Jama Connect® 9.13.2/9.13.1 Customer-Validated Cloud

Release date US: 2024/07/11 (non-production), 2024/09/12 (production)

Release date AU/EU: 2024/07/12 (non-production), 2024/09/13 (production)

9.13.2 Update - Specific to customers that have configured the plugin: MultiFieldTemplatePlugin

SOS-DEF-7095 - The system no longer duplicates content when reusing items configured to use the multi-field plugin.

Jama Connect Advisor — Analysis Results Slide-Over Panel for Document View

In Document View, after analyzing a requirement with Jama Connect Advisor, the analysis results now open in a slide-over panel (previously a window). This panel lets you view the analysis results side-by-side with your requirements and easily incorporate suggestions.

Test Management Improvements

Test Plan Organization Updates

Previously, a project's test plans were organized into a single flat list. With the introduction of the Test Plans tree and folders, you now have a flexible and scalable method for test plan organization and navigation.

Note: If archived test plans existed in a project before Jama Connect® 9.8, the system performs a one-time move to relocate all archived plans into a user-managed folder called "Archived test plans." You can remove or keep this folder. All subsequently archived test plans remain in their original location. For example, the system doesn't automatically relocate newly archived test plans.

Improved activity logging and confirmation messages for activities when adding, removing, and moving items in the test plan tree

• Bulk move items in the Test plan tree confirmation and activity log

• Duplicate and delete test plan confirmation.

• Users with a test runner license can restore deleted test plans from the project activity tree.

Enhanced Performance

The following options have been improved for significantly faster runtimes:

• Auto-creating test groups by dragging and dropping test cases from the tree to the dotted line container in the test groups page of a plan.
• Creating a new cycle.
• Viewing test runs within a cycle (loading the test runs table).
• Adding a test case to a test group
• Reordering test cases in a test group
• A large batch update for "Sync Test Runs to Test Cases." 

Baseline Updates

Baseline Single Item View
In Jama Connect 9.13.0 and later, baselined items open in Single Item View. This view comprehensively displays all versioned and non-versioned fields, including attachment and link counts, fully capturing the item's state when the baseline was created.

Note: Baselines Single Item View only opens when you select an item from a baseline.

Baseline In-App Comparison
The "Comparison Information Bar" feature is now available from baseline in-app comparison. This feature is designed to communicate when there are updates or no changes when you compare baseline to baseline or baseline to current items.

The baseline comparison shows when items have been removed or deleted from their originating source. We have also adjusted the comparison colors and styles to enhance the comparison view's accessibility.

When an item is added to a source and a new baseline is captured, the added items are now displayed in green when comparing baseline to baseline or baseline to current.

Usability and Accessibility Updates

As part of the ongoing focus to adhere to WCAG 2.2 standards, we've made the following updates:

• The color palette was refreshed across Jama Connect to ensure a contrast ratio of at least 4.5:1 in the visual presentation of text.

Updated Add Item Experience
Previously, a window opened for you to add draft text when you added a new item or container. While the window was open and the item was in a draft state, you were prevented from performing other actions in the application. If the open draft item was a test case item, you were prevented from using rich text when writing test steps.

Now, when you add a new item or container, the page opens in an in-app tab, which allows you to perform other tasks while an item is being authored.

You can also write test steps with rich text while the test case is drafted.

Document View Updates

• The default view for all items in Document View now includes Name and Description until an admin updates the configuration.
• The "Quick add" option is now available from the Inline Insert drop-down menu.
• When the Stream is disabled in the Admin settings, the Comment icon is no longer be visible in Document View.

Reports History
HTML reports now include a link that opens in a separate browser tab instead of requiring the report to be downloaded first.

Embedded Filter Enhancements

The following updates have been made to embedded filters that you access through the Filter window:

• Under Create rules, you no longer have to add an embedded filter when defining conditions that must be met.

When you open the Add embedded filter window, you see the following enhancements:

• The Select a Project drop-down menu now includes only the options Current Project or All Projects.

• The button to save the addition of an embedded filter is now disabled until all included conditions are filled out. You can't insert an embedded filter where a field is left blank (see below).

• If you edit a saved embedded filter, a new option allows you to remove it.

If an embedded filter contains conditions that are broad in scope, such as searching across All Projects or placing a wildcard in a text field, a new inline alert indicates that performance might be slow when executing the filter. If this alert is visible, change the conditions to narrow the scope of the search.

New Review Center Notification Settings

To reduce unwanted email notifications and enhance control of preferred ones, we've made the following updates:

• On the Review Center page, the options for review notifications are now grouped under Approval review notification settings (there must be an organization or process admin to update these settings).
• The wording of the options themselves has been updated for clarity and additional control:
  
  • "Notify moderators when participants complete reviews."
  • "Notify participants when other participants complete reviews."

• On the Initiate review page, the notification settings options are now grouped under Notification settings (you must be a review moderator to see these settings).
• The wording of the options themselves has been updated for clarity and additional control:
  
  • "Notify moderators when participants complete the review"
  • "Notify participants when other participants complete the review"

• Review participants  no longer receive due date reminder emails for any review they have already completed

End-of-Life Announcements

Trace Matrix
As announced in the Jama Connect 8.76 release notes, the 12-month+ transition period has ended, so Trace Matrix is no longer available in Jama Connect. This decision was guided by Trace View's superior capabilities and significantly higher usage (over 20x) and the objective to simplify the available options for traceability analysis in Jama Connect.

This change doesn't impact most users because Trace Matrix was disabled by default in the Jama Connect 8.78 release, and only an organization admin could re-enable it.

Note: this change does not impact Trace View and Coverage Explorer.

BIRT Reports
BIRT reports are no longer available with this release. We decided based on low usage, security, and performance concerns. Also, Jama Software® last created reports in this format a few years ago, which further influenced our decision. Our community reports already offer multiple versions of the same data, and we will provide similar alternatives for:

• Review Center Comments Report
• Test Plan Detail
• Test Plan Summary

Their Customer Success Manager contacted those leveraging custom BIRT reports to investigate options. If you need help deciding which reports in your instance are BIRT, you can just select the report in your production instance (before its upgrade to 9.13) and then go over the detail at the bottom of the dialog box. Contact your CSM If you have any concerns.

Technical and Administration Improvements

Authentication and User Management
User attribute management is now limited to organization and user admins. Users can no longer update their user attributes from the My Profile area of the application.

SAML authentication configured systems are now compatible with the following auto-account provisioning features:

• Invite a new user by email from a review
• Invite a new user by email from the Comment Stream
• SAML new user first-time login

Organization and user admins no longer update attributes manually because configured systems automatically update user attributes during the authentication flow.

SCIM Integration Improvements
This release provides additional enhancements to the SCIM API's performance for user and group provisioning. This improvement primarily affects Azure Active Directory integrations.

General Maintenance and Library Updates

This release also includes updates to several libraries and foundational technology components. These updates align with our continuous improvement objectives to support usability, performance, and security across the application.

REST API Updates

GET Relationships Performance Update and Transition
We have deactivated the previous method and parameters for calling GET /relationships. This transition focuses on performance enhancements and introduces improvements in the integration experience.

Introduction of lastId Paging

• Utilizing the lastId field is crucial for reaching a maximum of 1000 results. For details on implementation, refer to the REST API Cookbook.

Benefits of lastID Paging:

• Reduced System Load—Using lastId paging significantly reduces the system's load, mitigating potential performance and system stability concerns.
• Improved Integration Performance - The transition to lastId paging enhances the overall performance of your integration with Jama Connect.

Promoting Categories APIs from Labs to v1
The following APIs are now available in v1:

• GET /categories
• POST /categories
• PUT /categories/{categoryPathId}/visibility
• GET /items/{itemId}/categories
• POST /items/{itemId}/categories

Test Management
This release also improves performance when using the /testruns API endpoint.

Resolved Issues