Software Planner New Release - version 9.4.2

We just issued a new release of Software Planner to production (Release 9.4.2) and it has several new features:

• JIRA Integration – Allows synching of JIRA issues with Software Planner defects. Issues can originate or be updated in either system and will be synced.
  Movie: http://www.softwareplanner.com/guidedtours/edgeui/Camtasia.asp?filename=SPJIRAIntegration
  User’s Guide: http://www.softwareplanner.com/UsersGuide_swpSyncJIRA.pdf
  
• HP Quick Test Pro (QTP) Integration – Allows automation engineers to run QTP scripts and have the run results appear in Software Planner lists and dashboards.
  Movie: http://www.softwareplanner.com/guidedtours/edgeui/Camtasia.asp?filename=SPQTPIntegration_Overview
  User’s Guide: http://www.softwareplanner.com/UsersGuide_QTP.pdf
  
• Subversion Integration – Allows automation teams to associate subversion source code with Software Planner requirements, test cases and/or defects.
  Movie: http://www.softwareplanner.com/GuidedTours/EdgeUI/Camtasia.asp?FileName=SVNIntegration
  User’s Guide: http://www.softwareplanner.com/UsersGuide_SVN.pdf
  
• Microsoft Project Integration – Allows importing and exporting projects from Software Planner to/from Microsoft Project.
  Movie: http://www.softwareplanner.com/guidedtours/edgeui/Camtasia.asp?filename=ImportMSProject
  
• Record Locking Feature – Automatically detects if others are editing a record to prevent data collisions.
  Movie: http://www.softwareplanner.com/guidedtours/edgeui/Camtasia.asp?filename=RecordLocking

Optimizing your Test Efforts during the QA cycle

This month's newsletter is the 4th in a 5 part series entitled "Uniting your Automated and Manual Test Efforts". This month we focus on optimizing your Test Efforts during the QA cycle. The topic addressed are:

1. How to determine how your QA cycle is progressing
2. How to determine your defect resolution rate
3. How to use metrics to determine the stability and production readiness of your software release.

You can see the newsletter at: http://www.softwareplanner.com/newsletters/newsletter_2010_09_sp.htm