Development Testing Platform

In this release, we focused on helping you understand the impact of change with by providing additional context around your development data. We've also bolstered our support for standards compliance and compliance initiatives. Finally, we made several UI/UX enhancements to help you make sense of the data and identify potential risk in your application.

Understanding the Context of Change

The following features and enhancements provide greater context around the data presented in widgets, explorer views, and reports.

Improvements to the Change Explorer

The Change Explorer view includes several enhancements, such as greater filtering capabilities and the ability to view source control information. The updates not only improve usability, but create a greater understanding of how the change affect the overall risk associated with the application.

Widget Updates

The Violations - Changed widget has been updated and is now the Violations - Changed - Statistics widget.

Resource Groups

Resource groups are now part of the general release. The ability to aggregate data based on groupings of files and/or folders was introduced under beta in 5.3.2. Resource groups currently apply to static analysis runs, but additional quality activities will be supported in future releases. See the REST API documentation for details.  

Enhanced Dashboard Settings

You can now compare two builds directly in the dashboard by setting the baseline and target builds for the entire dashboard. See Configuring Dashboard Settings for details.

Metrics by Build

The new API marks another progression from time-based SDLC analytics to a build-based paradigm, which enables development teams to measure and understand changes with greater speed. All metrics widgets, reports, and explorer now follow the build-based paradigm, enabling you to view metric data for the selected target build.

See REST API for additional information.

Broader Support for Compliance

The following changes extend Parasoft's support for compliance and compliance initiatives.

MISRA Compliance Pack

The MISRA Compliance Pack is a suite of assets that enable you readily monitor compliance with MISRA guidelines, as well as demonstrate compliance for auditing purposes, that you can deploy to your DTP and DTP Enterprise Pack environment. The compliance pack is available as a separate download (contact your Parasoft representative).

Enhanced Support for Requirements Traceability

We've introduced a new requirements traceability REST API that enables you to associate code with quality artifacts. Parasoft development testing products natively support associating tests with requirements through comments or annotations. But if the code is not executed, it is difficult to determine what parts of the code have been associated with a requirement. The API allows you to programmatically configure the association of requirement IDs with files. DTP also ships with an example script to that demonstrates how to integrate with the API. For assistance with custom integrations, contact Parasoft Professional Services.

Improved User Experience

Developing software is hard, but viewing software quality data shouldn't be. We've made several enhancement to the DTP interface to deliver a better experience, including:

• Preset layouts for explorers (see Quick Layout Options).
• Preserved column groupings and order when navigating away from explorer tabs.
• Enhanced test configuration interface (see Test Configurations).
• More details in the Change Explorer (see Improvements to the Change Explorer above).

Additional Updates for DTP

• Updated project creation and configuration interface
• Ability to rename a project
• The Gate Summary widget has been deprecated and is replaced by thePolicy Center Gate Summary Widget 2.1 for DTP Enterprise Pack.
• Access to Project Center is disabled by default on new installation or when you upgrade to 5.3.3. See Project Center (DTP 5.3.3) for instructions on enabling Project Center

• The following assets have been deprecated and are no longer available by default:
   

  Build widgets	Build Results
  Code widgets	Check-ins (9.x)  Code Base Size (9.x)  Code Review (9.x)
  Compliance widgets	MISRA C 2012 - Compliance
  Defects widgets	Defect Trend  Enhancement Trend  New Defects By Week
  Project Center widgets	Iteration Burndown Requirements Burndown Tasks
  Test widgets	Coverage per Run (incl. 9.x) Coverage per Run Trend (incl. 9.x)
  Static Analysis (9.x) widgets	Errors by Category  Errors by Severity  Most Recent Errors by Category  Most Recent Errors by Severity  Static Analysis - Files  Static Analysis - Violations
  Tests (9.x) widgets	Coverage Functional Tests - Statistics Functional Tests - Summary Manual Test Sessions Tests (Files) Unit Tests Unit Tests - Statistics Unit Tests - Summary
  Dashboard templates	Agile Dashboard Architect Dashboard MISRA 2012 Dashboard Risk Dashboard
  Compliance rule map	MISRA C 2012

  These assets are still shipped with DTP and can be deployed manually. See Deploying Legacy Assets.
  
  

• The built-in dashboard templates have been updated. See Built-in Dashboard Templates.
• Support for primary group IDs in Active Directory integrations.

DTP Enterprise Pack

Resolved Issues

The following PRs and FRs were addressed in this release: