New version of TFS Bug Item Synchronizer released.

Major changes from version 2.4 are following:

New internal database version Removed support for TFS2005 client. TFS2005 server is still supported via TFS2008 SP1 (and above) client Fixes for html and plaintext conversions related to QC11 Support for value map for ErrorDB value from QC Support for TFS workitem user name fields for cases when there are more than one user with same display name (for TFS2010 only) ValueMap and CompareRule have now option for IgnoreCase, default is still false Full Releases Notes and TFS Bug Item Synchronizer setup can be downloaded from here: http://www.juvander.fi/Downloads.aspx.

Setup includes 14 days fully functional trial version which we also give support.

TFS Bug Item Synchronizer can be purchased from http://www.juvander.fi/Order.aspx.

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As time passes, it is time again to release a new version of this popular tool.

Biggest change this time is internal: TFS Bug Item Synchronizer is getting new internal database.

Previous one had couple of issues that especially big installations are suffering from. These are things like

Fragmentation. As time goes by, database gets fragmented to to defragment database file takes time. On some cases this was taking 30-60 minutes which is quite a lot when it is done at DBService startup. File size. Database file size was on some cases growing quite a lot, especially if defragmentation was not run on regular intervals. So to fix these, we had to change internal database and it actually gives some more possibilities as well, but those are coming a bit later on.

Upgrade from version 2.4 and below old database to new need to be done extra carefully, all needed steps are already documented in the Release Notes...

OffRoad 2.8 is now available.

This release has following changes:

• Internal enhancements
• Test Run parameter handling
• Temporary Test Set to select test cases from multiple test sets for execution
• Capability to select which defects are uploaded back to server
• External integration enhancements
• Custom filter for downloading defects
• Performance Improvements

OffRoad setup and Release notes and  can be found at downloads section. Setup package is full installation and includes also 14 days trial license.

OffRoad 2.8 can be purchased through http://www.juvander.fi/Purchase.aspx.

Our first community site to share information and provide forum for our users was launched back in June 2006 and was built using Telligent Community Server –product. License cost for initial purchase was 449 USD.

On 2009 it was already seen that the current CS2007 version was outdated and so there was an request sent to Telligent for an upgrade offer. Now the price was up to 3500 USD and decision was made to still continue with current version.

End of 2011 as new browsers and browser versions have been appearing CS2007 was no longer supporting these, only real supported browser was Internet Explorer which was not really enough for us.

Telligent was totally out of the picture, their price for the upgraded site was now up to 50000 GBP which was totally unacceptable for us!

What we had on our Community Server were Blogs, Forums and Downloads in use. Our own http://www.juvander.fi was running own custom developed ASP.NET pages, plan was to migrate all of these into one product.

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To show how Import Export Utility is used to export test cases with design steps follow this procedure.

Import Export Utility can be downloaded from here.

From startup screen select first Connect QC:



Fill in server url, login name and password and then Domain & Project:



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Minor update to TFS Bug Item Synchronizer for Quality Center.

Changes from version 2.3 are following:

Removed support for TestDirector 8.0 and Quality Center 8.2 Added support to include Related Item Links from TFS to Quality Center and direct Requirement – Defect links from Quality Center to TFS UpdateOtherField now accepts also valuemapname so that it is possible to define valuemap for these values as well Full Release Notes can be found in here: http://onroad.juvander.fi/Community/files/folders/documents/tags/TFS+Bug+Item+Synchronizer/Release+Notes/2.4/default.aspx

Installation includes 14 days fully functional trial version, full version can be purchased from http://www.juvander.fi/Order.aspx.

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OffRoad 2.7 is now available.

This release is minor release, mainly addressing supported server versions.

This release adds support for

Quality Center 11.0 and removes support for

Quality Center version 8.2 TestDirector 8.0 So OffRoad now supports:

IBM Rational Quality Manager Quality Center versions 10.0, 9.2 and 9.0 Full Release Notes can be found in here: OffRoad 2.7 Release Notes.

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We are happy to announce that OffRoad 2.6 is now available.

This version adds now support for IBM Rational Quality Manager.

So OffRoad now supports:

IBM Rational Quality Manager Quality Center versions 10.0, 9.2, 9.0 and 8.2 TestDirector version 8.0 OffRoad makes test execution possible in disconnected environments. This means that test planning and...

Next major version of popular TFS Bug Item Synchronizer for Quality Center is now released.

TFS Bug Item Synchronizer is an tool which allows testing and development teams to work together using tools built for their usage. Testers enter defects in Quality Center and when defect is created and updated into TFS, developer can fix it, link all changes to it and mark it as fixed. After this the tester will continue process on Quality Center side to verify the fix. Similar to this developer can create a work item and have it synchronized over to Quality Center for testers to verify the fix.

With this tool it is possible to synchronize both Quality Center Defects and Requirements with TFS work items.

Testers will only need to use Quality Center and developers TFS, no need to have both applications on both teams as this tool works totally on the server side.

This version supports

Quality Center 11.0 Patch 1 Quality Center 10.0 Quality Center 9.2  Quality Center 9.0 ...

Import Export Utility 2.0 for Quality Center has now new more intuitive user interface to help users to

Export Requirements, Test Cases and Design Steps from Quality Center into Excel 2003/2007/2010, xml and local database formats Import from local database back to Quality Center project Import of data works also between different Quality Center servers, server versions and projects Export and Import works on manual test cases and supports also Design Steps with Linked Test cases, parameters and attachments (attachments only using local database format) Requirements can be selected from requirement tree (with or without Linked Test Cases), Test Cases either from Test Plan tree or by Test Sets.

This versions works with

Quality Center 9.0, 9.2, 10.0 and 11.0

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