The Seapine View

QA Wizard Pro 2012 includes stress testing, which allows you to disable your network adapter or even limit the available memory while you are running your automated scripts. You’ll now be able to see how your application will respond when the host operating system runs out of disk space or loses network connectivity. You can also limit the amount of available memory.

Watch the following video to learn how to use stress testing and see an example of how an application’s behavior changes when certain stress features are enabled.

Being able to calculate a risk score for your items in TestTrack enables teams to make informed decisions when doing things like ranking or project prioritization. This video shows you how to create the fields you’ll need and how to set up risk score calculation inside TestTrack. It uses a generic risk calculation formula; I expect that, in some cases, you will use different formulas to calculate your risk score.

You can use calculated custom fields with workflow events. This video explains how to create a new calculated custom field that shows you the number of times a workflow event has been executed. The example in the video uses the Fix event, so you can see how many times an item has been fixed. It’s easy to apply the example to other workflow events.

Calculated fields, which were introduced in TestTrack 2012, have a variety of uses. In this video, I’ll show you how to create a custom field that calculates how long an item has been in its current workflow state. This example shows you some of the date functions available with calculated fields.

While a QA Wizard Pro load test is running, a great deal of activity is occurring on your web server. You can use built-in performance tools on the web server to better pinpoint the type of stress that load testing is causing your server. This information allows you to better identify which pieces of your web application may be causing your server the most pain.

Watch the following video to see how to create and correlate this data.

When load testing against a web application, you may want to create a set of scripts that simulates what activities most users perform. After using your web metrics to determine where users spend their time, you can create a script for each common user action. Using the QA Wizard Pro Load Testing options, you can then match up how often your scripts are run as compared to how many users actually perform those actions.

Watch the following video to see details on how to set this up.

Standardizing your test case layout and wording has always been hard to achieve. Starting with the 2012 release, if you use TestTrack TCM and QA Wizard Pro, you can now  record test case steps as you interact with an application in QA Wizard Pro. Recording steps saves time when you need to document longer tests and reduces the possibility of incorrect or incomplete test cases. It also means that steps, like clicking on a button or typing text in a text box, will always use the same wording in your test cases.

Watch the following video to see this new feature in action.

Thanks to everyone who joined us for our Scaling Agile for Project Teams webinar. The recording is now available on YouTube if you missed the webinar or want to watch it again. Q&A from the session follows.

Thanks to everyone who joined us for our Automating Traceability and Documentation webinar. The recording is now available on YouTube if you missed the webinar or want to watch it again. Q&A from the session follows.

Version control generally focuses on developers and code, but we often forget that other items, such as documentation, also need to be version controlled. Surround SCM includes Microsoft Office integration that enables users to work directly from Office applications, such as Microsoft Word, without needing to use the Surround SCM interface.

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.