Spira v6.8 Released: Inline Content Editing and Enhanced BDD/Gherkin Support

15-Mar-2021 by Adam Sandman Product News

We are pleased to announce the release of the latest version of our award winning test management SpiraTest system, application lifecycle management SpiraTeam platform, and enterprise agile planning platform - SpiraPlan. The new version (6.8) provides the ability to natively create documents, rich text, markdown and other content directly in Spira for the first time. In addition this version includes many bug fixes, feature enhancements and performance improvements over v6.7.1.

Inline Content Editing of Rich Text and Markdown

This new version includes major enhancements to the documents management module to allow users the create and edit inline content directly in Spira. Customers have asked us for ways to make authoring the unstructured, freeform content easier in Spira, similar to how they could use a Wiki, Google Docs, or Confluence page. This new functionality lets you write plain text, rich text, and markdown inside Spira and have all of the versioning and workflow capabilities at your disposal. Of course, you can link this content to your requirements, test cases, and other Spira artifacts. Read More

Enhanced BDD and Gherkin Support

Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) is an Agile software development process that encourages collaboration among developers, QA and non-technical or business participants in a software project. The new inline content editing makes it amazing easy to write BDD style requirements and test cases in Spira using Gherkin syntax with automatic syntax highlighting. Read More

Release Notes

For the full list of features, bug fixes, and enhancements, please check out the v6.8 release notes.