In this release:

Release date: May 15, 2024

Enhancements

License Server Administration

• You can add a descriptive tag to a license, making it easier to identify and differentiate one license from another. See Adding a Descriptive Tag to a License for more information.

Violations Explorer - Recommendations

• The Prioritization tab has been updated to better support common use cases.
• A Recommendations section has been added to the Prioritization tab to assist developers in assessing, triaging, and prioritizing violations. See Recommending Violations to Fix for more information.
• Recommendations includes a new feature called the CVE Match which assists developers in assessing whether the violation may contain a security vulnerability. See CVE Match for more information.

Violations and Test Explorer - Linked Issues

• Improvements to the Violation and Test Explorers allow you to:
  • Streamline the creation of tasks/bugs/work items in 3rd party external systems such as Jira or Azure DevOps based on violations or test failures.
  • Take advantage of bi-directional links to/from DTP to/from external systems.
  • Un-link tasks/bugs/work items from DTP violations or test failures.
• See Violations Explorer and Test Explorer for more information about those explorer views.

Web Accessibility Issues (WCAG) widget and drilldown report

• SOAtest users can now use the new Web Accessibility Issues widget view web accessibility issues grouped by violation impact.
• The widget includes a drill-down report that allows you to filter the issues by web accessibility guideline categories.
• See Web Accessibility Widgets for more information about the Web Accessibility Issues widget and report.

Enhanced support for automation user in CI/CD workflows

• Added granular permissions required by automation user:
   - createProject - enables the user to create a new project
   - uploadReport - enables the user to upload reports to Data Collector
   - deleteBuild - enables the user to delete builds
• Made public an API for deleting a build that supports concurrent deletion of builds.
• Made public an API for creating run configurations.
• See Setting Up an Automation User for more information.

Coverage Widgets and Explorer

• Added support for showing runtime coverage data for Application Coverage workflows.
• Runtime coverage data is differentiated from other coverage data in widgets and the Coverage Explorer.
• See Viewing Runtime Coverage Data for more information.

Other Notes

• Machine Learning features no longer require the Machine Learning license feature. The features are now available to team leaders and team members of a project with the appropriate permissions. 
• External System integrations no longer require the external systems license feature. 
• User-Locked licenses have been renamed to Named-User licenses to match the EULA.
• Usernames are now logged when bad credentials are used to login.
• Added support for Oracle 23c.
• Added support for PostgreSQL 16.
• Added support for integration with Jama Connect 9.8.
• Added support for additional Work Item Types when creating linked issue in Azure DevOps.

Deprecated or No Longer Supported

• Oracle 12c is no longer supported.
• Java API for creating custom processors is no longer supported.
• Integration with VersionOne is no longer supported.

Software Shipped with DTP

The following software is shipped with DTP 2024.1:

• Apache Tomcat 9.0.89
• Java Azul OpenJDK 11.72.19-ca

Resolved PRs and FRs