Electric Commander, now known as CloudBees CD, allows you to set up an alternate location for your plugins directory. This is a two step process and it's easy to forget the second step. If the second step is not done, the system can appear to still be functioning...
Software Development & Release Management
SPK Develops Dashboard for E*Trade’s Electric Commander
Why are dashboards important? In a nutshell, they allow you to visually present information in a way that is meaningful to the reader. They allow the reader to immediately see trends, and more importantly, quickly make decisions or change behavior in order get better...
CloudBees CD’s (formerly Electric Cloud) Electric Commander – Metrics Dashboard
Video Transcript: Electric Command (now known as CloudBees CD) is amazing tool for streamlining and automating your build, test, and deploy software development cycle. But it's usefulness goes even further out-of-the-box. Commander generates a large pool of data...
Electric Cloud’s Electric Commander – DynamicMenus and Parameterization
Video Transcript: SPK is the leading provider of custom dashboards and users interfaces for Electric Commander (now part of CloudBees CD). One of our most frequent requested customizations is for input screens featuring dynamically populated and responsive menu...
Electric Commander (Now CloudBees CD) Transferring Homepage Settings Between Users
The Electric Commander homepage allows you to bookmark links and job configurations for easy access. It’s easy to add one or two, but if you have a lot of links and you want to share them with other users so that they have the same links as well, its a lot of work to...
SilkTest Integration with PTC Integrity Test Management
Overview In this blog post and video, Carlos Almeida explains how to launch SilkTest Classic or Open Agent test cases from within PTC Integrity (now PTC Windchill RV&S). Pass/Fail verdicts are automatically captured and reported within Integrity Test Session.
PTC Trace Report Video
The video below demos a productivity add-on for PTC’s popular Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) product, PTC Integrity Lifecycle Manager. As with many such products, customers have asked for more powerful and flexible reporting capabilities. SPK now offers a new...
CloudBees CD (formerly Electric Cloud) Electric Commander – Process Automation Dashboard
Video Transcript: Here at SPK, we strive to mold technology to the particular needs of your business so you can spend less time configuring your tech infrastructure and more time getting your product to market. And process dashboard is means of achieving this for...
Continuous Integration Best Practices—Part 2
As I noted in "Continuous Integration Best Practices—Part 1" there are 10 best practice principles associated with Continuous Integration and in this previous article, we looked at the first three. For part 2, we pick up where we left off and talk about principles...
Three Monotonous Tasks That Are Killing Morale In Your Software Engineering Team
In the engineering world, there’s no underestimating how hard it is to attract and retain top talent. Finding qualified candidates is hard enough. But you want to go one better than that. You want to attract talent that gives your organization a competitive edge. Once...
Creating and Deploying a Docker Image
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Creating IBM Rational 7.0.x Patch Install Areas
This week we take up the topic of creating IBM Rational patch install areas for pre-7.1 versions. As we have discussed in previous weeks, there are a number of tools in Rational 7.1 and beyond that introduce much automation into patch management. However, there are...