What’s New in Visure Requirements ALM V8.2

Compatibility and Migration WARNING

Please review this chapter carefully, as there may be database changes that can affect compatibility between versions.

Visure Requirements 8.2: This version is not compatible with Visure Requirements 8.1. There is a small database schema change, and 8.1 clients will not be able to connect to Visure 8.2 server.
Visure Requirements 8.1: This version is compatible with Visure Requirements 8.0. There are no database schema changes, and 8.0 clients can connect to Visure 8.1 server, even though new features will not be available, e.g, modified since the last baseline.
Visure Requirements 7.2 and older versions: These versions use an older database schema and require a database migration. Once the database is migrated to the latest version, Visure Requirements 7.2 and older clients will not be able to access the database.

What´s New in Visure 8.2

Visure Authoring

Usability Improvements

Visure 8.2 brings a whole plethora of UI and usability improvements, from streamlined interfaces to better icon placements to make the experience of Visure more pleasant to the end user.

Expanding and Collapsing Hierarchies

Visure 8.2 allows users to expand and collapse entire item hierarchy trees and branches from the document browser and document navigation panel, making the navigation through the documents easier.

The traceability tree view also incorporates the option to expand the tree to display all the links of a given item:

Scrolling

Scrolling in Visure 8.2 is done asynchronously so that the loading of items feels smoother and quicker.

Multiselection

Users can now perform actions in bulk in a more effective way by selecting multiple items quickly through the selection combo box in the toolbar or directly from the checkboxes.

These checkboxes are available both in the list and document view and allow users to quickly select all or none of the items in the document.

Data Models

It´s now easier to create and edit data models. The new automatic link reorganization takes care of link positioning in the diagram, whereas the new “save” button allows for a smoother diagram editing experience.

Dark Mode

The dark mode has been improved to provide a more immersive experience:

Background Actions and In-App Notifications

Actions expected to take more than several seconds, such as import, project creation, review, and test run creation, are now performed in the background, allowing the user to continue working while the original action is completed. The progress of these tasks can be checked in the notification center:

Once the task is complete, users will receive a completion notification with the status of the action and any possible warnings:

Comments

It’s now possible to enter the same comment over multiple requirements at once, facilitating reviews and approvals. Users can simply select multiple items and click on the Add comment button.

Dashboard Widgets

New widget configurations allow stacked bar widgets to display absolute numbers or percentages, allowing users to have a clearer picture of the status of the project.

Excel and Google Sheets Import

Spreadsheets are one of the most common formats to edit and exchange requirement, test, and risk information. Visure 8.2 now supports the import of MS Excel files and Google Sheets. The import process provides a powerful interface to map columns on the fly and create new attributes. The import process will automatically detect items that are already in Visure and highlight the changes so that the user can make a more informed decision on which items to import. The import process also supports the synchronization of links.

This powerful import process allows users to perform round-trip operations by exporting requirement information, editing it offline, and reimporting it back.

Workflows

Workflows are an essential part of the requirements, risk, and test management process, as they allow the status of the different types of objects and who can perform the transitions between them. Visure 8.2 supports a native workflow capability, allowing the creation of workflows for any item in the project.

Review Synchronization

Reviews help engineers establish a formal review and approval process, identifying who needs to review which requirements or documents. The existing review process is now completed with a new synchronization capability that allows users to identify review items that have been modified since the review was created and synchronize the changes back to the original document.

Project Configurations

Project Managers have all configurations of the project available directly from the project configuration window, where they will be able to create new attributes, workflows, and link types, as well as configure the review and test management process:

New Email Notifications

As part of the existing email notifications, Visure 8.2 now incorporates a new one that allows project administrators and other users to receive an update when a user signs a baseline or when the baseline has been fully signed.

Repository and Project Settings

Visure 8.2 incorporates a major step in taking control of the repository and project by allowing the ADMIN user, Super Administrators, and Project Administrators to access and edit the repository and project settings. These settings include:

Repository Settings

The repository settings allow editing all repository configurations, such as enabling reusability or traceability between projects, as well as configuring the email for the email notifications.

Project Management

The project management section allows administrators to create, edit, delete, destroy, and purge projects, as well as manage project templates.

Within the project editing, administrators will be able to manage the details of the project (code, name, description, scope, etc.) as well as user groups, access partitions, and access rights. Administrators will also be able to change the project settings.

User Management

The user management section allows administrators to create (Visure, Azure, Windows, ODIC), edit, delete, and destroy users.

Visure Desktop

Usability improvements

Export to Excel

The export to Excel incorporates several usability improvements, such as color export and more appropriate column widths.

Horizontal Scrolling in the List View

Horizontal scrolling has been improved to prevent undesired reloading of the height of items, especially when working with text attributes containing many characters.

Smart Sorting of Text Columns

When text columns include a combination of text and numbers, the sorting has been improved to reflect a more intuitive sorting as a combination of text and number sorting. In this way, PR_10, PR_20, PR_30, PR_100 and PR_200 will be sorted as:

PR_10

PR_20

PR_30

PR_100

PR_200

Whereas a pure alphabetical sorting would sort these items as:

PR_10

PR_100

PR_20

PR_200

PR_30

Import from Excel

The import from the MS Excel plugin now features many of the same improvements implemented in Visure Authoring, in which attributes can be created and updated during the import process without having to go back to the Visure client.

Along with the synchronization of existing and new attributes, the MS Excel plugin in Visure 8.2 allows the full synchronization of traceability by checking the “Overwrite existing links” option. This option will not only create new links but also delete links that may have been removed in the Excel spreadsheet, supporting a full round-trip to Excel for links.

Attributes in Traceability Matrix

The traceability matrix in Visure 8.2 now supports the selection of attributes in each column so that users can not only display all the links but also related information in each column, like the type of requirement or execution status.

Performance

Organizations need to support the demands of fast-paced markets with ever-growing amounts of data. Visure 8.2 improves the performance of specific areas related to:

Reorganize documents and folders
Check out items in bulk
Establishment of Global Parameters
Creation and reuse of components
Establishment of links via right-click Start/set
Sorting columns with links
Restore deleted items dialog window

New Email Notifications

Visure Server

Python Update to 3.10

The Python version used by the server to run scripts has been updated from version 3.8 to 3.10. This means that some scripts may need to be upgraded to align with the packages provided or deprecated in this version.

Remote Server Settings

The Remote Server Settings application allows remote users to configure certain aspects of the server, such as the authentication methods used (Visure, Azure Entra ID, OIDC, or Windows), select the log types, or upload Python scripts.

The Licensing configuration of the Remote Server Settings allows users to have a better insight into the license usage.

Administrators will be able to see the existing number of licenses, their expiration dates, and the number of licenses in use.

Administrators can also get more detail on the users using the licenses, in which repositories and projects, and whether they are active or not:

More Information on V8.2

Download the Complete Release Notes (PDF)