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Adding uTest to uberSVN

Published by jthornsby on January 20, 2012 in General, New Product, uberSVN and WANdisco. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , .

Earlier this week we announced an exciting addition to uberSVN and the uberAPPS store: uTest, offering a range of crowdsourced testing services for web, desktop and mobile applications. uTest covers all the major operating systems, and is backed by a community of over 45,000 on-demand professional testers from 180 countries. Available in two packages, uTest services can be purchased through uberSVN’s built-in uberAPPS app store, making crowdsourced software testing easy and convenient for all uberSVN users. In this tutorial, we’ll show you exactly how to bring uTest’s functionality into your uberSVN installation.

  • To get started, select the ‘uberApps’ tab from within uberSVN to be taken to the app store, where you will see the uTest option. Click on the ‘More info’ button.

  • On this page, you can find out more about the uTest services offered through WANdisco. To purchase uTest, click the ‘Buy’ button.

  • On this page, select which package you wish to purchase. You can can choose from two packages:

Bronze

1) 5 professional testers located throughout the US and Canada.
2) Testing across the most popular OS versions, browsers or devices relevant to your app.
3) Real-time communication with your testing team.

Silver

1) 10 professional testers located throughout the US and Canada.
2) Testing across the most popular OS versions, browsers or devices relevant to your app.
3) Real-time communication with your testing team.
4) Online technical support from a uTest project manager.

When you are ready, click ‘Proceed.’

  • You will now be taken to the purchase confirmation page. When you are ready, click the ‘Pay Now’ button.

  • Following successful payment, you will notice an ‘Active’ tab next to uTest in the Manage Apps page. You have successfully subscribed to uTest services!

  • From the Manage APPS tab, select uTest. You will be able to configure user access from this screen. Select whether you wish uTest services to be available to all users, or only visible to a named few.

  • Once you have logged into the uTest app, you will be taken to the following uTest iFrame tab generation and login area. (Note that your login details will be sent to you via email.)

  • You are now logged into uTest. From this screen, you can place orders, and see an overview of previously ordered tests. You are now ready to start recruiting testers for your app!

Ready to get started with uberSVN? Download the open, free ALM platform from http://www.ubersvn.com/download

Using uberAPPS? Have your say on uberAPPS at the official forum!

Crowdsourcing Comes to uberSVN

Published by jthornsby on January 19, 2012 in New Product, Subversion, uberSVN and WANdisco. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , .

You may remember we announced a new release of uberSVN at the end of 2011, bringing a major update to the integrated uberAPPS store that was designed to make adding new apps easier and quicker. Today, we are announcing the first of our new additions to the revamped app store: uTest’s range of testing types for web, desktop and mobile applications.

uTest covers all the major operating systems, and is backed by a community of over 45,000 on-demand professional testers from 180 countries. uTest enables development teams to launch higher quality products quicker, and to control the cost of testing. At WANdisco, we’re proud to announce this partnership with uTest, and will be offering uberSVN users two packages of uTest services:

Bronze

  • 5 professional testers located throughout the US and Canada
  • Testing across a selection of the most popular OS versions, browsers or devices relevant to your particular app
  • Real-time communication with your testing team

Silver

  • 10 professional testers located throughout the US and Canada
  • Testing across a selection of the most popular OS versions, browsers or devices relevant to your app
  • Real-time communication with your testing team
  • Online technical support from a uTest project manager

New to uberSVN? The free-to-download, easy-to-install open ALM platform can be downloaded from http://www.ubersvn.com/download. Existing uberSVN users can easily purchase uTest from within the integrated uberAPPS store. Ready to get started? Check out our step-by-step guide to adding uTest to uberSVN.

We’ll be making another exciting, uberAPPS announcement soon. Keep checking back for the latest news!

Using uberAPPS? Have your say on uberAPPS at the official forum!

WANdisco Supports new Apache Bloodhound Project

Published by jthornsby on January 12, 2012 in General, New Product and WANdisco. 1 Comment Tags: , , , , , , , , , , .

It’s no secret WANdisco are big fans of open source, so we’re excited to see that the Bloodhound project has taken its first step to becoming a fully-fledged Apache Software Foundation project: Bloodhound has been voted into the Apache Incubator by the Apache community!

The Apache Bloodhound project will provide a software collaboration tool based on the code base of the well-known Trac project, and will include issue tracking, a wiki, and repository browsing. It will further build on Trac by incorporating some of the most popular plugins, to create a more complete distribution than your typical Trac installation. One of the Apache Bloodhound project’s core goals, is to create a strong developer community around the Trac code base in a vendor-neutral location. Trac has already included a potential Bloodhound project on its list of derivatives. At WANdisco, we are excited to get involved in this new project, by sponsoring a number of the initial committers.

Although WANdisco are sponsoring some of the initial committers, one of the major aims of Apache Bloodhound will be to create a vibrant developer community, and any interested committers will be able to contribute to the project. Interested in getting involved? Check out the Bloodhound webpage for more info.

The First Subversion 1.7 Alpha Release is Available Now and The Community Needs Your Feedback

Published by Jim Campigli on June 13, 2011 in New Product, Subversion, SVN Hackers and WANdisco. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

The long awaited and highly anticipated release of Subversion 1.7 is almost upon us.  Like any successful open source project, Subversion needs active participation and feedback from its user community.     This  is especially true in the case of 1.7,  given its emphasis on client-side performance and  new client tools.  That’s why Subversion 1.7.0 alpha-1 has now been made available for user testing.    Major 1.7 enhancements include:

  • HTTPv2- a protocol rewrite designed to enhance performance by reducing the number of round trips between the client and the server with every request.
  • WC-NG – a rewrite of the working copy library that enhances performance by centralizing metadata storage and provides a foundation for supporting features such as shelving and offline commits in future releases.
  • svnrdump -  a new client tool that provides the same functionality as  svnadmin dump and svnadmin load, but  on remote repositories.   There’s no need for administrator access to the source or target repository on on the remote server’s filesystem.

A complete list of what’s new is available at  http://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.7.html.  Download 1.7 now at: http://www.wandisco.com/subversion/download/1_7-alpha.  Contribute to the success of this major new release by providing your feedback at:  http://www.svnforum.org/forums/56-Apache-Subversion-1.7.0-Alpha-Support .   This is your chance to make a positive impact on the world’s most popular version control system and its more than five million users.


Support for Mac OS X Added to the World’s Most Comprehensive Set of Fully Tested Free Subversion Binaries

Published by Jim Campigli on June 3, 2011 in New Product, Subversion, SVN Hackers, uberSVN and WANdisco. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

Certified Subversion 1.6.17 binaries are now available for the Mac OS X platform.  These binaries work with Mac OS X versions 10.5.x and 10.6.x on PPC and Intel 32 and 64 bit architectures.  This software provides a complete, fully tested version of Subversion based on the most recent stable release, including the latest fixes.

To upgrade to the newest release of Subversion on Mac OS X and take advantage of the fixes and enhancements that it offers go to: http://www.wandisco.com/subversion/download .  You can register for free community support for the software at: www.svnforum.org.  Professional support is also available if you require secure, high quality online, phone and email support with guaranteed response times and automated access to the latest fixes and updates.

Subversion 1.6.17 Now Available

Published by Jim Campigli on June 1, 2011 in General, New Product, Subversion and WANdisco. 1 Comment Tags: , , , , , , .

Subversion 1.6.17 was just released today.   This newest version provides several key enhancements as well as bug fixes.   Most notably, 1.6.17 includes major improvements in checkout performance for large working copies on Windows, greater efficiency of ‘blame – g’  for users dealing with a large amount of mergeinfo, and improved error handling on Windows.   A detailed list of the changes included in this new release is available at:  http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/tags/1.6.17/CHANGES.   Release notes for the entire 1.6.x series can be found at:  http://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.6.html.

To upgrade to this latest release of Subversion and take advantage of the fixes and enhancements that it offers go to: http://www.wandisco.com/subversion/download

The Next Frontier of Software Development: Social Coding for Subversion

Published by Jim Campigli on April 30, 2011 in General, New Product, Subversion, SVN Hackers, uberSVN and WANdisco. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

WANdisco recently unveiled uberSVN - a major new product available free of charge that transforms Subversion into an open, extensible platform for application lifecycle management (ALM). In addition to plug-and-play flexibility and rich system and user administration capabilities, uberSVN provides the first-ever social coding environment for Subversion, taking enterprise software development beyond the limits of email, wikis, defect trackers, peer-code-review-tools and other applications typically used to manage projects.

uberSVN’s social coding environment reflects the convergence of social networking paradigms represented by Facebook and Twitter that foster instant communication and the collaborative development models of open source communities where software with features similar to these social networking sites was first used. And it’s having the same positive impact on software quality and developer productivity behind corporate firewalls that it’s had in the open source communities that deliver such market-dominating software as the Apache web server, Linux operating system and even Subversion itself.

uberSVN is organized around development teams and their activities. Each team has a home page that profiles the team members, lists the projects they’re working on, repositories they’re using and their latest activity and status. Team members can see each other’s real-time progress by simply subscribing to Twitter-like feeds that managers can also monitor.

With uberSVN, just like developers in an open source community, software engineers in corporate IT environments can rapidly exchange information and continually learn from one another. Peer review and continuous feedback are the norm. The overall skill level of the development team goes up and the all-too-common pitfall of reinventing the wheel is avoided. The end result is higher quality software delivered in far less time.

uberSVN is free.  Download it now at http://www.ubersvn.com/download.

Welcome uberSVN

Published by David Richards on April 21, 2011 in New Product, Subversion and uberSVN. 1 Comment Tags: , , , , .

Today is a very special day here at WANdisco.  We are launching a new product: uberSVN.  This is significant from a couple of perspectives.  First, this is a very important product in the software development marketplace and second this product was completely delivered by our team of engineers in Sheffield, England. uberSVN transforms Apache Subversion into an easy to use, install and extend Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) platform.  We don’t believe that any one vendor has the best product in every class. Why should one be forced to buy only from one vendor?  Shouldn’t you be able to use say Subversion for SCM, Hudson / Jenkins for build, Trac for defect tracking and Wiki? Then decide that you prefer JIRA and simply be able to use it without having to completely throw away everything else.

The message here is that we are empowering users by giving them choice.  Freedom to choose any combination of ALM tools that best fit the business requirements be it price or functionality, open source or closed source.  uberSVN therefore creates a heterogeneous application development environment.

Why can we do this?  Well we are very active in the Apache Subversion open source project and we already support some of the world’s largest Subversion implementations.  Collectively that means that we see the world from two very different perspectives. From the perspective of the open source project we realized that there were certain things that could be improved for the majority of users such as pre-configured apache. From the perspective of our customers, this is something that they are already doing in an ad hoc way.  We just don’t see companies paying huge fees for a soup-to-nuts solution from a single ALM vendor any more.  They want to select from a menu of open source and closed source products choosing what they perceive to be the best in class.  We saw that trend and that was a major driver for us to create uberSVN.  This is currently not released under an open source license but it’s free (that may change in the future).

A few years ago when we decided to open up a development center in Sheffield there were more than a few raised eyebrows.  There’s a kind of intellectual snobbery in the UK about anything north of London and if you mention it then you’ve got a chip on your shoulder (that would be me then!)  uberSVN is a testament to that strategy.  We have a wonderful team that has produced something that is quite brilliant. Well done to everyone on the uberSVN team. You deserve all of the credit!

uberSVN team: Ian Wild, Owain Lewis, Wayne Mellors, Mark Poole, Simon Mann, Warren Harper, Liam Jolly, John Chambers, Mat Booth, Steve Bell, Katherine Sheehan, Gavin Moorcroft, Mark Lucas, Gary Beardshaw, Clare Jones, Andrew Smethurst, Ross Bray