Release 3.0.0

New and noteworthy

Traceability model

SECollab now allows you to implement your very own Traceability model. This comes through a set of 3 features: the resource types, the queries, and the report templates / reports.

• Resource Types: you can now create custom types to make your resources more specific. With this, you can say that all resources having DOORS as their tool and a custom doors property set to SYSTEM are "SystemRequirement". Other resources where the tool is doors and the same custom doors property is set to SOFTWARE would be another resource type labelled "SoftwareRequirement". This will allow you to create traceability within your data using custom links, such as a link "systemToSoftware" that would track how system requirements are translated to software requirements.
• Queries: queries will help you track how your traceability is done throughout your data. For that, you may create a query to see SystemRequirement artifacts linked to SoftwareRequirement artifacts.
• Report templates and reports: Report templates allow you to build a reporting view based on a given query. This reporting is a full featured report: you can create chapters, down to any number of levels, and each chapter can be just an introductory chapter (not linked to a specific query), or serve a display purpose (by being linked to a query and an available display style). Reports are an application of a given template on a set of Designs. This allows for one template to evolve, and let all your reports be automatically updated.

Project templating

Now that you have such features on resource types, queries and report templates, you may want to share those across your projects and configurations. That's what the Project template feature is all about. It's still very new, and we plan for quite some enhancements around that feature, but it's already working good: just create your administration data in one configuration, create and download a template, then it's up to you to deploy that template on any configuration and project you want to share that in.

User management: LDAP, archiving

SECollab lets you provide LDAP parameters to authenticate against the LDAP server instead of directly using SECollab. This frees you of the pain involved by creating all users "by hand". Just register any number of users you might want directly from the LDAP server, make them members of any projects they belong to, and you're good to go.

Solved issues

Capella

This release fixes an issue that prevented publishing a Capella design directly to the server and forced publishing to a file.

Known issues

The list of known issues can be found on the known issues page.

Migration notes

This version requires going through a migration. To start this migration:

• back up your data
  • if running on the Jazz platform, proceed with the backup of Jazz' data and indexes as per the tool documentation
  • while your application server is shut down, copy (or zip) the workspace folder that is used by SECollab
• deploy SECollab
  • follow the Updating SECollab guidelines
• start the migration process
  • start your application server
  • head to https://secollab.acme.com/secollab/setup in your browser
  • connect using administrator credentials
  • read and be careful to understand the implications of starting the migration
  • agree to the migration notice
  • start the migration
  • once the migration is done, head over to https://secollab.acme.com/secollab/