News Archive for 2020

Spira v6.7 Released: Source Code Management, Git and Markdown Previewing

December 11, 2020 Product News

We are pleased to announce the release of the latest version of our award winning test management SpiraTest system, application lifecycle management SpiraTeam platform, and enterprise agile planning platform - SpiraPlan. The new version (6.7) provides a completely revamped source code management module, with inline code difference viewing and more seamless Git integration. This release also includes a new markdown (.md) previewing capability as well as a number of general bug fixes and enhancements.

Inflectra’s Spira Platform Now Integrates with Salesforce

December 8, 2020 Press Release

December 8, 2020, Washington, DC, USA: Inflectra - a global software development company headquartered in the Washington, DC area, announced the release of a new Salesforce integration for its Spira family of products. The new, powerful plugin provides an end-to-end application and IT lifecycle capability for Inflectra’s on-premise and cloud customers. 

Inflectra Adds More Pricing Tiers to its Spira Family of Products

December 8, 2020 Company News

Effective December 7, 2020, Inflectra is announcing additional pricing tiers for SpiraTest, SpiraTeam, and SpiraPlan - both on-premise and cloud-hosted subscriptions. The move is aimed at streamlining the purchasing process for new customers.

Spira Plugin for Salesforce.com Now Available

December 3, 2020 Product News

Here at Inflectra, we love making our customers' lives easier—that’s why we integrate with so many other tools. We are excited to announce that a brand-new integration with Salesforce.com has just been released and is available for on-premise and cloud customers.

With Jira Server Being Discontinued, Inflectra Offers Easy Migration for Atlassian Customers to Its Spira Platform

December 1, 2020 Press Release

December 1st, 2020, Washington, DC, USA - Today Inflectra - a leader in software test management and enterprise-level IT portfolio management platforms, reaffirmed its commitment to releasing its flagship Spira products as both cloud-hosted and on-premise options. The company also charted a solid migration path from Jira Server for Inflectra’s many customers in the regulated industries where on-premise solutions remain prevalent. The move is in response to Atlassian’s (NASDAQ:TEAM) announcement about the end of sales and the eventual discontinuation of support for Jira Server.

Inflectra Offices Closed for U.S. Thanksgiving Holiday November 26-27th, 2020

November 26, 2020 Company News

Inflectra's Offices are closed on Thursday, November 26th, and Friday, November 27th, 2020 in observance of the U.S. Thanksgiving public holiday.

We will reopen for business as usual on Monday, November 30th, 2020.

If you have an urgent technical support issue, please submit a help desk ticket on our website.

Rapise v6.6 Released - Enhanced Git and Azure DevOps Integration

November 13, 2020 Product News

We are pleased to announce the release of the latest version of our award winning automated software testing solution - Rapise. The new version (6.6) provides enhanced support for the Git distributed source code management system, enhanced integration with Microsoft Azure DevOps (ADO), as well as many new usability and performance enhancements.

TTC and Inflectra Announce Strategic Partnership

November 12, 2020 Press Release

TTC and Inflectra today announced the start of an exciting partnership, leveraging Inflectra’s industry-leading software testing and portfolio management tools alongside TTC’s established consultative practices. By utilizing both companies’ offerings, clients can access additional resources from forerunners in each respective field, enabling the way to transformative outcomes. 

Inflectra Offices Closed for U.S. Veterans Day Holiday - November 11th, 2020

November 11, 2020 Company News

Inflectra's Offices are closed on Wednesday, November 11th, 2020 in observance of the U.S. Veterans Day public holiday.

We will reopen for business as usual on Thursday, November 12th, 2020.

If you have an urgent technical support issue, please submit a help desk ticket on our website.

Protech Automated Their Dynamics 365 Regression Testing using Rapise and SpiraTest from Inflectra

November 10, 2020 Company News

Protech was looking to automate much of their regression testing and integrate these tests with a test management system. The company needed a solution that would quickly and simultaneously test updates to its multitude of systems to ensure smooth functionality while managing requirements, test cases and defects. Manual testing lacked efficiency and was impractical for anything more than critical systems testing. Rapise and SpiraTest allow the Protech team to automate regression testing and improve QA.

Oney Bank Improved Productivity of Managing Projects & QA Using SpiraTest from Inflectra

November 4, 2020 Company News

Oney Bank was managing their QA and project management on a suite of outdated tools. After thorough research, they elected to migrate to Inflectra’s SpiraTest platform to modernize their front office and back office QA systems. Using SpiraTest, Oney Bank is managing requirements, test cases, and defects in customizable and scalable workflows all in one tool.

Inflectra and Inmarsys Partner to Boost Their Offering in Health and Medical Devices Markets

October 28, 2020 Press Release

Inflectra has announced that on October 27, 2020, it signed a partnership agreement with Inmarsys Limited - the UK-based tech consultancy. The latter company’s proven track record and wealth of experience in safety-critical software development in regulated industries make it a great fit for Inflectra’s software solutions that are widely used in healthcare, medical devices manufacturing, transportation, and financial industries in the USA and Europe. Inflectra and Inmarsys Limited are especially excited about strengthening their joint offering for customers looking for risk mitigation, analysis, and management tools, with software testing, validation, and verification at the center of this partnership.

End of Life for Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.0 and 1.1 on November 14th

October 28, 2020 Product News

As of November 14, 2020, Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.0 and 1.1 will no longer be supported by Inflectra's cloud hosted SaaS products, including SpiraTest, SpiraTeam, SpiraPlan and KronoDesk. All endpoints will be required to support TLS 1.2 after this date in order to function properly with these products.

Migration Tool for Tricentis qTest Now Available

October 27, 2020 Product News

Several of our customers have been looking to migrate from some older, legacy test management systems such as Tricentis qTest that have seen a decline in active development. Thanks to the wonders of APIs, we have just released a new test management migration tool that makes it easy to migrate from qTest to SpiraTest, our award winning test management system.

Spira v6.6.1 Released: Baselining Enhancements and Bug Fixes

October 12, 2020 Product News

We are pleased to announce the release of the latest version of our award winning test management SpiraTest system, application lifecycle management SpiraTeam platform, and enterprise agile planning platform - SpiraPlan. The new version (6.6.1) provides some key enhancements to the requirements and test case baselining enhancements added in v6.6. This release also includes a number of general bug fixes and enhancements.

Inflectra Offices Closed for U.S. Columbus Day Holiday October 12th, 2020

October 12, 2020 Company News

Inflectra's Offices are closed on Monday, October 12th, 2020 in observance of the U.S. Columbus Day public holiday.

We will reopen for business as usual on Tuesday, October 13th, 2020.

If you have an urgent technical support issue, please submit a help desk ticket on our website.

Requirements Management Import for ReqIF Files Now Available for SpiraTeam

September 16, 2020 Product News

Several of our customers have been looking to migrate from some older, legacy requirements management systems such as Intland CodeBeamer, Retina, Siemens Polarion,IBM Rational DOORS, IBM Rational Requirements Composer and SystemWeaver that have seen a decline in active development. Thanks to the wonders of APIs and the ReqIF interchange format, we have just released a new requirements management migration tool that makes it easy to migrate from these tools to SpiraTeam, our award winning requirements management and ALM solution.

Migration Tool for PractiTest Now Available

September 14, 2020 Product News

Several of our customers have been looking to migrate from some older, legacy test management systems such as PractiTest that have seen a decline in active development. Thanks to the wonders of APIs, we have just released a new test management migration tool that makes it easy to migrate from PractiTest to SpiraTest, our award-winning test management system.

On-Demand InflectraCon 2020 Virtual: Inflectra's Agile Testing and DevOps Conference

September 8, 2020 Press Release

September 8, 2020, Washington, DC, USA - Inflectra announced that its annual Agile Testing & DevOps Conference - InflectraCon™ 2020 will be offered as a fully virtual and "on-demand" experience on September 29 - October 2, 2020. Inflectra has fully embraced the virtual conferencing and is making InflectraCon™ 2020 on-demand - allowing all talks to stream for 24 hours on each of the four conference days

Inflectra Offices Closed for U.S. Labor Day Holiday September 7th, 2020

September 7, 2020 Company News

Inflectra's Offices will be closed on Monday, September 7, 2020, in observance of the U.S. Labor Day public holiday.

We will reopen for business as usual on Tuesday, September 8, 2020.

If you have an urgent technical support issue, please submit a help desk ticket on our website.

Inflectra’s SpiraTeam Named Leader In ALM Data Quadrant

August 31, 2020 Press Release

September 2, 2020, Washington, DC, USA - Inflectra has been named a leader in Info-Tech Research Group’s 2020 Data Quadrant for Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) for the company’s world-class ALM platform - SpiraTeam. SpiraTeam garnered a composite satisfaction score of 8.4 out of 10 in four areas of evaluation: Net Emotional Footprint, Vendor Capabilities, Product Features, and Likeliness to Recommend when compared to other leading ALM solutions on the market.

Retiring IE11 Support for SpiraTest, SpiraTeam, SpiraPlan, and KronoDesk

August 13, 2020 Product News

With Windows 10 and the release of Microsoft Edge in 2015, we have seen continued decline in the usage of Internet Explorer by our customers. This has accelerated since the release of the new Edge browser earlier this year, which is now available for older versions of Windows. Microsoft itself strongly discourages using Internet Explorer as your default browser. Several years ago Microsoft also stopped updating Internet Explorer to any modern web standards. 

We will therefore be ending our support for Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) at the end of March 2021 for our browser-based products.

Spira v6.6 Released - Baselining, Kanban WIP Support, Planning Enhancements

August 7, 2020 Product News

We are pleased to announce the release of the latest version of our award winning test management SpiraTest system, application lifecycle management SpiraTeam platform, and enterprise agile planning platform - SpiraPlan. The new version (v6.6) provides many new features for customers using SpiraTeam and SpiraPlan, with some additional enhancements, bug fixes, and performance improvements for all three flavors of the system.

TurtleSpira Plugin Released to Integrate Spira with TortoiseGit and TortoiseSVN

July 23, 2020 Product News

We are pleased to announce the release of the new plugin for the popular TortoiseGit and TortoiseSVN source code management clients that integrates SpiraTeam and SpiraPlan with Tortoise. This lets developers streamline their code management workflows and easily associate code revisions with requirements, tasks and incidents assigned to them in Spira.

Microsoft Azure DevOps Integration Enhancements

July 20, 2020 Product News

We are pleased to announce the release of some updates to our integration with Microsoft Azure DevOps. The updated version of our plugin streamlines the integration configuration and adds some key productivity enhancing features for general users.

Inflectra Launches Spira Implementation Services To Streamline The Platform Adoption

July 20, 2020 Company News

As more and more customers are adopting and implementing our Spira platform (SpiraTest, SpiraTeam, SpiraPlan, plus our additional tools and services such as Rapise, KronoDesk, and TaraVault), we are announcing the general availability of new Inflectra Implementation Services. Our new Implementation Services will speed up the adoption of Spira and reduce the burden in migrating existing data and customizing reports to meet the needs of business users and stakeholders.

Rapise v6.5 Released - Chrome Edge Support Enhancements

July 17, 2020 Product News

We are pleased to announce the release of the latest version of our award winning automated software testing solution - Rapise. The new version (6.5) provides updated plugins for the Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge (Chromium) browsers as well as many new usability and performance enhancements.

Spira v6.5.2 Released - Baselining, Test Customization, DevOps Visibility

July 13, 2020 Product News

We are pleased to announce the release of the latest version of our award winning test management SpiraTest system, application lifecycle management SpiraTeam platform, and enterprise agile planning platform - SpiraPlan. The new version (6.5.2) provides many new features for customers using all three editions of the Spira platform, including support for baselining, customization of the manual testing process, and the ability to have visibility of your user stories in the DevOps toolchain.

Inflectra Offices Closed for U.S. Independence Day Holiday - July 3rd, 2020

July 2, 2020 Company News

Inflectra's Offices are closed on Friday, July 3rd, 2020 in observance of the U.S. Independence Day public holiday.

We will reopen for business as usual on Monday, July 6th, 2020.

If you have an urgent technical support issue, please submit a help desk ticket on our website.

RemoteLaunch 6.0 Released to Allow Load-Balanced Test Automation

June 17, 2020 Product News

We are pleased to announce the release of RemoteLaunch 6.0, the powerful test automation integration framework for SpiraTest. The new version provides support for load balanced test automation. This is the case where you have a large number of tests to run on a large pool of available machines. RemoteLaunch was originally designed to only execute a test set sequentially on a single machine, this new version allows you to have parallel execution across a test automation pool.

Inflectra Offices Closed for Memorial Day Holiday May 25, 2020

May 25, 2020 Company News

Inflectra's Offices are closed on Monday, May 25th, 2020 in observance of the Memorial Day public holiday.

We will reopen for business as usual on Tuesday, May 26th, 2020.

If you have an urgent technical support issue, please submit a help desk ticket on our website.

Rapise v6.4 Released - Enhancements to WebAppProfile, Dynamics 365 and SAP UI5

May 18, 2020 Product News

We are pleased to announce the release of the latest version of our award winning automated software testing solution - Rapise. The new version (6.4) provides many enhancements, quality of life improvements, bug fixes and time saving usability improvements. It includes enhancements specifically to the Web Application Profile feature and many of the libraries used to test complex applications such as SAP Hana and Microsoft Dynamics 365.

Inflectra’s Agile Testing & DevOps Conference - InflectraCon - Goes Virtual

May 12, 2020 Press Release

May 12, 2020, Washington, DC, USA - Inflectra Corporation has announced that its global conference on Agile Software Testing & DevOps: InflectraCon™ will move forward as a fully virtual event on September 29 - October 2, 2020. The annual conference is a 4-day, multi-track event, bringing together world-class keynote speakers and cutting edge tutorials for mastering Inflectra’s software QA, test management, program management and test automation platforms.

Spira v6.5 Released - Portfolios, Programs and Gantt Charts

May 12, 2020 Product News

We are pleased to announce the release of the latest version of our award winning test management SpiraTest system, application lifecycle management SpiraTeam platform, and enterprise agile planning platform - SpiraPlan. The new version (6.5) brings powerful new project portfolio and program management functionality to SpiraPlan, new planning views to SpiraTeam, and new dashboards to all the products, including SpiraTest. This is one of our most exciting new releases, and is now available for both cloud and on-premise customers.

Asana Plugin for Spira Now Available

April 22, 2020 Product News

During our InflectraCon conference last year, one of the key themes was Harmony, and how Inflectra's software and products can foster harmony in the product development lifecycle. One of the key ways we are able to do this is with our rich library of extensions and connectors for our products, available at no additional cost to our customers. We are pleased to announce that we have just released a new plugin for the popular Asana task tracking system.

Rapise JavaScript Reference Documentation Site Launched

March 31, 2020 Product News

Almost a year ago to the day, we launched Rapise 6.0 with a brand new centralized documentation site - RapiseDoc - that made it easier for users to find the information they need to automate their testing. We have now created a brand-new JavaScript reference - JSDoc - that makes it easier to find all of the language syntax and semantics in one place.

Spira v6.4 Released - OAuth Support & Reporting Enhancements

March 16, 2020 Product News

We are pleased to announce the release of the latest version of our award winning test management SpiraTest system, application lifecycle management SpiraTeam platform, and enterprise agile planning platform - SpiraPlan. The new version (6.4) includes support for enterprise Single Sign On (SSO) using the OAuth protocol. That means you can now connect to Spira using Google, OKTA, Microsoft ADFS and many other common platforms. In addition, this new release has several key reporting enhancements that customers have been asking for.

RadView WebLOAD Plug-In Released for RemoteLaunch

March 11, 2020 Product News

We have just released a new RemoteLaunch plugin for RadView WebLOAD. This allows SpiraTest, SpiraTeam, and SpiraPlan in conjunction with RemoteLaunch to manage the scheduling, execution and reporting of WebLOAD automated performance and load tests.

Jump-Starting Your Rapise Test Automation Project with Our QuickStart Package

March 6, 2020 Product News

Embarking of a test automation project can be a daunting task. Especially when you are dealing with a large, complex application such as an ERP system or CRM platform, it can be overwhelming to decide what tests should be automated, how to teach your testers (who may be functional experts rather than experienced automation engineers), and how to get started. Based on our experience helping customers get started with test automation using our Rapise automation tool, we would like to introduce our new standardized Rapise Quick-Start implementation package.

Our Plans for Dealing with the Coronovirus Situation

March 3, 2020 Company News

We recently published an email to our employees outlining our current plans for dealing with the unfolding Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic that is affecting communities and countries around the world. We felt that it would make sense to make parts of this email public to our customers and partners so that they know what our current plans are, and also it may be useful for other companies looking to see how they should respond.

***We have updated this blog to include a section on Inflectra's response as it pertains to giving a short term relief to our customers and community in general.****

Inflectra Offices Closed for U.S. Presidents' Day Holiday February 17th, 2020

February 17, 2020 Company News

Inflectra's Offices will be closed on Monday, February 17th, 2020 in observance of the U.S. Presidents' Day public holiday.

We will reopen for business as usual on Tuesday, February 18th, 2020.

If you have an urgent technical support issue, please submit a help desk ticket on our website.

RemoteLaunchX 5.0 Released for Cross-Platform Testing

February 5, 2020 Product News

We are pleased to announce the release of RemoteLaunch X 5.0, our cross-platform agent for orchestrating automated software testing. This update to RemoteLaunch X brings support for data-driven testing, more configuration features and support for the latest versions of Java.

Inflectra and Avalanche Labs Partner to Expand Opportunities in Central America and Colombia

February 4, 2020 Company News

We are delighted to announce that Inflectra has signed a partnership agreement with Avalanche Labs. This partnership combines Avalanche Labs’ years of experience working with some of Mexico’s premier companies, expertise in software testing, requirements management, test automation, and project delivery with Inflectra's suite of software quality assurance and agile program management solutions as well as automated software testing tool.

Rapise 6.3 Released to Provide Rapid and Easy Testing of SAP Hana Applications

January 29, 2020 Press Release

Washington, DC., January 29, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Inflectra® is pleased to announce the release of Rapise 6.3, the latest version of its Rapise test automation platform. Rapise is the most comprehensive and powerful automated testing solution on the market. With its latest version, Rapise provides support for testing SAP Hana UI5 ERP applications, a new RPA execution monitor for Robotic Process Automation (RPA), and the ability to run Rapise tests in a containerized DevOps pipeline, including Docker and Kubernetes.

Rapise v6.3 Released - Adds Support for SAP Hana UI5

January 28, 2020 Product News

We are pleased to announce the release of the latest version of our award winning automated software testing solution - Rapise. The new version (6.3) provides support for testing SAP Hana UI5 ERP applications, a new RPA execution monitor for Robotic Process Automation (RPA), the ability to run Rapise tests in a containerized DevOps pipeline (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.) and many usability and performance enhancements.

Inflectra and NVP Software Solutions Take on the Canadian Tech Market

January 22, 2020 Company News

On January 13, 2020 Inflectra and NVP Software Solutions signed a partnership agreement that will expand Inflectra's presence in the Canadian market. Inflectra's agile software testing, QA/QC and program management platforms complement and strengthen NVP's business model of providing customized solutions to customers in Canada.

SAP Hana Support Coming Soon to Rapise

January 22, 2020 Product News

We are pleased to announce that we will be soon releasing our initial support for the SAP Hana ERP Platform. Our Rapise test automation platform has already been proven for use in complex ERP and CRM applications such as Microsoft Dynamics and Salesforce, and now that power and flexibility is coming to the SAP ecosystem.

Unlimited TaraVault Source Code Licenses With Every SpiraTeam/Plan Subscription

January 20, 2020 Product News

We are pleased to announce that our cloud-based source code management system - TaraVault will no longer require a separate fee to use and an unlimited number of TaraVault users will be included for free with every SpiraTeam and SpiraPlan subscription.

Inflectra Offices Closed for U.S. MLK Day Holiday - January 20, 2020

January 17, 2020 Company News

Inflectra's Offices are closed on Monday, January 20, 2020 in observance of the U.S. Martin Luther King Jr. Day public holiday.

We will reopen for business as usual on Tuesday, January 21st, 2020.

If you have an urgent technical support issue, please submit a help desk ticket on our website.

SpiraTest, SpiraTeam and SpiraPlan v6.3 Now Available

January 8, 2020 Product News

We are pleased to announce the release of the latest version of our award winning test management SpiraTest system, application lifecycle management SpiraTeam platform, and enterprise agile planning platform - SpiraPlan. The new version (6.3) provides several key enhancements, including: saved views, shareable folders, new document upload controls, and major usability and performance enhancements.

Spotlight on Spira 6.3 - Saved Views, Saved Filter Enhancements and More

January 7, 2020 Product News

As we get ready for the release of SpiraTest, SpiraTeam, and SpiraPlan 6.3 later this week, we'd like to introduce some of the new functionality that will be available in this release. This release includes many important 'quality of life' enhancements that have been requested by many of our customers. These ideas came from our customer visits in 2019 as well as feedback we received online and during the InflectraCon 2019 conference. If you have ideas of how we could improve our products, please let us know, or better still - come to InflectraCon 2020.