Product News for 2023
Spira v7.10 Released: Artifact Tags, Program Reports and ChatGPT
December 18, 2023 Product News
We are pleased to announce the release of the latest version (v7.10) of our award-winning test management SpiraTest system, application lifecycle management SpiraTeam platform, and enterprise agile planning platform - SpiraPlan. This new version includes support for meta-tagging of artifacts, program reports, and widgets, as well as our new ChatGPT Generative AI capability.
Enhancements to Jira Cloud & Server Integration Released
December 14, 2023 Product News
We are pleased to announce that we have released a major set of updates to our data synchronization plugin for Atlassian Jira. The plugin lets customers use SpiraTest, SpiraTeam and SpiraPlan seamlessly with Jira. The integration lets you synchronize user stories, issues and tasks between the different platforms. The latest version includes enhancements to handle effort and date fields, synchronize artifact associations, and improve the logging.
Inflectra's Plans for Leveraging Artificial Intelligence in our Platform
November 3, 2023 Product News
As we discussed in this article - The Risks of Trusting Machines to Check Themselves - Artificial Intelligence is radically changing the software development and quality engineering landscape. At Inflectra we have been working on several different avenues of incorporating both artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities into our product and platform. In this article you can learn more about our plans.
Spira v7.9 Released: Updated Agile Planning & Task Boards
October 16, 2023 Product News
We are pleased to announce the release of the latest version (v7.9) of our award-winning test management SpiraTest system, application lifecycle management SpiraTeam platform, and enterprise agile planning platform - SpiraPlan. This new version includes completely revamped agile planning boards and scrum task boards. These new boards are based on the public beta we announced several months ago and incorporate the feedback we received from our customers and partners.
ChatGPT Plugin Coming to Spira: Generate Tests, Risks, Tasks & BDD Steps using AI
October 12, 2023 Product News
Inflectra is thrilled to introduce the ChatGPT Plugin for the Spira platform—a quantum leap in automating your software development lifecycle. Developed in partnership with OpenAI, this groundbreaking SpiraApp empowers you to automate the creation of essential project artifacts from requirements, such as user stories, features, epics, and business/system requirements.
Discover the future today!
Spira v7.8 Released: User Mentions and Program-Level Reports
September 12, 2023 Product News
We are pleased to announce the release of the latest version (v7.8) of our award-winning test management SpiraTest system, application lifecycle management SpiraTeam platform, and enterprise agile planning platform - SpiraPlan.
Enhancements to GitHub Integration Released
August 30, 2023 Product News
We are excited to announce the release of an updated data-synchronization plugin with the popular GitHub source code and DevOps orchestration platform. This new version of our GitHub plugin extends the functionality to synchronize both pull requests and issues. Previously, the plugin only supported issue synchronization.
Spotlight on Spira 7.8 - @Mentions and Program-Level Reporting
August 29, 2023 Product News
We are excited to announce some key enhancements for our test management SpiraTest system, application lifecycle management SpiraTeam platform, and enterprise agile planning platform - SpiraPlan that will be coming next month in our v7.8 release. This new version introduces the ability to tag followers into conversations using the common @mention method found in other platforms and new program-level reports for SpiraPlan that build on the new scaled agile functionality introduced in v7.7.
Spira v7.7 Released: Program Capabilities & Milestones for Scaling Agile
July 10, 2023 Product News
We are pleased to announce the release of the latest version (v7.7) of our award-winning test management SpiraTest system, application lifecycle management SpiraTeam platform, and enterprise agile planning platform - SpiraPlan.
Spotlight on Rapise 8.0 - New Test Frameworks That Sync with Spira
June 12, 2023 Product News
We are excited to announce the upcoming release of Rapise v8.0 at the end of the month. This major new update to our award-winning test automation platform includes a completely new way to create and manage test automation frameworks. The new Framework mode is being introduced in Rapise 8.0 to simplify test case and test set management, as well as the management of parameters, page objects/modules, object repositories, and shared code.
Spotlight on Spira 7.7 - Scaled Agile Program Capabilities & Milestones
June 6, 2023 Product News
We are excited to announce the upcoming release of SpiraPlan v7.7 at the end of the month. This new version of our Enterprise Agile Planning platform includes the first major component of our Scaled Agile roadmap - the ability to plan and manage a program-level backlog, with program capabilities and milestones. These
SpiraPlan (only) features add functionality to Programs to help users manage the delivery of features and releases across multiple products at once. Brand new program-level artifacts let you scale your agile practices beyond products like never before.
Read on to learn more about what is coming in Spira v7.7.
Read MoreScaling Agile With SpiraPlan - Whitepaper Now Available
March 1, 2023 Product News
As we announced earlier in the year, we have published the two-year roadmap for Spira on our website. One of the key themes for the next two years is adding support for scaled agile methodologies such as SAFe, Nexus and Disciplined Agile Delivery. To help you understand our vision and see what is planned, we have just released a new whitepaper that explains why you should be considering scaling agile in your organization, and how SpiraPlan can help.
Updated Importer for Microsoft AzureDevOps and TFS Released
February 5, 2023 Product News
With the strategic depreciation of Microsoft Azure DevOps (ADO) in favor of their newer DevOps platform GitHub Enterprise, we have had many customers look to migrate to our SpiraTeam platform. With its powerful agile boards, built-in test management capabilities, and tight integration with GitHub, SpiraTeam is the perfect replacement for ADO for organizations and enterprises that need a seamless and risk-free transition path.
Rapise Product Roadmap for 2023 and 2024 Released
January 23, 2023 Product News
We are excited to announce the release of our high-level product roadmap for our Rapise test automation platform. This updated roadmap provides information on the functionality you can enjoy in the next 1-2 years as part of our frequent updates to the core Rapise product and its associated libraries that handle different technologies and platforms being automated.
Spira Product Roadmap for 2023 and 2024 Released
January 16, 2023 Product News
We are excited to announce the release of our high-level product roadmap for our Spira platform. The platform includes our SpiraTest test management system, SpiraTeam application lifecycle management system and SpiraPlan, the market-leading integrated scaled agile program management system. The updated product roadmap outlines the key marquee features planned for 2023 and 2024, broken down by quarter.
Updated Importer for Micro Focus / HPE ALM Released
January 3, 2023 Product News
With the use of Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) now finally deprecated by Microsoft, many companies that relied on IE to be able to use Micro Focus ALM / HPE ALM are now looking to aggressively phase- out both IE and Micro Focus ALM and replace them with something more modern and agile. Several organizations have contacted us recently to learn how they can easily switch from ALM to SpiraTeam and reap both of these benefits. With that in mind, we have just completed a major update to our migration wizard for ALM that makes this process even easier and risk-free.