The more test cases fail due to synchronization faults the less confidence you will have in your test automation! Synchronization is a critical issue with any test automation scripts. You may think that synchronization of test script actions is a built-in ability of today’s functional testing...

SilkTest provides general support for WPF and Winforms, which means that all controls included in the .Net framework are supported. The support of a control is on the hand the recognition of that control during recording and on the other hand the provided API for interacting with the control. Many...

Micro Focus is pleased to announce the general availability of SilkCentral Test Manager 2011. SilkCentral Test Manager is the Micro Focus solution for continuous quality management, representing the hub from which all other quality activities need to be managed and scheduled. SilkCentral Test Manager...

Probably one of the first things that grabbed your attention when you learned about Agile development is the notion of standup meetings. Standups are brief, daily status meetings in which team members bring each other up to speed on what they've completed since the last meeting and what they plan...

Vision statements for agile projects should be easy to write, right? After all, they need to be short. Short enough to scrawl on a cocktail napkin or pitch to an investor during an elevator ride. Besides, if your project is already in development, funded, and staffed, somebody must already have a vision...

As part of the StarTeam 12.0 launch activities, a few of the team headed across to Las Vegas to the Gartner Application Architecture, Development & Integration Summit , where we spent time talking with customers, partners and analysts. One of our partners, Tasktop , was a silver sponsor at the event...

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Caliber 10.1 ensures requirements clarity from inception to production. The latest release of Caliber 10.1 sees the requirements definition and management tools, CaliberRM and CaliberRDM, become deeply integrated to increase collaboration between teams, improve the reaction time to changing requirements...

Quick video outlining what it takes to empower developers to work on their own projects while using the same core files.

A quick video outlining how to connect to a StarTeam server using the StarTeam client.

A quick video to show how easy it is to jump start a StarTeam project using the StarTeam client

When a team first starts to use Agile methodology, the concept of story points can be difficult to accept and understand. Story points aren't an absolute value and that can be stressful for people who prefer concrete timelines and deadlines. They are a measure of effort rather than time. Since...

A story starts as an idea to improve the functionality or appearance of a product. It doesn't have to be a completely defined idea. It can just be a reminder of an idea that can be brainstormed and defined at a later date. For example, a QA engineer who is adding the same standard tasks to...

The Agile Manifesto seems to go against the traditional role of Quality Assurance (QA). The Agile Manifesto (from http://agilemanifesto.org/ ) states We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others to do it. Through this work we have come to value Individuals...

Silk Central 12.0.1 has now been released and is GA providing localisation of the GUI to support French . All core functionality of Silk Central remains the same as Silk Central 12.0 Release. For trial download of Silk Central please access through: http://www.borland.com/products/SilkCentral...

Compared to traditional software development projects, the role of test automation in agile development projects is more important and significantly different. The close collaboration between various stakeholders in agile software projects also changes the way that quality, and with it testing, is managed...

The attached document as been produced to give our customers the current upgrade path to the latest StarTeam server. The document also has direct FTP links to all the versions that you might need to complete the full upgrade.

Caliber 11.0 release brings elements of CaliberRM and CailberRDM under one solution. Caliber 11.0 is organized into three intuitive components, Author, Visualize and Review to give users a comprehensive end to end Requirement Definition and management solution. Watch this short video on Cailber 11...