The Seapine View

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

Agile Teams Self Organize for Project Success –Discusses what it means to be a self-organizing Agile team and touches on the ways that management can create an environment conducive to the collaborative nature of self-organizing teams.

Webinar Recording: What’s New in Seapine ALM 2012 –In case you missed it or just want a second look, check out the recording of Seapine’s latest webinar introducing  many of the over 100 new features included in the Seapine ALM 2012 product suite.

OPTI Medical Goes Agile with Seapine –Seapine’s Agile Services Team recently helped OPTI Medical in making the switch to Agile development—a very valuable change in such a highly-regulated industry as medical device manufacturing.

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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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OPTI Medical Systems is Seapine’s newest “Agile Badger.” The manufacturer of Class II medical devices recently completed Agile Essentials for Project Teams, a class offered by Seapine Agile Services.

As a company operating in the highly-regulated environment of medical device manufacturing, OPTI Medical faced significant challenges in adopting Agile practices. Bryan Prather, Software Development Manager for OPTI Medical, knew the entire product team needed training to be successful with Agile. The development team needed to get up to speed so they could begin applying Agile concepts in their development practices as soon as possible. Other members of the product team also needed to understand how the software process was going to change.

To see what Prather and the rest of the product team thought of the training, read our newest customer success story, OPTI Medical Systems Trains for Agile [PDF].

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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