I was, as always on Wednesday, finishing up watching the latest Zero Punctuation review over at the The Escapist when I noticed that they had a new video that is a tour of Epic Games. Epic happens to use TestTrack Pro and it’s always fun to see the inside of a place where our stuff plays a part.

Well, unless the place is a sausage factory. Somehow I think that would ruin pork products for me and that’s way too high a price to pay.

Anyhow, below is the video (slight off color language, consider yourself warned) and here is the associated written article. The joint looks cool and I’m happy that they use our product. All that being said however, I suddenly have the urge to go blow something up…

A couple of weeks ago I did a little write up of my favorite features from Surround SCM 2008.1. Unfortunately, afterward I kept getting requests from the TestTrack guys about when I was going to do the same thing for that product. Seriously, night and day, just question after question.

Well, not really, but I’m sure they thought about it. Maybe they forgot to send an email.

Or call.

They never call.

*Sigh*

Anyhow, I had been planning on doing it when the next significant release came out. That all changed this morning.

Jeff and I were talking about the whole single vs. double space after period boondoggle when he mentioned the new TestTrack release, version 2008.1.1. Typically I don’t think much about bugfix releases unless there is some bug that is really annoying me. He claimed, however, that there were two new features in this one. Feeling skeptical I fired up the client to have him show me what had been added.

Oh sweet mother of all that is good in the world hallelujah. I knew these things were coming but I didn’t know it was going to happen now. It’s kind of like finding out that Easter has been moved to today and that the Easter Bunny has left you a basket containing a BMW.

Here is what the defect overview tab looked like before. Notice that the description section has all the line breaks removed making it hard to read for text with lots of paragraphs.

He is what it looks like with the brand new “Show Line Breaks” checkbox checked. That is so much better I can hardly explain it.

The other feature is similar and can be found on the Workflow tab. If you have lots of automation rules set up (which you should) this list can get littered with System Comment items making it hard to see the stuff that a real flesh and blood person did.

But if you uncheck the “Show System Comments” checkbox you get just the actions from the living.

At this point I could feel the eyes water up a bit, but I had to keep my composure since I had someone standing over my shoulder. You know how it is, I’ve to go protect the street cred and all. I’ll leave it at that, there’s really nothing else to be said. Go download 2008.1.1 right now and improve your life. You owe it to yourself.