6.3 Release Notes

May 2019

Zephyr is excited to announce the release of Zephyr 6.3 (Standalone Edition)! This release introduces a series of user-centric enhancements that will empower organizations to compress their testing time and provide globally distributed teams with superior testing flexibility, end-to-end traceability and enhanced user administration efficiencies.

Table of Contents:

Key Highlights

  • Improve User Productivity with Better Permission Control

Achieve project-specific and granular access (delete) permissions, providing users the right level of access to contribute effectively across different projects.

  • Increase Efficiency with Group User/ Role Assignment

Significantly reduce administration time with the ability to auto assign roles for CROWD/LDAP groups, eliminating the need to create users and assign roles individually.

  • Reuse Test Cases to Kick Start Projects Faster

Users can move the ownership of test case from 'project' to the 'global' repository, making it easily available for re-use and save precious testing time.


Product Features

Below is a brief summary of the new features. Please click on the link to be taken to the feature-specific help page.

Feature

Description

Customize User Role & Permission at a Project Level

  • Ability to customize an individual role and their permissions for certain actions at a project level.
Customize User Delete Permission
  • Ability to customize a user’s permission to delete requirements, test cases, folders, etc. (Zephyr content)
Customize Company Logo
  • Ability to customize and display a company logo at the top-left corner of the interface in the Zephyr header.
User Groups
  • Added User groups to allow grouping of users.
    • Additional support for Zephyr to automatically assign user roles based on Crowd and LDAP group assignments.
    • User groups can contain a list of users that can be used to allocate to specific projects rather than individually assigning a user to a project.
Multi-Jira's Authentication Support
  • Added support using different authentication methods/types when connecting multi-Jira instances.
    • Users have two authentication methods when connecting their JIRA instances.
      • Basic cookie-based authentication
      • OAuth 1.0 authentication
Bulk Appending Text for Test Cases
  • Improved the bulk edit feature to allow appending to specific test case fields.
    • Bulk append text to the test case tag field
    • Bulk append text to the test case comments field
Test Step Comment Field
  • Added an additional comment text field for test steps to provide further context for a test step.
    • Test steps now consists of Test Step ID, Test Steps, Test Data, Expected Results, and Comments.
Rich Text Formatting for Test Step Fields
  • Added the support for rich text formatting for all the test step fields of a test case.
Populate Global Repository
  • Improved on the Global Repository allowing users to populate the global repository using existing test cases from individual projects.
    • Global Repository has a “Move Ownership” feature that allows users the ability to move the ownership of a project level test case to a global level in the global repository.
Test Cycle Execution Progress Bar
  • Provide the execution progress bar summary for both the test phase and test cycle.
Test Case Version Sync in Test Execution
  • In Test Execution, users are able to sync and update the test cases where the test execution is using a previous or older version of the test case.
Rich Text Formatting for Dashboard Gadgets
  • Added the support for rich text formatting within dashboard gadgets used to provide more information and context for other dashboard users.
Dashboard Access Enhancement
  • Added the ability to allow users to access a dashboard when there is at least one gadget that is configured for a project that the user is assigned to.
Custom Fields Enhancements
  • Added the support for cascading custom fields.
  • Added the support for rich text custom fields.
  • Added the ability to create custom fields that are limited to a specific set of projects.
    • Custom fields can be set up to be limited for a specific project(s).
Zephyr and Jira Integration Enhancements
  • The status of the execution status for a test case that is linked to a Jira story will be displayed in Jira with any and all latest changes.
  • If a Jira defect is closed and crossed-out, the defect that is shown in Zephyr will display a crossed-out ID along with the status “Done”.
  • When filing new defects in Zephyr, it will display all available Jira data for populating Jira fields.

Other Enhancements and Changes:

Type of EnhancementDescription
Other Enhancements and Changes
  • Added support for the Zephyr SSO to be able to redirect straight into Zephyr after login to provide a seamless login experience.
  • Webhook enhancements when integrating a Jira instance to Zephyr.
UI/UX Enhancements and Changes
  • Added a “Select All” check box for all tables across Zephyr tables in Requirements, Test Repository, Test Execution, and Defects.
  • With user roles/permissions changing and depending on how the permissions are set up, some users may only have access to certain pages which will limit the left-hand navigation menu.

Known Issues

To view any known issues within this release, please navigate to the following known issues page:

Upgrading to 6.3

For more information on upgrading, please refer to Upgrading Zephyr.


Future Deprecation Plans

SOAP API Deprecation Planned

We're planning the deprecation of our SOAP APIs for either the 6.4 or 6.5 release. If you're currently using SOAP APIs and would like to discuss these plans, please reach out to us via a support ticket.