This article enumerates the different skills you need to be self-certified at the training course: Spira iSP-100 fundamentals. The article includes the list of skills in a readable format as well as a downloadable spreadsheet that you can fill out.
Sometimes when using RemoteLaunch with a specific plugin (e.g. Selenium), you may get an error such as:
Could not load file or assembly 'WebDriver, Version=2.44.0.0,
Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' or one of its dependencies. The
system cannot find the file specified.
The way to debug this kind of error message is to enable Microsoft .NET Fusion Logging to get more information as to which dependency could not be loaded. This article explains how to turn this on.
When running Spira or KronoDesk on certain versions of Windows, when using the Czech or Slovak culture settings (or using Server default when Windows is installed in those languages) you may get unusual formatted dates.
When recording or playing back a test script on a new PC you may get an
error message that Rapise cannot find the path to "AllLibraries.json".This article provides instructions on how to fix the issue.
It
is a common situation that desktop applications written using Microsoft Windows Presentation Framework (WPF) will have complex layouts including tabs,
splitters and panels having custom grids and tables inside. This article provides help in dealing with such situations, including how to dynamically find items.
Since TaraVault is an add-on feature to either SpiraPlan or SpiraTeam (hereafter just 'Spira') you use the Spira web interface to handle the provisioning of new TaraVault projects. This articles explains the steps.
Inflectra can automatically upload your Subversion repository from
your current self-managed copy or from another provider. We accept
Subversion dump files (as produced by the "svnadmin dump" command)
either uncompressed or compressed as ZIP, GZIP, or BZip2.
Sometimes when you are using the SpiraTeam Importer for IBM Rational DOORS, you will get a DXL Runtime Error. This article explains the cause and provides the appropriate solution.
TaraVault allows you to create as many projects as you like. Each project has its own source code repository
(Subversion or Git) and its own linked Spira project. Therefore, each project has its
own source code URLs for the relevant repository type.
When testing web applications you will often need to use XPath to query the browser DOM for elements based on the scenario under test. This guide explains how you can use XPath queries with Rapise to make your browser testing more flexible and adaptive to changes on the screen.
During the course of investigating a technical support issue for SpiraTest, SpiraPlan, SpiraTeam or KronoDesk , the need may arise to run a query against your Microsoft
SQL database. To do so, you will use Microsoft SQL Server Management
Studio. If you did not install this when you installed SQL, you can
install it from the original source.
This is a common need, since you may have installed SpiraTest, SpiraPlan, SpiraTeam, or KronoDesk on a workstation to evaluate its capabilities and now need to install it on a production server for real use, but you don't want to lose all your existing data.
When testing Silverlight applications, you may find that Rapise fails to recognize the objects in the Silverlight app using the UIAutomation library. When using the Rapise Spy Tool, the whole app is identified as a single window. The objects such as a dropdown, buttons etc. inside the silverlight app are not individually recognized.
By design Rapise tries to record user activity on the highest
possible level. This makes recorded actions more readable and universal (often several lower-level user actions are combined)
Rapise uses a heuristics to
distinguish meaningful activity from low level actions. In some cases
this leads to a result that some user activity is not automatically
recorded (for example, a mouse click before entering text in a box).
There is a broad range of available UI platforms and libraries.
The variety of graphical widgets makes user interface robust and
beautiful. Rapise tries to recognize as much objects as possible.
However this range is growing and there are always widgets that are not
being recorded.
We need to call many common functions from a common library frequently.
Sometimes it is necessary to examine the state of an object. For example, determine if Toggle Button is pressed or not, Radio/Check Button is checked or not, etc. This guide describes a couple of different ways of achieving this.
We are planning on adding the ability to email the entire user list of the system and/or the membership of a specific project through the Spira UI, but for now this article explains how you can use a custom report to get a list of all the email addresses of the users of a Spira installation:
Sometimes when installing our products
you get error messages during the installation and it's necessary to provide Inflectra support personnel with detailed trace/logging information so that they can better support you. This article describes the steps necessary to enable Windows Installer (.msi) trace logging.
If you are running Spira v4.1 and you have the situation where you cannot create requirements or use case steps, please read this article for instructions on how to fix the issue.
When installing Spira on SQL Server 2012 (any edition) using Windows Authentication, you may receive an error message "Cannot Create User" (or similar) during the installation. This is because of a configuration change in SQL Server 2012 (as opposed to earlier versions). This article explains the step needed to prepare SQL Server 2012 for installing Spira v3.x. Newer versions of Spira will not need this step as the installer has been updated.
This article describes the process and steps for moving your SpiraTest, SpiraPlan or SpiraTeam database from one computer to another.
The article will refer to SpiraTeam, but it applies equally to the other products.