to open another application means it takes less time to quickly address defects in code and mark the defect as fixed in TestTrack.

This video provides a quick overview of the TestTrack integration into Microsoft Visual Studio.

Thanks to everyone who joined us for the Zen Mastery of the TestTrack SDK webinar. The recording is now available if you missed the webinar or want to watch it again. Q&A from the session follows.

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Thanks to everyone who joined us for the Extending and Automating the TestTrack SDK webinar. The recording is now available if you missed the webinar or want to watch it again. Q&A from the session is below. You can also download the slides and sample code from this webinar.

The next session, Zen Mastery of the TestTrack SDK, is scheduled for October 20th. If you’re already registered for the series, you’ll receive the meeting information in the next few days.

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Thanks to everyone who joined us for the Getting Started With the TestTrack SDK webinar. The recording is now available if you missed the webinar or want to watch it again. Q&A from the session is below.

The next session, Extending and Automating the TestTrack SDK is scheduled for September 29. If you’re already registered for the series, you’ll receive the meeting information in the next few days.

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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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Web pages often include HTML elements that are not visible to the user. The web browser doesn’t render the elements on the screen, but it often includes their data in the GET and POST requests to the web server. The classic example is an INPUT element of type “hidden” used to embed name/value pairs. But any HTML element might have important attributes that you need to verify.

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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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CLI parsing got you down? Good news, we’ve got an API for that. We introduced a cross-platform C API with Java and .NET wrappers in the Surround SCM 2010.0 release. All three versions of the API have the same functionality – anything you can do from the C API you can do from either Java or .NET. “What can I do with the API?”, you ask. Well,  you can Add a file, Checkin, Checkout, Get, Undo Checkout, Search, Create repository, Create branch, Promote, Rebase, Manage labels, Add user, Rollback files, Share, Break share, and much more.

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Thomism, the philosophy of Thomas Aquinas, holds that all intellectual knowledge comes through the senses. (ST I.84.6) This opinion is in direct contradiction with Cartesianism, the philosophy of René Descartes, which doubts the validity of sensate-derived intellectual knowledge. The scientific method implicitly agrees with Aquinas because it too begins with using our senses in the form of observations. Scientists should derive hypotheses from observations, not metaphysical ideas existing purely in the mind.

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