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If you plan to use ALM Octane or if you are already using it, Shift is the automated migration tool that allows you to migrate part or all of your current projects' data from ALM/QC (including UFT Tests), Silk Central and Jira (including Xray test management data) into ALM Octane and ValueEdge.
OpenText offers various migration services to ALM Octane and ValueEdge:
As the migration from ALM/QC, Silk Central and Jira to ALM Octane or ValueEdge is not just about the data itself but it includes other aspects, such as customization and workflow, there is some preparation to be done before the actual data migration should start. This page will provide you with the information needed to get started and our ALM Octane Customer-Facing R&D team is ready to assist you throughout the migration process including planning, guidance on Shift usage, running a data migration POC on a project you select, troubleshooting, assisting with the production migration. Just reach out by sending an email to your account manager or to go.octane@microfocus.com!
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Change log:
Migration from Jira and Xray
- Migrating entities from Xray Cloud
- Support for automapping of lists and fields from Jira and Xray (server and cloud)
- Migrating attachments on Suite Runs and Apllication Modules instead of Requirement complement for ALM Octane
- Migrating comments on Suite Runs instead of Requirement complement for ALM Octane
Migration from Silk Central
- Migrating Keyword Driven Tests from Silk Central and added a script that allows execution of Automated Tests from ALM Octane through CI, using Test Framework
- Added support for exporting entity mapping for external Issues and Requirements. The mapping can be later used for Micro Focus Connect synchronization
- Performance improvements for attachments and assets migration
- Added strategy to migrate Application Modules up to a specified depth
- Enhanced libraries migration - picking up the ones visible only in the current project
Migration from ALM/QC
- Migrate multiple projects to a single Octane workspace
- Ability to merge ALM/QC test folders and test-set folders into the same Octane Application Module tree
- Migrate ALM/QC test configuration to ALM Octane memo UDF
- Migrate Requirements from QC to Octane User Stories
- Migrate ALM/QC list-fields to Octane tags
- Performance improvements
Shift 4.0 comes rebranded for OpenText, includes support of migration profiles that can be reused, the validation of configuration properties before the migration, migration of JUnit and NUnit test automation assets from Silk Central, support from Jira 9, etc. Please review the full change log below.
Change log:
Please download the specific tool and documentation that you need and feel free to contact us at go.octane@microfocus.com if needed.
ALM Octane SHIFT 3.0 includes support to migrate manual assets from Silk Central version 20.6 and above to ALM Octane. The preview mode displays statistics of the project to be migrated from ALM/QC and Silk Central. Please review the full change log below.
Change log:
Please download the specific tool and documentation that you need and feel free to contact us at go.octane@microfocus.com if needed.
Change log:
1) Upgraded commons-text and jsoup libraries to fix Apache Commons Text (CVE-2022-42889) and other vulnerabilities
2) Fixed connection through BasicAuth proxy to ALM/QC and Octane
3) Added support for connection through NTLM proxy to Octane
4) Added the possibility to map non-string ALM/QC field to Octane field of types string, long string and memo
All documentation for Shift 2.0 is relevant for 2.0.1 so please find it under version 2.0 below before starting.
ALM Octane SHIFT 2.0 comes with a GUI wizard besides the previously existing command line interface for the migration of ALM/QC projects, including UFT tests, and Jira projects, including Xray test management entities, to ALM Octane.
Change log:
Please download the specific tool and documentation that you need and feel free to contact us at go.octane@microfocus.com if needed.
This version of ALM Octane SHIFT provides a solution to migrate out-of-the-box Jira entities, including test management entities created by the Xray plugin for Jira, from a Jira Project to an ALM Octane Workspace, with small limitations.
Please download and review the presentation and specific user guides for more details.
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