Saturday, May 25, 2013

TargetProcess v.2.24.1 (pre 3.0)

Hi folks,

Last two months we worked on v.3 stability and added many many small features and improvements. New build will be available in a week (or so).

Here is the list of changes:

New Cards: Test Plans and Test Runs

More helpful boards can be created for QA now. Board below shows Test Runs by Test Plans. You can create new Test Runs quickly here.

New Cards: Releases, Iterations and Team Iterations Cards

List of Releases by Projects, List of Iterations by Projects or Team Iterations by Teams — all that can be created. Such boards help to overview releases and change them quickly.



New Lanes: Create Date, Start Date, End Date

Create boards with simplistic dates columns to see what was created, started or completed day by day. Use filters to restrict how many days you see in date axis, like ?It >= today - 10(days)



This board shows added user stories, features and bugs by dates and by projects.




Prioritization with Shift by Default

When you create a new board, it will have Prioritize using Shift setting by default. It prevents sudden and unintended prioritizations.

When you start dragging, you will see a help message to hold Shift key to prioritize.

Easier Team/Project Relation Assignments

When you create a team, you can quickly assign several projects to this team. When you create a new project, you can quickly assign some teams:




Views Improvements

Now you can send links to Views quickly. Also there is a short link that is available in a format http://targetprocess/entity/87443.

Quick Add section added into View as well:


Editor was improved and restyled. Now you can add pictures via drag and drop


Tabs are now collapsed into More button if there is not enough space:



Board States Setup

Direct link to States modification is added into board setup. Now it is much easier to access entities Workflow:



New Top Menu

Top menu was re-designed to match tp3 style


Getting Started and Help

Maybe it is not that important to existing users, but new users will be grateful for the getting started scenarios built-in into TargetProcess:



Updated User Guide can be found at http://guide.targetprocess.com 

Search Improvements

  • It is possible to search inside custom fields
  • Search by numbers works (finally!)
  • Search indexing works several times faster.

Performance Improvements

  • Board loads with less requests to server
  • Board requests are run in parallel when possible to reduce total time
  • Batch operations take significantly less time
  • View popup opens faster now with lazy loading