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We’re happy to announce the release of Codebeamer’s new version: Codebeamer 2.2! Read on to find out what’s new.
Codebeamer 2.2 provides significant improvements to Scalability/Expansion, Review Hub, Template Management and Configuration, Agile response to Codebeamer Customers, and more. Codebeamer 2.2 also introduces the merge of Codebeamer & Codebeamer X and the Chinese and Korean language options.
High level objectives
We've already provided great digital thread integration, with PTC products such as Windchill, and PTC Modeler, using the OSLC standard. In this release, we've added integration with Microsoft's Azure Repos - Source Code Management, OSLC- Catia Magic through Partners.
Review hub
With the Codebeamer 2.2 release, we are introducing user experience improvements like review cancellation, creation of actionable review findings, and adding new moderators to streamline the review process. These new functionalities will make the workflow more efficient for users and are addressing key usability challenges.
The improved user experience includes:
- Archiving unwanted reviews
- Taking ownership of reviews
- Capabilities to apply filter and narrow time
- Wizard based review creation, that allows you to set thresholds upfront
- Separate tabs for Comments, Statistics, and History
- The Review Feedback page allows you to collaborate & communicate with different users
- Create Review Finding Item lets you create action items from the comments
- Review Hub Administration allows for a moderator role
The merge of Codebeamer and Codebeamer X
We are merging Codebeamer and Codebeamer X into a unified product. This means that users will have access to both interfaces within the same platform. The primary benefit of this integration is seamless access to projects using your preferred user interface. This merger will simplify the user experience, while also ensuring that our platform can adapt to the diverse preferences of our customers.
In ‘One Codebeamer’ the system administration can decide which UI will be your preferred one.
Template management and configuration
We are introducing Protected Configurations for Deployment and Copy to Working Sets. This new feature simplifies deployments and configuration by avoiding human errors. It provides the ability to lock deployed trackers, so deployed trackers won’t be overwritten during the next deployment. System administrators will be able to unlock individual trackers.
They can also do it on project quality just like. They can deploy a project once and then unlock it and manage your configuration whether in production or wherever the project has been deployed to you.
The feature introduces a project-level configuration audit which also includes filtering capability, and this saves the project administrators a lot of time. Identifying relevant changes to the project configuration.
Extend background operations
Operations such as Mass Edit from Codebeamer, and Excel export, now run as background jobs. The key benefit here is reduced wait times and uninterrupted workflow. This allows users to focus on other tasks while long-running operations are completed in the background. Users will receive notifications and/or updates. Once the operation is done users will receive a notification indicating whether it was successful or a failure. The enhancement allows our users to maintain their workflow momentum, focusing on their core tasks, and the system efficiently handles the heavy lifting in the background for completing these operations.
Baselined release
The feature we provided is the ability to view the content of a release in a specific baseline, which enables the users to easily explore the content of a release dashboard instead of building complicated reports to achieve the same result.
Complete text search in filters
In Codebeamer 2.2 users can search for formatting in plain text within the same kind of search query within, the tracker, traceability, coverage, browser, and more. This consistent text filtering experience that makes finding information easy, with consistent results across “Description” and “Wiki Text Field Values” will provide consistency to users.
Source integrations
We are introducing Azure Repos integration to create and manage a New External Repository in Codebeamer that allows manual or scheduled Full Synchronization and offers the option to configure Web Hooks. The SCM Commits are now traceable on Codebeamer items.
This integration is going to help our customers create and manage these external repositories in connection with Codebeamer. They're going to be a couple of different versions that customers can use to make sure that the information synchronization is taken care of between Codebeamer and Azure Reports.
This feature is going to give users a very tight and reliable collaboration between the two tools and very robust traceability.
Performance and scalability
We once again improved the performance and scalability of Codebeamer.
Based on our measurements:
- We were able to improve the overall response time by 30%
- Some specific areas of improvement also were opening the document added view which was 20% faster
- Opening the Sprint release view was 20% faster
- We increased the data set we use for performance testing to 1,000,000 items.
OSLC - Digital product traceability
Codebeamer 2.2 introduces DPT – OSLC via the following partners (CONSULTENS PS and INCQUERY LABS) for Catia Magic. This integration isn’t coming out of the box, customers who want to use this feature will have to work with one of the above-mentioned partners.
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Get more detail on Codebeamer 2.2 in our webinar replay
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