What's new - earlier versions

The following features were released earlier this year.

DevOps Aviator

The following DevOps Aviator innovations are available in OpenText Core Software Delivery Platform:

Area What's new
Aviator Smart Assistant

The Aviator Smart Assistant is an AI-powered virtual assistant that can analyze items, suggest improvements, and more.

  • Smart Assistant supports features, user stories, defects and manual tests.

  • Ask Aviator to create test steps for your manual tests, or to rewrite manual tests as Gherkin (BDD) tests.

  • You can now continue a conversation with Smart Assistant.

  • User-defined memo fields are now also used as input.

For details, see Aviator Smart Assistant.

Create automated codeless tests

You can now use Aviator to create automated codeless tests based on existing manual tests.

For details, see Functional Test Design.

Manual test suggestions using Aviator

You can use the AI-powered Aviator to suggest test cases for a feature and create new manual test items based on the suggestions. For details, see Suggest and generate manual tests.

For a full list of DevOps Aviator features, see Get started.

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Insights

The following Insights enhancements are available:

Area What's new
Send dashboard snapshot by email

You can now send an HTML dashboard snapshot by email directly from the dashboard.

Share menu All dashboard sharing options are now accessible from the Sharing options menu in the toolbar.
Document report enhancements

When including images in Document reports, you can now embed them in the report instead of accessing them through a link.

For details, see Document reports.

Imported dashboard widgets

Imported dashboards are now automatically adapted to the destination workspace.

For details, see Import and export a dashboard configuration.

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Agile

The following Agile enhancements are available:

Area What's new
Board view

The following board view enhancements are available:

  • Base your feature board columns on any single-selection field for easier planning and tracking. For example, product managers can use a milestone field to share their roadmap with the team.

  • You can now easily access the most important information by customizing card fields in any board.

For details, see Board view.

Convert backlog items

You can now convert user stories and defects into quality stories and vice versa.

For details, see Convert backlog items.

Copy user and quality stories to other workspaces

In addition to defects, you can now copy or move user stories and quality stories to other workspaces.

For details, see Copy items to another workspace.

New labels for dependency-related fields The following dependency-related fields have been renamed for greater clarity:
Old field nameNew field name
Depends on countUpstream dependencies count
Direct predecessorUpstream dependencies
Dependency countDownstream dependencies count
Direct successorDownstream dependencies

Existing favorites and custom names involving these fields are preserved. For details, see Build the backlog.

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Quality

The following Quality enhancements are available:

Area What's new
Defect field auto-population

Defect fields are now automatically populated when reporting a defect from within any type of run, not only from the manual runner.

For details, see Issues.

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Release

The following Release management enhancements are available:

Area What's new
Track overdue process items

The new fields Start time delay and End time delay enable you to identify and track overdue process items. You can use these fields to trigger alerts using business rules, view overdue items in a dashboard, and sort or filter grids and other views.

For details, see Release process flow.

Schedule release process items You can now schedule release process items by setting a Start Time rule. For details, see Schedule release process items.
Parameterization in auto actions You can now use parameterization in auto action text fields to include a related entity's reference fields. For details, see Advanced output processing.

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Pipelines and integrations

The following pipeline and integrations enhancements are available:

Area What's new
GitHub Actions

Multi-branch pipelines are now supported.

For details, see CI integrations.

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Functional Test

The following Functional Test enhancements are available:

Area What's new
MBT: Automate units with Selenium

You can now use Selenium with TestNG to automate your Model-Based Testing units, in addition to UFT One actions and codeless scripts.

For details, see Model-Based Testing.

Execution: Support AUT behind the firewall

A new tunneling solution allows you to configure Functional Test Execution to run tests from the cloud on applications hosted on your local or private networks.

For details, see Enable cloud execution.

Execution: Delete schedules

You can now delete schedules and scheduled runs.

For details, see Enable cloud execution.

Execution: Other
  • You can now execute UFT One automated tests on mobile devices.

  • In the Scheduled Runs tab, you can now drill down to details on each suite run that is in progress, and see the duration and progress of its execution.

For details, see Functional Test Execution.

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Common functionality

The following shared component enhancements are available:

Area What's new

Universal bulk update

Bulk update can now be applied to all fields, including program, release, milestone, sprint and team. Comments can also be added using bulk update.

For details, see Update items.

Collaborate on dashboards and favorites

You can now allow other users to edit your dashboards and favorites.

For details, see Favorites and Share a dashboard.

Download multiple attachments You can now download or copy links for multiple attachments at the same time. For details, see Attachments.
Accessibility improvements

The following accessibility improvements are available:

  • Fixed several limitations relating to keyboard navigation.

  • The following keyboard shortcut is added: Alt+F10 to access the memo field toolbar buttons.

  • You can open sub menus using the alt + arrow right key combination.

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Administration

The following administration enhancements are available:

Area What's new
Sprint custom field

You can now create custom fields of type Sprint.

For details, see Custom fields.

Filter available values for reference fields

You can now filter the available values for reference fields, such as Release and Team, using the Modify lookup list action in a business rule.

For details, see Design business rules.

Activity log ID in webhook payload

When triggered by an event, such as adding or updating an entity, the webhook payload now includes the activity log ID of the event.

For details, see Trigger webhooks for other applications.

Dashboard permissions

The administrator can now define which users have permission to create and modify dashboards.

For details, see Set up a dashboard.

Adjust requirements maximum tree level

You can now adjust the number of levels allowed in the Requirements tree. Previously the limit was set to 12 levels. Set a new limit using the MAX_TREE_DEPTH_REQUIREMENTS parameter. For details, see Configuration parameters and Requirements.

Default setting to include searchable fields

The administrator can now define the default setting of the Include Searchable Fields option in global searches, by setting the SEARCH_ALL_SEARCHABLE_BY_DEFAULT parameter. For details, see Configuration parameters.

Search and filter API access keys You can now search, filter, and group the list of API access keys. For details, see API access.
Custom icons for entities

You can now set a new label and color for entities, based on a condition that you define.

For details, see Dynamic labels.

Cross-workspace copy permission

You can now set permissions allowing users to copy work items from one workspace to another.

For details, see Permission categories and types.

Custom fields for teams

The Team entity now supports user-defined fields. This allows you to store additional information on the Team entity, and also categorize and filter teams more efficiently.

For details, see Custom fields.

Business rules for more entity types

Business rules are now supported for the following entities:

  • Application module
  • Release
  • Milestone

For details, see Business rules.

Shift migration tool

A new version of the Shift data migration solution tool is now available. For details, see OpenText Marketplace.

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Help Center

The following new topics are now available in the Help Center:

Topic Description
Modules Provides descriptions of the items in main menu.
User interface A description of the basic window elements.
FAQs Answers to common questions.

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