HP Quality Center Synchronizer What's New History

Document Release Date: July 2009

This file provides information about new or enhanced features introduced in previous versions of HP Quality Center Synchronizer.

What's New in Quality Center Synchronizer 1.20 (Released June 2008)

Adapter Service Provider Interface (SPI) is available to extend the Quality Center Synchronizer with adapters to additional systems (endpoints). You can now implement adapters for third-parties to synchronize Quality Center defects and requirements to records in other products.

Adapter SDK package includes the SPI, documentation, and testing package.

Upgrade fully supported from either Quality Center Synchronizer 1.00 or 1.10.

Upgrade of internal database (Postgres) is fully integrated in upgrade process.

Improved migration process. The Requirements Restore Tool is distributed as part of the Synchronizer client installation package. This tool is used as part of the migration process when migrating synchronization tasks built using Quality Center Requirements Synchronizer for Rational RequisitePro Add-in to the latest version of the Quality Center Synchronizer.

Client improvements to handle a large amount of links.

New Create Link wizard enables convenient, robust link creation flow.

You can now view the properties of unmapped fields.

You can test email settings during link configuration.

Constant value mappings can now be set for Date and Number fields.

The Quality Center Synchronizer now supports running tasks at specific times of the day on specific days of the week.

ClearQuest feature level 6 repositories are now supported.

UI improvements, such as:

The Quality Center Synchronizer remembers the last tab position enabling you to more easily compare or copy settings between links.

Endpoints now have names instead of indexes.

The Quality Center Synchronizer can now send email for tasks with a "Passed with errors" status.

The Quality Center Synchronizer now returns data from newly created records to help ensure that both endpoints contain exactly the same data. For example, if during synchronization, the destination endpoint creates a value that does not exist in the source endpoint, the new value is sent to source endpoint.

Improved log and error messages.

Bug fixes.

What's New in Quality Center Synchronizer 1.10 (Released December 2007)

Quality Center Synchronizer's installation is now interactive and completely graphical user interface based, and contains both deployment and configuration. In the previous version, users launched a non-interactive batch file.

Quality Center Synchronizer now enables synchronization of Quality Center requirement data with Rational RequisitePro.

You now have the option to upgrade the Quality Center Synchronizer database during the server configuration phase of installation.

Work with a previously installed PostgreSQL server is supported. The database of the previous version is upgraded to the next version without any loss of data.

In Quality Center Synchronizer 1.00, the use of public filters in Quality Center and ClearQuest was supported. In Quality Center Synchronizer 1.10, the use of private filters is now also supported.

In Quality Center Synchronizer 1.00, incremental synchronization could be scheduled to run at specified time intervals. In Quality Center Synchronizer 1.10, you can now also choose to schedule incremental synchronization to run daily at a set time.

The number of synchronization tasks that can run concurrently is now limited for improved performance.

The user does not need to have administrator privileges on the Quality Center or ClearQuest repository to allow synchronization. The user only needs to have the appropriate create, update, or delete permissions to handle the events defined for the links.

In Quality Center Synchronizer 1.00, one link only could be configured at a time. In Quality Center Synchronizer 1.10, you can now simultaneously configure multiple links.

The Events and Filters tab in Quality Center Synchronizer 1.00 is now divided into two separate tabs.

Logging is improved, including adapter logs that are better integrated into the task logs, and log viewer improvements.

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