For restoring projects,Jira offers the built-in "Project Import" tool which allows partial, project imports (i.e. importing a specific project from a previous backup).
This tool has some limitations though; it cannot transfer apps/add-ons related data between instances unless apps are prepared for it.
Fortunately, since v3.3, Xray is able of taking advantage of this mechanism; on previous versions, issues would be restored but the testing data wouldn't.
Thus, you can now use built-in backup&restore facilities of Jira:
for copying a project from one Jira instance to another Jira instance (e.g. from staging to production, or from internal to a DMZ instance)
to restore a project upon some mistake/data loss has been done in that project within an existing Jira instance
Xray now provides a built-in migration utility for Zephyr for Jira, so you can easily migrate to Xray and take advantage of the many features Xray provides over Zephyr.
As you may still have some projects using Zephyr for Jira, you may now inline migrate the Tests and related data to Xray following a wizard.
This specific utility is available in Jira administration, under System > Import and Export > External System Export.
Learn more here.
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New gadgets: Requirements List and Overall Test Results
Enhanced time based filtering for gadgets
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Besides adding time based filters to the Test Runs Summary gadget, the Test Evolution, Test Runs List, Test Runs Summary gadgets where improved so that you may see results for the last X days.
This will allow you to see and assess only the most recent information based on the information of the past days
Two new gadgets to track QA progress in your Jira dashboards: Requirements List Gadget and the Overall Test Results Gadget.
The Requirements List Gadget provides an enhanced list of requirements, including hierarchical information (e.g., Epic > Story), along with completeness information and respective number of Tests, analyzed in the context of some version or Test Plan. This information is similar to the one seen at the end of the page in the Overall Requirement Coverage Report whenever drilling-down on some requirements.
The Overall Test Results Gadget provides an overview of the status of Tests, in the context of a version or Test Plan. Thus, you can see the number of Tests that passed or failed, displayed in a pie chart or in a table layout.
Learn more about these and all other gadgets here.
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Flat View for Test Repository and Test Plan Board
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If you're using Structure app to view and manage Xray related entities right from a "structure", the enhanced Xray extender now provides the ability to:
see and manage associations between Test Plans and Test Executions
choose to synchronize Tests to Test Plans whenever adding/removing Tests from the related Test Executions (e.g. if you add a Test to Test Execution, it can automatically be added to the related Test Plan(s))
choose whether to manage or not Tests directly under Test Plans
As more and more people use the hierarchical test organization via the Test Repositoryand the Test Plan Board, we introduce a new flattened view for easy visualization and selection.
While the default hierarchical view provides a way to see how Tests are organized, the new "Flat View" provides the means to obtain all Tests within a given folder, eventually filter them using some criteria, select a subset of those and then do operations with them, regardless of the folder they're stored in.
