Trend Reports
Visual trend analysis engine for testcase creation, execution and defects historical data
Interactive trend reports with multiple analysis options
Timeline based reports allow data analysis over various time periods
Discrete and cumulative data
Side-by-side comparisons and analysis of status, users, entities
Creation and execution rates for input into planning cycles
Ability to show appropriate trend reports on Project/Release Dashboards
Export of trend data
Retroactive for Zephyr 2.6 users
Search
Global search capabilities across projects and releases
Real-time indexed search across Requirements, Testcases and Executions
Advanced search via keywords
Export of search results set
Web services based APIs
Programmatically access Zephyr data from external systems like build, automation, continuous integration, dashboards, IDEs etc.
Get information about users, projects, releases, testcase repositories and the underlying folders, testcases, custom fields, execution cycles
Additional JIRA Support
Support for JIRA 4.1.1
Support for JIRA custom fields (both read and modify)
Ability to switch between JIRA types via configuration parameter
Display of actual JIRA ID in the Defect column of TCE
Ability to jump directly to the relevant defect in JIRA (in a separate browser window) from within Zephyr’s Defect Tracking
JIRA chart labels are customizable (by assignee or by creator, using either their username or email address)
Access to Zephyr APIs to allow JIRA initiated actions
Enhancements and Usability Improvements
Warning prompts in many delete functions including during the deletion of cycles and phases
Clicking on the ”Add Step” button now adds a step below the selected row
The testcase editing area now supports Copy and Paste of entire rows (test steps, test data and expected results)
All users who have access to the Documents application can now add/modify/delete
Testcase Creation application now shows the number of folders and testcase counts for a selected folder
The Collaboration bar can now be completely removed from the Desktop to increase the space for application windows
In the Testcase Repository and Testcase Creation applications, tree nodes/folders now have a description field
In Testcase EAS, tests in execution cycles can now be deleted
In Testcase EAS, ”Sync Now” presents the option of removing or leaving the deleted testcases and folders
User lists are now sorted alphabetically by First Name
On drilling down in Metrics, it now display the path to indicate what data is being displayed
Custom fields are now exposed in the Testcase Execution application
The Documents section in the Dashboards are now scrollable
In Testcase Repository, assignments can be applied to at a particular node or cascaded to all sub-nodes or completely turned off
The Alt-ID field in Requirements is now exported
Sorting of priority and custom fields is now possible in Testcase Repository, Creation and Execution
Inactivity timeout is now increased to 90 mins and can be modified
Performance Improvements
Assignments are a lot faster in Testcase EAS
In Testcase Repository and Testcase Creation, it is faster to add or update folders to projects
Bug Fixes