TestTrack 2010.1, which was released in April 2010, includes folder enhancements that were specifically designed to help you organize and manage the work in a project release, sprint, or iteration. Folders now have a type associated with them, which means you can create custom folders for different purposes. I am going to focus on one folder option — release planning.
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Works with Surround SCM 2010 and later
Will not work with Surround SCM 2009 and earlier
This is an example of how to use the Surround SCM API to synchronize a local folder with a repository. It came as a request from one of our documentation folks, who use a tool to produce our HTML files and then need to pump the output of that tool into an existing repository.
Basically, we get a list of the files and directories and check in any existing files, add new files or repositories, and delete old files and repositories.
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Did you know that you can use folders to bookmark items in TestTrack ?
Just like you can bookmark a favorite page in your web browser, TestTrack’s folders let you keep track of your favorite issues, defects, test cases, and test runs. OK, so maybe favorite isn’t the word you would use to describe these types of items, but the fact remains that it’s awfully darn convenient to be able to quickly file away special items so they are easy to find later.
There are lots of situations where this can come in handy.
- Say you are in the middle of prioritizing newly entered bugs and there are one or two that you want to come back to after you’ve done a little research.
- It’s time to do some release planning and you want to tag items for the next maintenance release.
- The defect you are reviewing seems familiar to you, but your next meeting is about to start. Bookmark the issue so you can do a search for similar items when you get back from the meeting. Maybe you will want to merge or link the related issues.
Since TestTrack lets you file an item in more than one folder, you have lots of flexibility to organize issues in ways that make sense to you.
What do I have to do?
Create a folder (or multiple folders if you want to get fancy) that will contain your bookmarked items. Check out this Folders Wiki article for more details.
That’s it. Now you are ready to use the Add to Folder… command when you want to add items to your bookmark folder!
Thanks to one of our great TestTrack customers, Dave Kellogg, CSDP, Software Engineer, The Raymond Corporation, for suggesting I do a blog entry on this topic!
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Guiffy is the integrated tool provided with Surround SCM that is used for viewing differences and merging of text files.
A nice feature provided by Guiffy is the ability to compare two folders. This allows you to select any two folders and compare them recursively. You can also drill down to a specific file and view differences of this file between the two folders.
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