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AccuRev Announces GitCentric For Large Scale Git Usage

Software Development Tools Directory - Wed, 04/17/2013 - 15:34
AccuRev announced the latest version of GitCentric (formally known as Kando), bridging the Git revision control system with AccuRev’s intelligent stream approach to enterprise software development.
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Altova Announces a Cutting Edge XML and XBRL Processor, RaptorXML

Software Development Tools Directory - Wed, 04/17/2013 - 15:16
Altova® announced at the XBRL26 Conference in Dublin, Ireland, a ground-breaking new XML and XBRL validation and processing server called RaptorXML. RaptorXML is highly cross-platform compatible and takes advantage of today's ubiquitous m ...
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built.io, the Enterprise Mobile App Development Platform

Software Development Tools Directory - Wed, 04/17/2013 - 15:14
raw engineering, inc., a top enterprise app developer for multibillion dollar companies today announced the launch of built.io, the only mobile backend and application development platform built from the ground up, for enterprises and enterprise ...
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Share your Ranorex Report using any Browser

Ranorex.com: Latest News - Wed, 04/17/2013 - 15:01

This blog post will discuss the possibilities to share your automatically generated Ranorex Reports over your local network or via email. There is no need to have Ranorex installed on the machine you will open the shared report. This is possible because the Ranorex Report format is based on XSL, XML and HTML.

Share Report

Performing the following very simple adaptions, you will be able to open the report file using any common browser.

Share via Mail

To share a Ranorex Report you can manually compress all files necessary for reporting and attach the corresponding package to your mail. Or you can simply activate the creation of a zipped report file and attach the generated zipped report file (*.rxzlog) to your mail. These two mentioned methods require that the Ranorex Report Viewer is installed on the machine receiving the shared Report.

To overcome this requirement simply change the extension form “*.rxlog” to “*.html” in the Test Suites properties pane.

Change Report Extendion To HTML

After that, you will be able to open the generated report file using any common browser as well as compress all files necessary for reporting and attach them to an email.

Share Over Local Network

Next to sharing your Ranorex Reports via mail, you can also share them over your company network. You can for example use the Microsoft Internet Information Service (IIS) for doing so.

In Ranorex Studio right-click on the project you want to share the report of and choose “Open Folder in Explorer”. Right-click the “bin” folder and open the “Properties” dialog. Switch to the “Security” tab and click on “Edit” button.

Open Permissions

Click on Add, enter “Authenticated Users” in the “Names” edit field and confirm the added permissions by pressing the “OK” button in all opened dialogs.

Add Permission
Define a folder in your Test Suite settings, where the report files should be stored at and change the report file extension from “*.rxlog” to “*.html”.

Change Report Filename

After doing so, add a website linking to the defined Content Directory in Internet Information Service Manager.

Add Website To IIS

To correctly display your report data you have to add the extension “.data” to the list of “MIME-Types”. To do so, open the “MIME Types” settings dialog. Add a MIME Type for the file name extension “.data” with the type “application/xml”.

Add MIME Type data

Enable “Directory Browsing” for displaying all generated report files on your website.

Enable Directory Browsing

Now you are able to view your report file over the network using all common browsers.

Shared Report

Conclusion

By performing these easy to follow steps you will be able to share your Ranorex Reports to any machine regardless of a Ranorex installation or even the operating system by opening them using any common browser. You can even share Ranorex Reports to mobile devices.

Share

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Apollo Group Speeds Performance with Oracle Engineered Systems

Oracle Database News - Wed, 04/17/2013 - 13:01
Higher Education Company Focused on Students' Services, Improves Query Speeds and Reduces Backup/Recovery Time with Oracle Exadata and Oracle’s Sun ZFS Storage Appliance /us/corporate/press/1934814 en
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Ranorex 4.0.3 released

Ranorex.com: Latest News - Wed, 04/17/2013 - 10:04
Ranorex 4.0.3 is now available and includes the following release notes: General changes/Features
  • Added support for Firefox 20
  • Added object recognition support for the Android action bar
  • Ranorex Report is now displayed correctly in all supported browsers
  • When Ranorex Studio needs to be restarted as admin, it now reopens the previously edited solution
Bugs
  • Fixed keyboard recording and abort key functionality when working remotely using VNC
  • Fixed the separator recorder action to capture focus when trying to navigate over it with the keyboard
  • Fixed inconsistency in formatting of values in RanoreXPaths for some attribute types (e.g. fonts)
  • Fixed editing of concatenated attribute values in the advanced RanoreXPath editor
  • Fixed Java tab panel visibility if selected index is not set correctly
  • The "Visible" attribute is now correctly "false" for web elements with style "visibility: hidden" in all browsers
  • Fixed object recognition for Chrome 27 and newer
  • Fixed cause for "pointer being freed was not allocated" error occurring in some instrumented iOS apps
  • Fixed an issue when instrumenting Android apps with complex activities
  • Fixed a geometry issue for Android elements when switching between landscape and portrait mode
  • Fixed communication exceptions showing up as Debug report messages caused by multiple started BitBridge processes
  • Fixed report message being logged by the PopupWatcher.WatchAndClick method referencing the wrong repository item
  • Fixed the initialization of the legacy 2.X report if Report.Setup is not called explicitly
  • Fixed the legacy 2.X report not logging screenshots or snapshots any more
  • Fixed Studio regarding all files with ".data" or no extension as reports and opening them if changed
  • Fixed possible unhandled exception in the test suite editor when data sources are reloaded
  • Fixed automatic update of namespaces in user code files on folder renaming
  • Fixed some cases where the properties pad was not correctly updated when switching between views in Ranorex Studio
  • Fixed rare exception being thrown by the debugger on breaking or stopping debugging
  • Fixed debugger sometimes not reacting to "Step Over" and "Step Into" actions any more
  • Fixed exception being thrown by the debugger if a source code file cannot be found
  • Fixed Ranorex Studio hanging when showing the desktop (Win+D shortcut) and the internal Spy is currently in "Edit" mode
  • Fixed problems in Ranorex Studio when adding items to project folders created in Visual Studio 2012
  • Fixed possible exceptions when opening and working with a recording not belonging to a project in Studio
  • Fixed an issue that Studio deleted code files of an external repository when linking it to a project
  • Fixed long initial delay when opening the context menu in the "Projects" pad for a TFS source controlled solution
  • Fixed possible exceptions in the SVN history view in Studio
  • Improved performance of code generation in Ranorex Studio
  • The new line characters \u2029 and \u2085 are now correctly escaped in generated code
  • Fixed namespace sometimes not being updated correctly when moving a recording to a folder
  • Fixed code generation for class files created in folders ending with a dot and numbers (e.g. "Folder.123")
  • Fixed a few cases where the test suite is not marked dirty after changes (module removed, variable renamed)
  • Fixed variable bindings being deleted if a module variable is deleted and added again
  • A warning is now shown if running a module group with unbound module variables
  • Fixed replacing of report name placeholders for the test suite run configuration when running a test suite from the command line
  • Improved installation time for Ranorex setup (NGen task is now done asynchronously after the setup finishes)
  • Fixed the Ranorex License Server service sometimes not installing on machines not connected to the Internet
Download Ranorex version here.
(You can find a direct download link for the latest Ranorex version on the Ranorex Studio start page.)
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Progress® Apama® CEP Reaches Even Greater Speeds

Progress Software News - Wed, 04/17/2013 - 08:02
Progress® Apama® CEP Reaches Even Greater Speeds
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New release of Visible Analyst

Software Development Tools Directory - Tue, 04/16/2013 - 18:56
Visible Systems is a leading provider of automated modeling tools for developing complex software and information systems. All previous releases of Visible Analyst include integrated modeling capabilities including: Yourdon, Gane & Sarson, ID ...
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Codice Software Launches First Language-Aware Source Code Merge Tool

Software Development Tools Directory - Tue, 04/16/2013 - 17:28
Codice Software, creators of the enterprise oriented Distributed Version Control System (DVCS) called Plastic SCM, today launched Semantic Merge, the world's first language-aware source code merge tool. Using advanced merge technology built i ...
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Leading Software Industry Executive, Andre M Boisvert, Joins Actian Corporation Board of Directors

Actian Corporation (Ingres) Press Releases - Tue, 04/16/2013 - 11:19

Redwood City, Calif. – April 16, 2013 – Actian Corporation (“Actian”), a global data management leader with one of the most advanced and comprehensive big data solution portfolios including the record breaking Vectorwise analytic database, RushAnalytics for Hadoop acceleration and Actian DataCloud for cloud and on premise data integration, today announced that Andre M Boisvert has joined the board of directors for Actian.

“Andre is a strategic addition to the Actian board. He brings a unique mix of executive leadership, technical savviness and entrepreneurial experience, which collectively will serve Actian’s future expansion plans well,” stated Terry Garnett, chairman of the board of directors, forActian.

Boisvert started his career with IBM in 1976 where he spent 13 years. While at IBM, Boisvert held senior management positions in sales, marketing and research & development. After leaving IBM, Boisvert held executive positions in some of the most respected software companies in the industry, such as Cognos Inc. and Oracle Corporation where he was senior vice president of worldwide marketing and was a member of Oracle’s Management committee.

In 2000, Boisvert was recruited as president and COO of SAS Institute Inc., the world’s largest privately held software company with revenues approaching $3 billion annually, with the mission of bringing the company public. When the plans of an IPO were abandoned, Boisvert followed one of SAS’s investments by becoming chairman and CEO of Sagent Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: SGNT). In April of 2004, Boisvert successfully completed the sale of Sagent Technologies Inc. to Group 1 Software Inc. (NASDAQ:GSOF).

In March 2002, Boisvert became a director of VA Software (NASDAQ:LNUX), the creator and owner of SourceForge, the largest worldwide repository of open source projects. During his four year term at VA Software, Boisvert developed a wealth of knowledge about open source projects and their applicability to solving real world problems.

This experience led Boisvert to co-found Pentaho Corporation in October of 2004, the world’s most popular commercial open source business intelligence platform. Boisvert then went on to invest and serve as an advisor/director of several other leading commercial open source companies, REvolution Analytics, Zenoss Inc. (systems management), Infobright (data warehousing) and Zend Corporation (the PHP company).

Boisvert is also chairman of Palamida Corporation, a leader in Software Composition Analysis for intellectual property & security risk management, vice-chairman of River Logic Inc., a leader in advance & predictive analytics, director of Clario Analytics Inc., a cloud based analytics solution aimed at companies using multi-channels to market their products and services, and Transera Communications Inc., a cloud-based analytics solutions for contact centers.

In 2011, Boisvert joined the board of directors of London based Emailvision Ltd., a leader in email and social marketing, and Portland based Webtrends Corporation, a leader in digital marketing analytics. In 2012 Boisvert became a director of Issuer Direct (OTC:ISDR), a leading provider of corporate regulatory compliance solutions and services.

Boisvert previously served as chairman of UBmatrix Inc., the creator of the eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL), until it was acquired by Edgar Online (NASDAQ:EDGR) and Odyssey Financial Technologies Inc., a Swiss-based private wealth and asset management software company, until it was acquired by Temenos Finance Luxembourg SARL (SIX:TEMN).

“With the recent acquisition of Pervasive Software, Actian is incredibly well-positioned with its portfolio of next generation solutions for big data and cloud integration to rapidly becoming a disruptive force in the industry,” said Andre Boisvert “I look forward to contributing to Actian’s next phase of growth.”

Learn more about Actian’s acquisition of Pervasive Software: http://www.actian.com/press/actian-pervasive

About Actian: Take Action on Big Data

Actian Corporation enables organizations to transform big data into business value with data management solutions to connect, analyze, and take automated Action across their business operations. Actian’s innovative portfolio of solutions for big data include cloud integration for frictionless connection to any data; analytical solutions specifically engineered to handle the extreme speed and scale of data intensive computing; Action Apps for automated action on business events as they happen and managed B2B exchanges that automate business processes in select industries. Headquartered in Redwood City, Actian helps clients worldwide manage and understand their business operations through offices in Austin, New York, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Amsterdam and Melbourne. Stay connected with Actian Corporation on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.

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WANdisco Announces New Releases of Apache Subversion

Software Development Tools Directory - Mon, 04/15/2013 - 17:30
WANdisco, a provider of high-availability software for global enterprises to meet the challenges of Big Data and distributed software development, today announced that fully tested and certified binaries for open source Apache Subversion releases ...
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ActiveState Connects Stackato to Oracle

Software Development Tools Directory - Mon, 04/15/2013 - 17:28
ActiveState®, whose software enables developers and enterprises to innovate from code to cloud, today announced the release of Stackato® 2.10, the next evolution of the company's groundbreaking private Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) tec ...
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Micro Focus Delivers Mainframe Modernization Solution

Software Development Tools Directory - Mon, 04/15/2013 - 16:53
Micro Focus, the leading provider of enterprise application modernization, testing and management solutions, has released Micro Focus Enterprise Developer for IBM® zEnterprise®, enabling customers to optimize all aspects of IBM mainframe ...
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ParElastic Raises $5.7M in Series A Round to Drive Cloud Database Scalability

Software Development Tools Directory - Mon, 04/15/2013 - 16:21
ParElastic Corporation, an emerging leader in cloud data management, announced today that it has raised $5.7M in a Series A round financing led by General Catalyst Partners. The company's existing investors including Point Judith Capital, Com ...
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MarkLogic Secures $25 Million Financing for Enterprise-Grade NoSQL Solutions

Software Development Tools Directory - Mon, 04/15/2013 - 16:07
MarkLogic Corporation, the provider of the only enterprise NoSQL database platform, today announced that it has closed a $25 million round of growth capital led by Sequoia Capital and Tenaya Capital, with participation from Northgate Capital. Ma ...
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McObject's Database Port to IBM Platforms

Software Development Tools Directory - Mon, 04/15/2013 - 15:56
McObject®, developer of the eXtremeDB® Financial Edition database management system and related product family, announced it has added a "true blue" option to its list of supported platforms: the DBMS is now offered for IBM's AIX oper ...
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Elvior at Nordic Testing Days 2013

Elvior - Mon, 04/15/2013 - 11:46


Elvior is supporting Nordic Testing Days 2013 held in Tallinn from 5th - 7th of June. During the conference Kullo Raiend and Dean Felmly will demonstrate Elvior's solution for automated model-based web appliNordic Testing Days 2013cation testing. The workshop also includes a demonstration of a working example and a instruction how to apply this approach to a web interface.

Learn more about the workshop here on Nordic Testing Days 2013 website.


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Secure Your Android Applications with ITTIA DB SQL

Software Development Tools Directory - Mon, 04/15/2013 - 07:49
When designing a mission-critical android application, developers of business intelligence solutions consider confidential data security as one of the top priorities in their software architecture. With the new release of ITTIA DB SQL, Android de ...
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HarePoint Thumbnails for SharePoint

Software Development Tools Directory - Mon, 04/15/2013 - 07:25
HarePoint Thumbnails for SharePoint allows you to display document and image thumbnails directly in SharePoint document or picture libraries. It provides the very convenient opportunity to preview documents instead of downloading and opening it.
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