Archive for April 2016

When the FDA Sheriff Comes to Town - You Need to be Ready!

April 29th, 2016

In this morning's Washington Post, there was an article about 'The new sheriff in town' describing how the new biotechnology and drug screening startups in Silicon Valley are colliding with the conservative, formal testing philosophy of the United States Food & Drug Administration (FDA).

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Reflections of the Diversity of Testing in NYC

April 28th, 2016

We had the privilege of attending the first Test Masters Academy Conference in NYC this week. The focus of the event was on Test Management Agility, with speakers providing insights from companies as diverse as Johnson&Johnson and Spotify. We thought it would be interesting to recant some of our key takeaways from the event.

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Spira 5 Beta - Take a Look at Test Execution in Action

April 19th, 2016

Thanks again to all of our loyal customers that provided feedback and suggestions for the test execution screens in SpiraTest / SpiraTeam. We have released a beta version with the new screens. Please take a look and let us know what you think.

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Whose Customer Support is it Anyway?

April 14th, 2016

When you need multiple tools to get your work done there are multiple points of failure. You want to get stuff done, but what if widget A suddenly stops talking to widget B? Is it because of widget A? Widget B? The plugin that gets them to play nicely together? What do you have to do to get things fixed? Read More

The Doctor and his TARDIS?

April 11th, 2016

One of our customers recently wrote to us asking why some of our product demos include URLs containing the words 'doctor' and 'tardis' and wondering what the connection was between SpiraTest and the cult BBC Show Dr. Who. This article explains all!

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Using Rapise to Easily Select Items in an HTML Grid

April 7th, 2016

During our conversations with customers we have found that a common need when using Rapise to test web applications is to be able to easily and quickly match a specific item in a grid/table of results without worrying about the order or position of the item. This article provides a neat new feature added in Rapise 4.0 to make this common task easier.

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