What’s New

Master Object can be of application type or project type. Depending on the type, we can associate Master Object with datasets of the same type from various sources. This allows the user to see the data and metrics from different applications/ projects of the same or different source within a single object.

Also, we can make one Report for all merged datasets.

Once the desired structure is selected, its node tree will appear in the panel on the left, and the list of all available mapping entities will appear in the panel on the right.

There is an option to map either projects or applications to the selected structure, but not both at the same time.

For that reason, a drop-down menu at the top of the right-side panel allows a selection of the projects or applications exclusively.

ElasticSearch is an ultra-fast, document-oriented database, very suitable for intermediate storage of data imported into QACube.

By utilizing ElasticSearch, QACube is capable of quickly retrieving a large amount of data from the source system and incremental import into QACube relational database.

With Users groups, we assign rights to the User group faster and easier.

A user with the role of Systemadmin or Supervisor can archive a dataset.

Once the dataset is archived, the Status column of the dataset will contain the Archived information.

Defect Duration shows the average duration of defects from the moment of their creation date until their closing date (the duration is shown in days)

It tells the user how fast the reaction is to the appearance of the defect and its fix.

A user can see the metric maturity level history already with the initial page load.

It is possible to see the history of all metrics of the selected wheel in parallel and in a single place.

Besides using the name or the person in charge, a user can now easily find the desired structure element by entering the External ID of the searched structure node.

There is now a possibility to see the history of the last six recorded metric maturity levels in a form of a sparkline bar chart for each individual metric cell in the KPI Wheel Compare page table.

A user can now choose to have all the data pre-calculated and imported to the KPI Wheel as such. This option provides more flexibility if there is a need for special kind of metric aggregation that is not already available in QACube.

It is now also possible to export the filtered results from the Detailed View tree grid. Export can support filtering applied in any column filter of the tree table and the advanced filtering as well. 

The export of the tree table now provides the display of the parent structure elements in multiple columns. 

Now the user can show orange exclamation mark for the defined orange thresholds. With this option, the user can make a difference between warnings and issues.

There is a possibility of filtering data by warnings and issues. This helps the user to easily locate applications and projects with some problems.

We are checking daily RFC fluctuations with this new status.

There is also an additional overview of information about all different types of RFCs and the possibility to filter data from the Release Dashboard using RFC filters.

select the specific and the most important requirements and represent only their data into the contribution chart.

see the requirement information like a name, number of the test cases which are attached to the requirement, requirement’s contribution, and priority.

The Start page displays master applications or projects and corresponding core information for all datasets related to these master objects.   

The New chooser allows the user to select more different combinations of releases and environments. As the result of this new operation, QACube represents data for different combinations of releases and environments for different applications and projects.   

Ticketing Overview helps the user to find out useful information about:

• Mean Time to Resolve

• Quality of Incident Resolution

• Speed of Problem Resolution

• Quality of Problem Resolution

Changes Overview helps the user to find out about this information:

• Quality of Planning I (Change Information without Delivery)

• Quality of Planning II (Delivery without Change Data)

• Quality of Reliability

• Quality of Timeline Compliance

Deployment Volume widget has three metrics that represent the average daily number of deployment executions and the percentage/number of successful/failed executions. 

Deployment Speed is the widget with three metrics. Every metric selects data from Jenkins imported measurement, where there is a successful build job. 

The widget Development Performance shows four different metrics from Gitlab/Github imported measurement:  

• Total number of commits for the selected date range  

• Average number of commits per day  

• Average number of authors per day  

• Total number of merge requests for selected date range  

Threshold values will be automatically calculated using setup values for commits, authors and merge requests.  

find out easily the list of the changed requirements in the File Structure 

figure out impact of this change to the whole application through the list of affected files

Directly add a comment in the Historical Chart for everyone to see

Users can save a default structure that will be displayed when opening QACube

Users can save settings (last selection of the structure, structure node and View tab) and continue work in the same place before being logged out or switching the component

The new structure is user-friendly and allows at-a-glance view of the blue levels where the data is available

The View tabs can be moved into the desired position with drag and drop 

Metrics of ‘YES or NO’ type are automatically recognised by QACube and the configuration settings change accordingly.

Metric frequency can now also be set to quarterly for all types of metrics

Clicking on a value allows drill-down to the details of the respective value

Clicking on the structure element on top of a column lets the user jump directly to the next lower level of hierarchical structure

Metrics can be fact-based, automatically loaded from other sources, or gathered from the organization using questionnaires

The wheel shows dimensions, areas, themes, and their underlying metrics on every level within the structure 

For each KPI Wheel a questionnaire can be defined, which is afterwards sent as a link to each party who should answer the questions 

Questionnaires can be sent out regularly to gather answers over time

Historical Charts show the change over time for each metric

Charts can be displayed for any level within the structure

Compare metrics of different structural elements (e.g. teams or applications) and an at-a-glance view of the difference between their maturity levels.

See details of each metric in the table view for each structural element

Use Advanced Filters to search for specific metrics or e.g. for maturity level values that are < 4.0

Excel Export allows the user to export the table and do any additional modification they like with the given data

Additional 12 metrics from the Testing Component are now available in the KPI Component and can be combined with any of the KPI Views or KPI Wheels.

Possibility to display only the characteristics, or only the characteristics and KPIs, without going into metric details

Possibility to display only the alarming (red) data

Each view is a separate tab that can be restricted for users in order to allow access to confidential data to the selected users only

Do you have to display confidential KPIs? For each view, user access can be individually restricted in the KPI component settings

Selection between “RAG” and “at least one” method allows flexibility when adjusting the severity of the traffic light colours from green to red

Source Data Quality has been enhanced with metric import information to ensure clean data quality

The Treemap View now has the possibility to show the Traffic Light Status for specific characteristics, KPIs or metrics

Usability of the Heartbeat was the top priority and updates have been made to make it as easy as possible to use the Heartbeat

Preset filters allow to quickly analyse the Test Case repository to find which Test Cases need cleanup

The structure view for Defects has been enhanced with a table and a gauge chart to display additional Defect details on each selected structure level

Application tiles with detailed information

One-click navigation

Gauges for quick evaluation

Quick filters

Date range selection

Simple and easy-to-understand

Direct link to the causative elements (filtered elements in core data)

At-a-glance overview of open issues

Gauges for quick evaluation of the underlying metrics

Fading in and out of columns

Export to Excel

Icon colors matching the status

Core data by topic

Right after having source code checked in the Source Code Sunburst, all the files per requirement that have been affected by the change are shown.

Highlighted areas represent the spread of changes across the application, indicating risks and complexity of testing.

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Azure DevOps

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Jira Service Desk

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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.

Drill-down functionality to detailed view for application responsible persons and other interested stakeholders.

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.

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.

Add and edit KPIs, set thresholds and weights. 

Add and edit metrics, set thresholds, moving history average period and weights. 

All widgets that offer drill-down in widgets of the Status Report have now also the drill-down possibility for Public Reports.

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.

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.

New engine for Dashboard layout allows easy widget sizing and positioning.

Import of structure with Excel Structure Importer.

Structure can be used in Testing Component as well as in KPI Component.

A new Excel Importer allows to import any metrics for KPI Component.

Customization of parameters for Email Notification in System Settings .

Users can configure which notifications they would like to receive.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Number of duplicated blocks of lines

Number of lines of code

Coverage (covered lines by unit tests)

Connect easily any source code management tool and visualize source code structure and metrics in QACube.

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.