The Seapine View

There were many updates to our blog in January. Here is our monthly recap:

How I Use Surround SCM: Working Directory Differences –Learn more about enhanced working directory differences in Surround SCM 2012, and how they help one user remember to add new files to Surround.

Using Separate Configurations for Surround SCM Mainline Branches – Learn how to get more granular control over your mainline branches in Surround SCM 2012.

Naked Agile Helps Students Understand What Becoming Agile Really Means—The first of a three part series, this entry answers the question, “What is Agile anyway?”

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The January 2012 issue of The Seapine View Bulletin is now available. The newsletter includes Seapine news, product announcements, upcoming events, product tips, and more. Subscribe to stay up-to-date on the latest Seapine news and information.

Seapine’s kicking off the New Year (okay, the Chinese New Year) with a completely revamped web site! Click on over to www.seapine.com and check out our new layout and features.

We’ve loaded the site with new content and reworked the navigation to make it all easier to find. You’ll also see these changes:

• Home Page – The home page has been redesigned to give you quicker access to the latest content on our site. You’ll find easy access to customer stories, news, and event info.
• Solutions – The solutions pages have more industry-specific information, and we’ve also added solution pages for each area of the product development lifecycle our products address. In addition, we included a set of solutions to address Agile, traceability, and test-driven development.
• Events – We’ve been attending more trade shows lately, so we’ve put together a page to tell you which shows we’ll be at and what we’ll be doing there. Stop by a show, grab your Seapine swag, and see what’s new with TestTrack, Surround SCM, and QA Wizard Pro!
• Videos and Blog Entries – The solutions and product pages now include more video and blog entry links. We have been busy creating informative content and the new web site does a better job of showcasing it.

Explore our new site and let us know what you think! (And yes, we’re still working out the kinks, so if  you see anything that looks a little wonky, please let us know that, too.)

Seapine is proud to help sponsor Software Quality Days 2012 in Vienna, Austria. Seapine will also be exhibiting and presenting at the conference, which takes place January 17-19 at the Austria Trend Hotel Savoyen Vienna.

Peter Varhol, Seapine Solution Evangelist, will give a presentation on “Integrating Testing into Agile Development.” Peter will talk about testing and the role of testers in Agile methodologies, with a focus on integrating testing into an Agile practice. He’ll examine traditional testing practices and how those practices should adapt to achieve the goals of a chosen Agile methodology.

Martin Kochloefl, Seapine Solutions Consultant, will present “Guidelines for Software Testers in an Agile Era,” in which he explains how both testing and the role of testers change in an Agile development environment. Martin will discuss how managers can help testing teams adapt to those changes, with the goal of effectively integrating testing with development to create one cohesive team that consistently delivers quality software.

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There were many updates to our blog in December. Here is our monthly recap:

Ten Ways You Know You Need a New Approach to Test Management—Highlights some common ways for a team to identify when they have outgrown their current test case management system.

Seapine ALM 2012 Betas Now Available—TestTrack, Surround SCM, and QA Wizard Pro betas are all open and available for you to try out! Some of the highlights of this release include calculated fields in  TestTrack, improved support for offline changes in Surround SCM, and Google Chrome support in QA Wizard Pro.

Video: Simulating User Behavior with QA Wizard Pro Load Testing—Learn how to use a mix of scripts and web load testing options to emulate a variety of user types.

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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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There were many updates to our blog on November. Here is our monthly recap:

Three Quick Ways to Tweak the Default Requirements Workflow – 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.

Collaborative Agile Task Board Boosts TestTrack – Shows how easy the Agile Task Board is when using it in TestTrack.

Webinar Recording – Agile XXL: Scaling Agile for Project Teams – Discusses the people, process, and tools that must be in harmony before you can successfully scale an enterprise Agile team.

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There were many updates to the blog in October. Here is our monthly recap:

Working with HTML-formatted Text in the TestTrack SDK – Explains how the TestTrack SOAP SDK supports HTML-formatted text.

Internal Displacement – Explains how QA Wizard Pro’s .Net invocation technology can come in handy when dealing with third-party controls and technologies.

Webinar Recording – Requirements and Agile: Keeping up with Change – Explains how to bridge gaps between user stories and requirements and reduce documentation needs while maintaining a minimal level of formal requirements for validation and traceability.

Video: Surround SCM and Microsoft Office Integration – This video shows you how the integration works and how to do a few basic things, including viewing file history, viewing differences between document versions, and merging different versions of a document.

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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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