Archive for April 2021

Spotlight on Spira 6.9 - OData Reporting API

April 26th, 2021

One of the old adages about reporting is that however many reports you create, you will always need one more! With that in mind, Spira has for many years had a powerful and flexible reporting engine built-in that lets you create custom reports and custom graphs using the Entity SQL (ESQL) query language. However users have asked us if there was a way to use their favorite reporting tool (e.g. Excel or Microsoft PowerBI) to connect to Spira to create reports. With the latest version of SpiraPlan that is now possible, for both cloud and on-premise customers using our new OData API.

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Recap: KronoDesk - On-Premise Help Desk Solution for Regulated Industries

April 22nd, 2021

On April 22nd, Inflectra hosted a webinar on KronoDesk - On-Premise Help Desk Solution for Regulated Industries presented by Adam Sandman. 

The following topics were covered in the webinar:

  • KronoDesk on-premise as an alternative solution to JIRA Service Desk 

  • KronoDesk Help Desk Ticketing System

  • Configuration and Customization

  • Support for multi-user organizations

  • FDA-compliant electronic signatures for life science customers

  • KronoDesk and its seamless end-to-end flow of information with SpiraTeam.

If you missed the webinar, we have a full recap below 👇

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Recap: Behavior-Driven Testing with Rapise and Cucumber JS

April 21st, 2021

 

On April 20th, Inflectra hosted a webinar on Behavior-Driven Testing with Rapise and Cucumber JS. Alexey Grinevich covered the following topics in the webinar:

  1. How to create behavior-driven tests that are maintainable and readable 

  2. How to record behavior-driven tests

  3. How to use Rapise Visual Language (RVL) and Cucumber JS in behavior-driven testing.

If you missed the webinar, we have a full recap below 👇

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Webinar Recap: Modern Alternatives to Micro Focus Toolset

April 15th, 2021

On April 13th, Inflectra hosted a webinar on the Modern Alternatives to Micro Focus Toolset. Adam Sandman and Alexey Grinevich covered the following topics in the webinar:

  1. Continued Ripple Effect: 2017 acquisition of HP by MicroFocus

  2. Better value for money: Alternatives to Micro Focus’ toolset for:

    • Application Lifecycle Management - SpiraPlan for QA, Product, Portfolio & Risk Management

    • Functional and performance testing: Rapise and JMeter instead of UFT and LoadRunner

  3. Leaving Micro Focus: smooth transition with migration assistance, implementation services,  technical consulting from Inflectra.

If you missed the webinar, we have recapped it in full in this blog 👇

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Spotlight on Spira 6.9 - Requirements Management Document View

April 15th, 2021

It is widely agreed in the software industry that one of the keys to delivering high-quality products is to get the requirements "right." However, there is far less consensus on what "right" actually means and even less consensus on the best way to get there. So having powerful requirements management and requirements traceability is vitally important to the software development and testing process. In our latest version of SpiraTeam and SpiraPlan, we have improved the new requirements document view to make it more useful for business analysts (BAs) and other team members.

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