Product Update: QACube Version 3.0
The QACube Quality Assurance Platform for DevOps has taken another big step forward with the new release of QACube 3.0, by adding an entirely new component to display metrics and KPIs, their history and trends. The newly implemented structure functionality allows companies to use organizational, process, or other structures to view their data besides the existing Project, Application, Portfolio and Release Views. Development Component got an easy-to-configure Dashboard View, while Platform Component has invested effort in Importer enhancements.
KPI Component
Get Transparency on your Company’s Product Health
Aggregated view of metrics and KPIs on any level of an organization, business process, product level or other structure.
At-a-glance indication of current status with traffic lights on KPIs.
High-level overview for management levels.
Detailed Information on Data
Drill-down functionality to detailed view for application responsible persons and other interested stakeholders.
Historical and Trend Charts
Historical Line Charts to display historical and current data, and whether they are hitting a threshold.
Trend Charts to track long term progress of metrics.
State-of-the-Art Navigation
The Treemap Drill-Down is another way to navigate through the structure levels and see aggregated metrics and KPI Traffic Lights.
An Intelligent Search allows to jump easily to the level in the navigation structure you’re interested in.
KPI Configuration
The KPI Configuration allows to add new KPIs and metrics and configure them accordingly.
Add and edit KPIs, set thresholds and weights.
Add and edit metrics, set thresholds, moving history average period and weights.
Testing Component
Drill-Down Functionality in Public Status Report
All widgets that offer drill-down in widgets of the Status Report have now also the drill-down possibility for Public Reports.
Enhanced Structure View
The Structure View on the Start Page is now also available for Defect View.
The Structure Treemap was enhanced to display the numbers in the Treemap sections.
From the Structure Treemap a Status Report can directly be created and the selected Structure View will be saved as a new Portfolio in “My Portfolio” on Start Page.
Status Report Improvements
Now it is possible to save custom widget height for Status Report widgets that had adjustable height (Milestones Overview, Notes, iFrame Widget, Image Widget, Portfolio Overview, Release Overview, Production Readiness Verification Environment Overview).
For grid widgets (Milestones Overview, Portfolio Overview, etc.), it is now possible to save the selected columns in the Status Report Template.
Development Component
User-friendly Dashboard
New engine for Dashboard layout allows easy widget sizing and positioning.
Platform Component
Structure Import
The existing views of Project, Application, Portfolio and Release has been enhanced with a Structure View. Structure allows to cover different views of your data, e.g. on an organizational or business process level.
Import of structure with Excel Structure Importer.
Structure can be used in Testing Component as well as in KPI Component.
Import of Metric Data for KPI Component
A new Excel Importer allows to import any metrics for KPI Component.
Email Notifications Available
Users can receive Email Notifications for various events.
Customization of parameters for Email Notification in System Settings .
Users can configure which notifications they would like to receive.
Improvements in Importers
Various importers have been improved to allow faster loads and offer enhanced functionality.
Jira Importer supports all issue links to create Project/Application Structure.
Jira Importer has been enhanced with a JQL filter possibility to reduce data import.
Jira Xray supports import of the Test Case Regression type from a custom field.
Accelerated Project Import for Jira, Tosca and Spira Importers.
Product Update: QACube Version 2.10
The QACube Quality Assurance Platform for DevOps is now available with several exciting new features, including enhancements for the new Development Component: drill-down possibilities into most graphics, new Sunbursts for Execution, Progress and Code quality, a Development Time Series graph, a Code Page with Statistics and easier handling of Repository Connections for system administrators.
Testing Component
See Details by Drilling down into the Graphics
Many widgets like Sunburst, Defect Matrix, Time Series or Pie/Bar Chart now allow to click on a dot or a bar to display the underlying data in the Core Data section.
The same drill-down functionality is also implemented in the charts in the Dashboard.
New Sunbursts for Execution Lists and Progress
Two new types of Sunbursts have been added to the widgets list in the Testing Component.
The Execution Sunburst shows the execution lists and the status of their test cases.
The Progress Sunburst shows the progress of the requirements and their workstate.
Development Component
New Code Page with Statistics
The Code Page shows the repository with the file structure of the code.
The new Code Page contains additional information about the lines of code, issues derived from the source quality tools, duplications, code coverage and execution of the unit test cases.
The Code Page can be personalized by hiding/unhiding columns, changing their position and using filters.
The Overview shows statistical information at-a-glance.
Time Series Chart with Code Metrics
The Time Series Chart displays various metrics derived from SonarQube that keep you up-to-date regarding code quality:
Number of total and open issues.
Information about the unit test errors, failures and the test success density.
Code metrics such as complexity, lines of code, duplicates and coverage.
Code Sunburst
A new type of Sunburst has been added to the Development Dashboard to display code information on each level of the code file structure:
Number of duplicated blocks of lines
Number of lines of code
Coverage (covered lines by unit tests)
Platform Component
New Connection for Source Code Tools
This new adapter allows to connect any source code management tool to QACube.
Connect easily any source code management tool and visualize source code structure and metrics in QACube.
Merge Applications
So far, in the Repository Connections only the merge of projects was possible. With the QACube Release 2.10, it is now possible to merge the applications for import as well.
Possibility of Duplicating Repository Connections
Save time by copying the existing Repository Connections.
New Repository Connections had to be created from scratch. With the QACube Release 2.10 it is possible to copy the existing connections and modify them as needed.
New Feature Highlights: Version 2.9
Visualize the most important Project results in the new Relase Dashboard
Set different “quality gates” or KPIs for the release and define ranges for Requirements, Test Cases, Test Instances and Defects per Release Stage.
If a particular KPI is not within the defined range, a warning message will immediately indicate a breach of any range that has been preset.
show warning if more than 22% of failed Test Cases have no Defects linked.
The Statistics Overview Section displays the number of Projects/Applications, Warnings, Requirements, Test Cases, and Defects in the selected Release.
Check out the Video Tutorial of the New Release Dashboard!
New Adaptors support connection to more Source Systems!
New Print Solution provides customized printout of Widgets
Select between A4 “portrait” and “landscape” printing.
Widgets can be removed or resized for printing.
Additional blank pages can be added in order to rearrange the Widgets on the page.
New Feature Highlights: Version 2.8
New Statuses “Blocked” and “Not Completed” are available for Test Execution
The ALM Test Status Section and all Widgets containing Test Execution Status information have been enhanced with the new Statuses “Blocked” and “Not Completed”.
Test Execution Status now also displays “Blocked” and “Not Completed” Test Cases.
Track the progress of Requirements
In the ALM Progress Page, Time Series, and Sunburst Widgets you can now visualize the progress of the Requirements.
The progress can be displayed according to the Requirements Statuses, including: “Planned”, “In Work” and “Completed”.
Use the new “Codebook” to configure Types, Statuses, and their respective colors
The new Codebook enables the Administrator to configure the labelling for graphics.
This new functionality enables the Administrator to dynamically configure the labelling of the Requirement Status codes, and Requirement and Test Case Types. The newly configured labels appear in ALM Requirements and the Test Cases View, as well as in the Widgets Pie/Bar Charts, Requirement Status Bullet Chart, and Test Case Type Bullet Chart.
- You can set different colors based on the Types and Statuses, which will be automatically reflected in the Pie/Bar Chart Widgets including: Requirements Types (e.g. Story, Requirement, Improvement, etc.) and Statuses (New, In Progress, etc.)
- Test Cases: Types (e.g. Functional, Regression, etc.)
Rename Requirement Statuses, Requirement and Test Case Types to meet your needs.
Set your own colors for each customized setting referenced above.
Learn about the additional value from other QACube 2.8 enhancements
Risk Management can now also be configured in a centralized section such as Milestones.
It is possible to set the number of rows to be shown in the ALM Pages Tables (Requirements, Test Cases, Execution Lists, Defects, Tasks, Progress), which improves the performance of the QACube ALM Grids.
A company-wide setting can be activated to show a Pop-up Message after each Login to warn the users about displaying the Client Identifying Data (CID).
There is a new Info Icon in the Widget header with the ability to display the description of each Widget.
