July 1, 2024 Product News
We are excited to preview some of the new functionality coming to KronoDesk, our integrated customer service desk solution that helps businesses track and manage customer support tickets. The new version, 5.0, includes a number of new features, including group views, customer SLA tracking, and enhanced color coding. As Atlassian customers seek alternatives to Jira Server and Jira ServiceDesk Server, KronoDesk 5.0, with its flexible cloud and on-premise deployment options, provides a seamless transition to the Inflectra platform. Developed in close collaboration with our partner, Tietoevry, these enhancements reflect valuable user feedback and industry expertise.
Read MoreJune 27, 2024 Product News
We are excited to announce the upcoming v8.2 release of Rapise, our codeless AI-powered test automation platform, next month, July 2024. This new version promises to be a giant leap forward in test automation with new artificial intelligence functionality as well as other usability and functional improvements. In addition to these enhancements, we are happy to announce that it will also support dark mode for the first time (a frequent request from our customers!).
Read MoreJune 26, 2024 Product News
We are excited to announce the upcoming v.8.2 release of Rapise, our codeless AI-powered test automation platform, next month, July 2024. This new version promises to be a giant leap forward in test automation, with new artificial intelligence functionality as well as other usability and functional improvements. In this article, we will highlight how the new AI functionality will work in Rapise and what you can expect.
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Read MoreJune 24, 2024 Product News
We are excited to announce the recent release of SpiraTeam and SpiraPlan v8.1, our award-winning Spira application lifecycle management platform. In this new release, we have introduced seamless integration between Spira and the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Code Platform.
Read MoreMay 28, 2024 Product News
With the final sunsetting of Jira Server in February 2024, customers that are running Jira Server are looking at their options:
However, many customers using some of the plugins for Jira Server, such as XRAY for test management, are also looking at different options. In the case of XRAY, one of the issues has been that the cloud version of XRAY works differently than the Server/DataCenter version, and many customers have been unable to migrate from XRAY Server to XRAY Cloud.
Therefore, we at Inflectra have extended our Jira migration tool to support the migration of XRAY artifacts to SpiraTest. This lets us assist customers in two different use cases:
May 22, 2024 Product News
With the final sunsetting of Jira Server in February 2024, customers that need a self-hosted, private cloud, or on-premise application lifecycle management tool are actively looking for alternatives to Jira. With Jira DataCenter only being adopted by a small subset of customers, many companies and organizations are still stuck on an obsolete, and non-supported version of Jira. By March 2024, at least 36% of all Atlassian customers were still on Jira/Confluence Server. Therefore we at Inflectra have been working hard to further improve our migration tools to make the move from Jira to Spira easier than ever.
Read MoreMay 16, 2024 Product News
We are pleased to announce the release of the latest version (v8.0) of our award-winning test management SpiraTest system, application lifecycle management SpiraTeam platform, and enterprise agile planning platform - SpiraPlan. This new version includes a major update to our SpiraApps extensibility framework, allowing third-party developers to create SpiraApps for the first time. In addition, with the release of Spira 8.0, the risk management features of the platform are now available in the SpiraTeam edition of the platform for the first time.
Read MoreMay 10, 2024 Product News
Quality software is paramount in today's user-driven world. Customers have zero tolerance for bugs and glitches, and a single software defect can tarnish a brand's reputation. To empower you to deliver exceptional software quality, we've partnered with LambdaTest to seamlessly integrate SpiraTeam, our robust Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) platform, with LambdaTest's robust testing capabilities. This integration allows you to seamlessly log issues discovered during LambdaTest sessions directly into SpiraTeam, optimizing your bug tracking and resolution processes.
Want a preview the integration in action? Continue reading to see a short video.
Read MoreApril 22, 2024 Product News
We are pleased to announce the release of the latest version (v7.13) of our award-winning test management SpiraTest system, application lifecycle management SpiraTeam platform, and enterprise agile planning platform - SpiraPlan. This new version includes a streamlined My Page and a new integrated on-boarding checklist that helps new demo users quickly acclimate to the platform.
Read MoreApril 18, 2024 Product News
We are pleased to announce the release of the latest version (v7.13) of our award-winning enterprise agile planning platform - SpiraPlan. This new version extends the program backlog management features of SpiraPlan to have a new capabilities board view that lets you plan and manage your program features and capabilities as well as see the progress of the product backlog items associated with each capability.
Read MoreApril 17, 2024 Product News
We are pleased to announce the release of the latest version (v7.13) of our award-winning test management SpiraTest system, application lifecycle management SpiraTeam platform, and enterprise agile planning platform - SpiraPlan. This new version includes a new Azure OpenAI SpiraApp that replicates the functionality of our existing ChatGPT assistant within Spira, but lets you use your own private Azure OpenAI LLM instead.
Read MoreApril 16, 2024 Product News
We are pleased to announce the release of the latest version (v7.13) of our award-winning test management SpiraTest system, application lifecycle management SpiraTeam platform, and enterprise agile planning platform - SpiraPlan. This new version includes additional audit tracking functionality that adds tracking of product membership changes to the product and system history audit logs.
Read MoreApril 15, 2024 Product News
We are pleased to announce the release of the latest version (v7.13) 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 adding tags / labels to the remaining product artifacts in the system, including: test runs, test cases, test sets, and risks.
Read MoreApril 8, 2024 Product News
We are excited to announce the release of the new Spira Product Template Migration Tool. This new cross-platform (Mac and PC) application will let you easily back up and restore product templates between instances of SpiraTest, SpiraTeam, and SpiraPlan. Learn more about why this new free add-on for our Spira platform simplifies configuration management and enhances auditability and compliance.
Read MoreFebruary 14, 2024 Product News
We are pleased to announce the release of the latest version (v7.12) of our award-winning test management SpiraTest system, application lifecycle management SpiraTeam platform, and enterprise agile planning platform - SpiraPlan. This new version includes a completely redesigned incident tracking board that supports multiple views and adopts the new design we previously rolled out for the main planning board. In addition, we have updated the requirements board to match the new planning board and made some changes to the other boards based on feedback received from our customers.
Read MoreJanuary 23, 2024 Product News
At Inflectra, we're dedicated to innovating and evolving our products to meet and exceed your evolving needs. The fields of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are transforming how we design, develop and most importantly test software. Consequently, as outlined in our company plans for AI/ML, the Rapise roadmap features a large amount of Generative AI, as well as other forms of AI/ML. In addition, there is our continual effort to simplify the testing of complex enterprise applications and streamline the creation of reusable testing frameworks.
Read MoreJanuary 17, 2024 Product News
We are pleased to announce the release of the latest version of our award-winning automated software testing solution - Rapise. This new version includes significant enhancements to the API testing functionality, including support for folder hierarchies in RESTful web services. In addition, it includes support for incorporating the new Google Chrome for Testing into your web testing workflows.
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January 16, 2024 Product News
Inflectra's award-winning Spira quality management platform (including SpiraTest, SpiraTeam, and SpiraPlan editions) already comes with a variety of dedicated integrations for different test automation frameworks such as JUnit, NUnit, PyTest, etc. However, as new frameworks (such as WebDriver.io and Playwright) are constantly being released (and other frameworks, such as Protractor and Cypress.io) fall out of favor, we decided to create a new general-purpose integration that will be able to handle any integration from day one. This new integration is our generic xUnit Framework Integration.
Read MoreJanuary 3, 2024 Product News
Robot Framework is a generic open source automation framework. It can be used for test automation and robotic process automation (RPA). Robot Framework is supported by Robot Framework Foundation. Many industry-leading companies use the tool in their software development. We are pleased to announce that we have just released a new integration between Robot Framework and Spira. This new integration is available for all three flavors of Spira - SpiraTest, SpiraTeam and SpiraPlan.