9.17.x Jama Connect® Customer-Validated Cloud Release Notes

Non-production Release date US: 2024/11/21

Production Release date US: 2025/01/31

Introducing Live Trace Explorer™ — Beta

Live Trace Explorer™ provides comprehensive and detailed insights into your complex product, systems, and software development processes. This feature automates the measurement of requirements traceability, coverage across disciplines, and your organization’s toolchain.

Live Trace Explorer provides an at-a-glance snapshot of the traceability of your product's requirements to help you quickly and easily evaluate coverage, address any gaps, and proactively manage associated risks by answering two key questions:

• How complete is my traceability? Completeness is measured by the coverage percentage of the items in the diagram based on the total number of expected relationships for items within each tile. These roll up into the Trace Score for the entire diagram.
• What is the quality of my traceability? Paths between any two tiles represent all of the relationships that exist between the items of those two tiles. Suspect links appear red to let you know the quality of traceability in your project is at risk.

Organization admins must enable the Live Trace Explorer feature before it appears in projects and as an option in Admin Project settings. By default, this feature is disabled. 

Now, the the Live Trace Explorer feature is visible in Admin Project settings and available to configure for users with a creator license. 

Export a Live Trace Explorer™ Diagram

You can select Export to PDF from the Actions menu to export a diagram to PDF. This feature uses your browser's printing capabilities to save the diagram as a PDF, which is useful for tracking metrics over time and monitoring progress.

View Relationship Rules from Live Trace Explorer™ 

You can select View relationship rules from the Actions menu to view relationship rules that were configured in Admin for your project's diagram. The results are displayed in table format.

To learn more about the Live Trace Explorer, see the Jama Connect Help.

Jama Connect Advisor™ — Multi-Statement Analysis

Jama Connect Advisor™ is a cutting-edge tool that uses engineering-based natural language processing (NLP) to help you craft precise, high-quality requirements. It assesses requirements against INCOSE Rules and EARS Notations, offering a quality score and tailored recommendations for improvement.

The latest features take your requirements to the next level:

• Batch Analysis — Effortlessly analyze multiple requirement statements simultaneously, saving valuable time and streamlining your workflow.
• Real-Time Feedback and Editing — View recommendations in Document View and implement changes instantly, allowing seamless adjustments while creating or reviewing content.
• Downloadable Report—The downloadable report allows you to track your progress across multiple sessions. It provides a benchmark of the quality score, helping you continuously improve your written requirements.

Test Management — Improved Test Cycle Management

Previously, users created test cycles from complete groups of test cases in a plan. Now, when you build a cycle you have the previous functionality with the added opportunity to filter, sort, and individually select cases of interest. 

Additionally, when you edit an existing test cycle, you can now add or remove test case associations to adjust its scope. Adding case associations generates new runs within the cycle while removing them deletes the corresponding runs.

Note: Runs that contain data in the "Assigned to" or "Test run" status fields can't be deleted from the edit cycle wizard (the same as previous functionality).

Enhancements to Trace View Filters

When you filter items in Trace View, you can effectively manage and analyze your data. This release provides additional filters to further refine your results.

Along with filtering by item type, you can now apply these filters:

• Downstream relationship type
  • Any items tagged as a relationship
• Last modified
  • Today
  • Last seven (7) days
  • Last thirty (30) days
  • Last ninety (90) days
  • Last six (6) months
• User
  • Created by me
  • Assigned by me

REST API Access Control

The previous REST API access model was restrictive, granting full access to all users or none. To address this, a more sophisticated access control was developed. Implementing this solution allows organizations to assign tailored REST API permissions to individual users and groups, ensuring that only authorized personnel can access sensitive data and perform critical tasks.

REST API Access Control has a user-friendly interface where admins can quickly add or remove access rights for individual users and groups. Changes take effect immediately, making managing permissions easy and keeping the API secure. This centralized control guarantees comprehensive security and access management.

The new REST API Access Control features include:

• The Access Control page is located in the Admin area of Jama Connect.
• Access Control wizard to help configure the desired type of access.
• Ability to search for groups/users you want to give access.
• Ability to remove REST API access from groups/users.

Implementation:

Cloud customers must contact Support to enable and configure REST API. 

Enhancements to Jama Connect Accessibility 

In this release, we enhanced accessibility landmarks throughout Jama Connect. These landmarks offer a more structured and navigable experience for users who rely on assistive technologies like screen readers. We've added landmarks to headers, navigation menus, main content, asides, and footers to simplify navigation and improve usability. This update is a key step in our accessibility roadmap, paving the way for a more inclusive, efficient, and user-friendly platform. 

IDP-based OAuth 2.0 

Streamlined User Authentication for Integrations

This new feature allows requests to be sent on behalf of specific users rather than using the integration's own credentials. This enhanced integration eliminates the need for users to log into Jama Connect and manually configure credentials, making it ideal for integrations with tools that don't directly rely on Jama Connect.

Key Benefits:

• Simplified User Experience — No more manual credential setup for users. 
• Enhanced Security — Improved control over authenticated processes. 
• Scalability — Well-suited for large-scale integrations where users interact with Jama Connect data indirectly. 

Ideal for:

• Customers with strict authentication requirements seeking greater control.
• An organization with large-scale integrations where users access Jama Connect data without direct awareness.

Implementation:
Cloud customers must contact Support to enable IdP-based OAuth 2.0 properties. Currently, the feature is built around Okta.
Note: This feature offers a more secure and streamlined authentication method for integrations, benefiting both users and organizations.

Search Performance

The enhancements to the Search Service significantly improve search performance and the user experience. These enhancements provide faster search results, reduced resource consumption, and a more responsive system through query optimization and multi-threading.

REST Documentation — Swagger

Examples and schema details are now better aligned with system requests and responses. 

General Maintenance and Library Updates

This release includes updates to several libraries and foundational technology components, such as Java and Spring. These updates align with our continuous improvement objectives to support usability, performance, and security. 

Resolved Issues 

References

• Success Programs
• Success Catalog
• Datasheets
• Request a Solution Offering or Training from the Success Catalog

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