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What's new in Optimal Trace Enterprise:
The Optimal Trace - QADirector integration is now an Optimal Trace plug-in and once installed is accessible directly from the Optimal Trace Enterprise product menu. This streamlines the process of publishing information to QADirector and removes the 2-step export/utility approach. Risk factors and time values can now be initialized in QADirector from Optimal Trace. Quality metrics being managed in QADirector can be retrieved from QADirector and stored with their associated requirements in Optimal Trace. For Optimal Trace users this now provides insight into requirement quality and shows traceability from requirement to test to result to defect. You can install the Optimal Trace - QADirector integration from the installation media or download it from FrontLine.
As an alternative to manually adding and updating user information in the Optimal Trace Administrator user table, Optimal Trace now provides the capability to import and update user information from a directory service. A directory service is a software system that stores, organizes and provides access to network resource information across a Windows server domain. Optimal Trace supports directory service software, such as Microsoft Active Directory, that communicates with and/or hosts directory services using Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP). For more information, refer to the Managing Users and Groups chapter in the Optimal Trace Administrator Help.
Optimal Trace Enterprise now provides additional capabilities for managing users, groups and permissions. You can now define default project permissions for users and groups. A new option in the server component of Optimal Trace Enterprise allows you to enable project security as the default security setting for all new projects created in Optimal Trace Enterprise. For more information, refer to the Setting Project and Package Permissions chapter in the Optimal Trace Administrator Help.
You can set Windows Integrated Authentication as the default authentication protocol for projects saved in the Optimal Trace Enterprise repository. Using Windows Integrated Authentication allows you to suppress a login prompt when accessing Optimal Trace Enterprise projects provided users have a valid Windows user account name and password. For more information, refer to the Setting Up Windows Integrated Authentication topic in the Optimal Trace Enterprise Server Help.
The project and baseline delete capability has been moved from their respective Open dialog boxes to a standalone menu command on the Project menu.
An incremental search feature is available to help you quickly find items in the Open Remote Project dialog box and the Group and Users lists in Optimal Trace Administrator. This feature allows you to type the first few letters of a desired project, group, or user and quickly sort the list based on the specified search criteria.
The server component of Optimal Trace Enterprise 5.2 is now available in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions.
What's new in Optimal Trace Enterprise and Optimal Trace Professional:
This release of Optimal Trace includes a comprehensive SDK for building plugins for Optimal Trace. Plug-ins are Java components that are accessible from within the Optimal Trace client and can be used to integrate Optimal Trace with other third-party lifecycle tools. The SDK provides the ability to access project-level entities and query/create/modify artifacts within an Optimal Trace project. The SDK includes code templates to build your own plug-ins with comprehensive documentation on the objects and methods exposed in Optimal Trace. Development of Optimal Trace plug-ins requires Java programming skills. Documentation for the Optimal Trace Plug-in SDK is available on FrontLine.
This section describes known issues related to the current release of Optimal Trace.
When migrating an Optimal Trace database created in an Optimal Trace release prior to 5.0, you must perform an incremental migration. First, you must migrate the database to 5.0, and then proceed with the migration from 5.0 to the current release of Optimal Trace.
When migrating an Optimal Trace database created in 5.0, you must use the Migration Utility. For more information, refer to the topic "Migrating Remote Projects from 5.0" in the Optimal Trace Installation Guide.
When migrating an Optimal Trace database created in 5.1, the Migration Utility is not required. Instead, you are prompted to migrate the database when you start Optimal Trace Enterprise Server and connect to the database.
This section describes known issues related to the current release of Optimal Trace Enterprise Server.
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