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.
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Customize User Role & Permission at a Project Level | - Ability to customize an individual role and their permissions for certain actions at a project level.
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| Customize User Delete Permission | - Ability to customize a user’s permission to delete requirements, test cases, folders, etc. (Zephyr content)
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| Customize Company Logo | - Ability to customize and display a company logo at the top-left corner of the interface in the Zephyr header.
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| 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.
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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.
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| Rich Text Formatting for Test Step Fields | - Added the support for rich text formatting for all the test step fields of a test case.
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| 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.
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| Test Cycle Execution Progress Bar | - Provide the execution progress bar summary for both the test phase and test cycle.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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).
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| 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.
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Other Enhancements and Changes:
| Type of Enhancement | Description |
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| 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.
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| 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.
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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