Category Archives: Gurock Software

SmartInspect licenses for user groups

Now that we just announced our TestRail offer for open source teams, we also wanted to formalize our SmartInspect license offer for software development user groups. We have sponsored dozens of .NET, Java and Delphi user groups over the years and regularly blogged about it. So we are happy to make this a permanent offer [...]
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Free TestRail licenses for open source projects

We are happy to announce an offer to provide free licenses of our web-based test management software TestRail to open source projects and teams. As more and more users and organizations depend on open source software, introducing a dedicated test management tool to manage test cases and to ensure great release quality gets more important [...]
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New server infrastructure

We have been busy upgrading all Gurock Software services and websites to new servers this past weekend. Since the launch of our test management software TestRail earlier this year, we introduced a new hosted trial to make the evaluation of the product easier. The hosted trial has been quite popular so we decided to put [...]
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Updated SmartInspect for PostSharp aspect library

Ever since our friends over at SharpCrafters released the first beta versions of their improved PostSharp 2.0 AOP library for .NET, we received requests from SmartInspect users for an updated aspect library. Now that the latest PostSharp release candidate reached an important milestone (all APIes are frozen) we decided to update our existing aspect library. [...]
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TestRail Mini API

Integrating automated testing tools with TestRail and having an API to push test results is a popular feature request that we receive regularly. We have big plans in this regard and we are going to publish a new TestRail roadmap for the second half of 2010 at the end of the summer. However, after discussing [...]
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Launch of code.gurock.com

We always wanted to have some place where we could post code and add-on projects related to our products, but we didn’t like the idea of using Google Code or other public code hosting services for this. So when RemObjects announced their own project hosting website some time ago, we immediately knew that something like [...]
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TestRail 1.3 released

We are happy to announce TestRail 1.3, a new version of our web-based test management software. The new version introduces support for custom fields, a major feature that allows you to further customize TestRail for your needs. TestRail 1.3 also comes with a new alternative way to enter and manage test case steps and also [...]
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WCF logging and tracing with SmartInspect

Distributed software applications are usually difficult to debug. Bugs and performance issues can occur on the client, on the server or in the communication stack. Finding the root cause of such problems is often not trivial, especially if the issue only occurs on a production system. Luckily, .NET logging tools like SmartInspect help with this [...]
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New SmartInspect demos

Over the next few weeks we are going to rewrite some of the demo applications we ship with SmartInspect and also add new ones. So far we just had a handful of demo applications for each supported platform (.NET, Java and Delphi) and we feel that users would benefit from additional demos that showcase more [...]
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Aspect-oriented logging for .NET with Unity and SmartInspect

This article is part of a series about aspect-oriented logging with SmartInspect, our logging tool for .NET, Java and Delphi. Please see the first article of this series for a complete overview of the available posts. Michael Baarz recently emailed us as he was a looking for a modern .NET logging tool for his company’s [...]
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