What's New in Zephyr 2.5

Zephyr will be launching its new version Zephyr 2.5 on Tuesday, April 21, 2009. Zephyr 2.5 comes armed with more advanced features that make the work of QA team just like its name, a breeze.
  • Requirements Application
    - Build and organize a Requirements tree, either at a Global level or a Release level
    - Drag-n-drop Global Requirements into a particular Release
    - Author Requirements in a WYSIWYG editor
    - Link to Requirements anywhere in your environment
    - Attach documents to Requirements
    - Map Testcases to Requirements
    - Map Requirements to Testcases
    - Quick view into Requirements coverage in Repository, Testcase Creation and Execution applications
    - Quick view into Testcase coverage in Requirements application
    - Requirements-to-defect traceability
  • Personalization
    - Application window sizes
    - Window positions
    - Additional resizing of windows and pop-ups
  • Customizable data grids
    - Additional columns added
    - Selectively add and remove columns
  • Additional Metrics
    - 3 new metrics in Projects: Requirements Coverage, Requirements-Defects by Status, Requirements-Defects by Priority
    - Department level Requirements Coverage
  • Expanded Testcase Execution
    - Test step level status changes, notes (or actual results) and attachments
    - Mapped requirements
  • Automation Integration
    - Instantaneously update results of test automation run via Zephyr APIs
  • JIRA Integration
    - Integration with custom fields (limited)
  • Unicode (UTF-8) Support
    - Support for multiple languages
  • Multiple Attachments
    - Add multiple attachments to testcases
    - Add multiple attachments to executed testcases, including at the test step level
  • Excel Import
    - In addition to standard fields, now import test automation details (Name, ID, Execution Path) from Excel
  • UI Improvements
    - Tooltips on execution schedules in Testcase EAS application
    - Descriptions on tooltips of Release tabs
    - Resizable windows for Detailed Metrics, Automation Launcher, Testcase EAS Assignments
    - Navigation controls in application tooldock and release tabs
  • Performance Improvements
  • Bug Fixes

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