Aviator Smart Assistant

Aviator Smart Assistant is an AI-powered virtual assistant that can help boost your productivity. It can perform tasks such as analyzing items, suggesting improvements, and recommending KPIs. It can also generate new items, such as user stories or manual tests for a feature.

Smart Assistant is available for the following entities: Features, user stories, defects, manual tests.

Prerequisites

To use Smart Assistant, you must have the following:

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Use Smart Assistant

Send a request or question about an item to Smart Assistant. Smart Assistant uses context from the item, such as the description fields, comments, and images, to generate relevant responses. You can also use Aviator power actions for extended functionality.

To use Smart Assistant:

  1. Open an item in details view.

  2. Click the Aviator tab in the sidebar to open the Aviator pane.

  3. In the Aviator pane, enter a request or question about the item, or click one of the suggested prompts.

    Click the Use Images button to include inline images in the request. A notification dot on the button indicates that inline images are included in the request. For details, see Include images in requests.

    Use the prompts in the Power actions section for extended functionality, such as generating new items or including a video with your request. For details, see Power actions.

  4. After Smart Assistant responds, you can do the following.

    Button Action
    Copy Copy the response.
    Try again Generate a different response. If you generate multiple responses, you can use the Previous and Next buttons <> to page through the responses.
    Good response Leave positive feedback on the response. This feedback helps improve Smart Assistant's responses.
    Bad response Leave negative feedback on the response. This feedback helps improve Smart Assistant's responses.
    Edit Edit your request. To edit your request, hover the mouse over your request and click the Edit button.
  5. Continue the conversation by entering text in the chat box, or click + New topic to begin a new conversation.

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Power actions

Aviator power actions give you extended functionality when using Smart Assistant. You can use power actions to generate new items, such as user stories or manual tests for a feature, or to include video files with some requests.

To use power actions:

  1. Open an item in details view.
  2. Click the Aviator tab in the sidebar to open the Aviator pane.
  3. If you have a previous chat history in the pane, click + New topic.
  4. Click one of the prompts in the Power actions section.

    Power action Entity Details
    Generate user stories Feature

    Smart Assistant suggests new user stories for the feature.

    Review Smart Assistant's suggestions, select the user stories you want to create, and click Add user stories.

    Generate manual tests from video Feature

    To use this power action, you must first attach a video file to the feature.

    Smart Assistant generates manual tests with test steps based on the actions recorded in the video.

    Review the Smart Assistant's suggestions, select the manual tests you want to create, and click Add manual tests.

    Generate reproduction steps from video Defect

    To use this power action, you must first attach a video file to the defect.

    Smart Assistant generates a list of steps to reproduce the defect based on the actions recorded in the video.

    For items generated by Aviator, the AI suggested field is set to Yes. You can use this field to track which items were created by Aviator.

Note: When using a power action based on a video file, note the following:

  • The supported video file types are MP4 and WMV. The maximum file size is 10 MB.
  • Video file processing counts towards your organization's Aviator usage quota. Larger video files consume more of the usage quota.

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Include images in requests

When sending a request or question about an item to Smart Assistant, you can also include images that are provided as part of memo fields, comments, or test scripts, to generate relevant responses. When images contain helpful information, including them can improve Aviator's response.

For example, when there is an image in the description of a feature or defect, you might ask the following:

  • What buttons are available in the image?

  • What is the exception in the image?

  • Suggest a What's New summary for the feature (which will take the images into account).

In addition, using images in a manual test can produce better results when converting it to an automatic test. Aviator can decipher any element of the image, not just test.

Your admin can control this feature using the following parameters.

Parameter name Description
GENAI_USE_INLINE_IMAGES_IN_REQUESTS

By default, users can include images in Aviator requests. To block this capability, set the parameter to false.

GENAI_MAX_CONTEXT_IMAGES_PER_REQUEST

The maximum number of images that can be sent in a single request.

For details, see Configuration parameters.

Note:  

  • Links to external images are not supported.

  • Only the image ID or link is kept for audit purposes, not the image itself.

  • Smart Assistant only includes the images of the main entity in the request. For example, for a feature, it includes images that are part of the feature's description, comments, and UDFs. It does not include images for child or other related sub-entities.

To include inline images in a request:

For details, see Use Smart Assistant.

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Examples

Here are examples of how you can use Aviator Smart Assistant to your benefit.

Entity Examples
Feature
  • Ask for a marketing summary of the feature.

  • Generate user stories for the feature. For details, see Power actions.

  • Suggest and create manual tests for the feature. For details, see Suggest and generate manual tests.

  • Generate manual tests for the feature based on a video recording. For details, see Power actions.

Defect
  • Ask for a summary of the comments.

  • Ask for solution strategies.

  • Generate the defect reproduction steps based on a video recording. For details, see Power actions.

Manual test
  • Ask Aviator to suggest test steps.

  • To speed up automation, ask Aviator to translate a manual test to Gherkin (BDD) syntax.

  • Use Aviator to generate automated codeless tests from your manual tests. For details, see To generate automated codeless tests.

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Generative AI access keys

A Generative AI (GenAI) API access key is created when creating a new tenant with an Aviator license, or installing an Aviator license on an existing tenant.

The GenAI access key is used by the GenAI service to create a session to fetch data when additional data is required to answer the user request.

The same GenAI access key is associated with, and used for, all workspaces in that tenant which have a valid Aviator license. This includes existing workspaces and any workspaces that are created in the future.

GenAI access keys are created with view permissions for all workspaces in the tenant. The access key can only be used to fetch data that the logged-in user can view.

When an Aviator license is uninstalled from an existing tenant, or when the license expires, the GenAI API access key is removed.

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