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Re: Deployment Automation Process step suggestion

idobrovolskyi — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 09:20:15 GMT

Movie:
https://web.microsoftstream.com/video/cd73b55b-af0a-443a-94d5-bacb973c0e20?channelId=87e2673c-9846-4a67-b653-3393fa1f73c6

Shutdown banner for Pulse

vskyba — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 09:05:49 GMT

A feature, small but useful, which allows to inform everyone who currently
working with Pulse, that very soon it will be shut down.

Video presentation:

https://web.microsoftstream.com/video/8946c65a-b427-4fe3-97d6-73781b88f1d1

Re: VPN Speed Teller

Tedy Yu — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 06:11:42 GMT

You may watch the video of this idea at

https://web.microsoftstream.com/video/8ebee558-e7dc-46ac-b34c-5e0968f95eb1?channelId=87e2673c-9846-4a67-b653-3393fa1f73c6

Re: Git Authentication & Kind Reviews - Status changed to: Delivered

David Conneely — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 00:25:17 GMT

Re: Telegram bot for Octane

Yuri Dmytriev — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 20:52:31 GMT

Submitted as https://microfocusinternational-my.sharepoint.com/:w:/g/personal/ruly_weisbach_microfocus_com/EcCN59gHNcVBrXnPExeAtsoB79xanz4FUv9rT_gfSJpC7w?e=Csijqx

Re: Daily focus list in Octane

slin2 — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 18:11:51 GMT

Watch the Octane focus list movie

Re: BestMsg: very easy to add social feature to legacy application

Song Zipeng — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 09:54:22 GMT

If you are interested, please follow it on https://github.com/BestMsg/bestMsg

Permanent compare on Deliver Wizard

Mykhaylo Sydorenko — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 07:48:15 GMT

Every time before commit we review changes. For every modification we invoke Compare command. Idea is to do it automatically and switching between files should automatically switch between compare results.

PYMO system - "Put your mask on" alert

Saaroni — Wed, 03 Jun 2020 14:31:26 GMT

In the Covid-19 back to the office days we must make sure we keep the social distancing and wearing masks.

Sometimes people forget or don't remember to put their masks.

The PYMO system will remind us to put our mask on in case it identifies someone not wearing a mask.

Utilizing a simple camera and some ML tricks, the system will identify the people that are not wearing a mask and will alert them.

Re: Team(s)work in Silk Central

sebastian_kornexl — Wed, 03 Jun 2020 13:44:23 GMT

Working on that with

Re: Enable push notification for PPM

JessicaYang — Wed, 03 Jun 2020 08:01:42 GMT

We finally implemented the solution. A short demo video could be found here:

https://web.microsoftstream.com/video/493b6186-9667-4f11-a8af-f3258b462880

Re: Enable push notification for PPM

JessicaYang — Wed, 03 Jun 2020 03:28:36 GMT

, and planned to work on the implementation.

Re: Dimensions CM: Work area suggestion - Status changed to: Accepted

Alex Shevchenko — Tue, 02 Jun 2020 10:40:16 GMT

Working on that.

Re: VPN Speed Teller

Tedy Yu — Tue, 02 Jun 2020 10:03:21 GMT

Updates on June 3rd:

Modular POC passed today, now we are working hard on integrating multiple pieces from UTF/Mobile/LR/NodeJS/HTML5 into a final solution.

Stay tuned.

Support Board View touch event to present on LCD Views

slin2 — Tue, 02 Jun 2020 09:43:40 GMT

Support Board View touch event to present on LCD Views

Teams can create a scrum meeting on a big TV at the office and see all the time the updated status

Semi-automation inside Octane

Easton Liu — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 05:33:02 GMT

We can have a bit of automation for daily Octane operations, like the followings but not limited:

Assign Owner; Assign Sprint.

How?

1. A browser extension

2. It will add a new quick access panel to Octane page, inside which it offers shortcuts for daily missions

3. Select a user story or defect and then click the shortcut button, it will do the rest in an automated manner.

E.g.

Assign an owner to an item.

I have my team members listed in the quick access panel (Robo, Qubo)
By select an item and click the member's name in the quick access panel
It will do the rest in an automated manner:
1. Click on the owner field of the selected item
2. Type the name to filter the list
3. Select the user and apply

Issue Detector

SFlorin — Tue, 02 Jun 2020 07:50:22 GMT

In most of the cases the customer is able to see the outcome of the problem and not the origin of the it.

A scanner for settings and logs to detect issues on customer environments during record, generate and replay of a script. A new tab will be added for this to Vugen where the customer/support team will choose the step to scan(record, generate, replay).

Each protocol will have their own mecanism based on specific settings, defined problems and solution.

Re: Secure developers work areas using Micro Focus SmartCipher and Dimensions CM

Julian F — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 22:56:24 GMT

Looks like a browser issue. Firefox works, safari not so much. Have a vote 🙂

Re: Secure developers work areas using Micro Focus SmartCipher and Dimensions CM

Julian F — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 22:53:02 GMT

I like this one!! I would click the like button, but my thumb appears to be broken (at least my ability to like on the community site no longer works) Weird as I can do pretty much everything else on the site..

Re: "Similar Defects" - help users save time by indicating that duplicate entities may exi

Spiegel — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 19:24:01 GMT

Wow, this will save so much time.

Also for Features, please 🙂

Re: Social network dashboard - Status changed to: New Idea

Spiegel — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 19:21:59 GMT

This would be a truly valuable and insightful resource.

MF Pulse CI/CD: support for human-readable declarative versionable pipelines

Andrii Pitukh — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 19:08:12 GMT

Re: MFConnect Calculated Value Improvements

chrissc — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 18:56:38 GMT

Way cool...

MFConnect Calculated Value Improvements

gregorytaylor — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 18:51:48 GMT

3 improvements:

Add syntax to support the value for a calculated value being the Label of an enum instead of the name of the enum ( perhaps enum->labelValue

Enable the use of RichText properties in calculatedValues

Add a new Find variant: FindItemInRecursedProperty where the property is a relationship property. It will recursively fetch the property until the condition is true or the value of the property is null. The values of the property can span multiple datapools.

Filter date fields relatively 📅

Ehud Michelson — Tue, 02 Jun 2020 06:30:11 GMT

When using ALM Octane and trying to filter entity date fields, the “Before”, “After” and “Between” options on the date filter are limited to a specific date or dates.

Date Filter

So the suggestion is to add the following option to the Date filter:

X Days/Weeks ago or older/newer

For example, if I want to display aging defects then I will filter the Creation time field by:
8 Weeks ago or older

Another example: if I want to display the new defects created in the last week then I will filter the Creation time field by:
1 Weeks ago or newer

Similarly, we will add the following options to the filter too:

X Days/Weeks ahead or older/newer
Between X Days/Weeks ago and X Days/Weeks ahead

The adventurers who will join me in developing this idea are

Yfat 🦄
Channa 🥇

Allow users of Connect to see a tail of the log for a connection while it is running.

chrissc — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 16:07:40 GMT

In Micro Focus Connect, it would be useful if a user could see a tail of the log for a running connection.
Would also be helpful if the user could control the logging level.

In the Connect user interface:
The user would select a running connection to see the logging details.
A new details tab would be available: "Log".

The user would have some options on the Log tab:
1: Log level: [info, debug, trace].
2: Number of lines to display.
3: Auto load.
4: The log will be in Html format.

1: Log level.
The user chooses the logging level desired.
See log4j for descriptions of levels.

2: Number of lines to display.
Allows the user to load only the number of lines desired per load.
Each time the panel is refreshed, only a portion of the end of the log will be displayed.

3: Auto load.
If auto load is specified, the web socket will automactically push the log chages to the browser.

4: The log will be in Html format.
Using the log4j Html formatting capability to display the log in a Html format.
This allows the displayed log to be very easy to read.

LRC proxy service for on-premises load generator

sunbruce — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 15:54:03 GMT

Customers often encounter issues (submitted many tickets) when using on-premises load generators.

1. there is no easy way to fully test connectivity during configuration.

2. it takes a long time for customers to configure security/firewall to allow secure communication between OPLG and LRC runtime components (per test run; keep changing).

The proposal is to create a proxy service with fixed domain name.

The service relays the requests from OPLG to real destination.

LRC notifications

sunbruce — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 15:19:27 GMT

Extend LoadRunner Cloud to allow users to select interested events and get them via either email or Teams.

For example: system announcements, test run started, test run complettion, system errors etc.

Telegram bot for Octane

Yuri Dmytriev — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 20:38:42 GMT

I would like to have a telegram bot integrated with Octane to be aware of any comments waiting my response when I am not at my computer.

Telegram Bot Functional details:
1. Ability to recieve and send comments on Octane entities (Feature, User Story, Defect, etc)
2. Ability to get latest information about My Work bucket.
- Recieve notifications when new Item appeared in My Work.
- View all items in My Work

https://web.microsoftstream.com/video/aeba74e9-6a06-4c55-b43d-d5f4132b9a8d

Octane-Codeless Integration

GilNakache — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 14:56:03 GMT

Get Octane Manual Test into Codeless

Sales Keeper App

almogsa — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 13:57:55 GMT

Problem: During an important demo you have a problem and you need a quick solution?

Solution:
Using our new system you can create an emergency ticket by scaning QR code, that gather all the relevant information about your problem and it will notified all relevant people.
This mobile application using collective human intelligence and it will trying to solve the problem in more efficiency manner.

Re: Pulse notifications in MS Teams

Alex Shevchenko — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 10:55:44 GMT

Yes, that'd be great to have such notification!
Please go ahead with contributing to this project, Volodymyr.

Re: Pulse notifications in MS Teams

vrizunov — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 09:58:39 GMT

I would like to participate in this task.

May be, would be great to add daily notifications (every 24 hours) in Teams channel about: you have not completed all the reviews waiting on you.

Bind a UFT TO in the OR to an AI object and use it in all existing tests.

Anton — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 09:51:35 GMT

Currently if a UFT customer wishes to use AI in his existing tests, he needs to update the script lines.

If a single TO is used in a 100 places, the customer needs to update all 100 script lines.

The suggestion here is to add a new AI Object to the OR and bind the "regular" TO to it, so that every time it is used the AI object will be used instead.

This solution is build from 2 parts:

Design time:
1. add an ability to add AI objects to the OR.
2. add ability to bind existing TO to and AI object
3. [Optional] add some automation to this process using inspect and the TO rectangle to find relevant AI object.
Run time: when ever an operation on a TO is invoked:
1. if its a simple click or type, perform it using AI object
2. else use AI to detect, then find the real TO in the detected area and perform the operation using the TO.

The motivation of the feature is to allow customer adapt existing scripts and ORs to AI rapidly.

Allow user to 'watch' requests which they are interested in. [Dimensions CM]

VNikolaiev — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 18:15:10 GMT

Allow user to 'watch' requests which they are interested in. Users watching a request will be notified of all changes to it. [Dimensions CM]

Social tagging game for AI model enrichment

skashbi — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 08:50:12 GMT

Currently we are doing internal "tagging" party for massive image tagging, in order to enrich our AI model:

The whole group meets and manually tag application images for correct label (validating that detected button is indeed a button, adding label for UI objects that were not detected,etc...)

We suggest creating a social mobile game, where users will get small data bites for validation, such as "button" that was tagged as label, you can easily give feedback using "Tinder" like widget; "Correct / Wrong"

So the flow would be:

1. Our model detect a button as a button

2. User A will get this tagged button, and he will swipe for 'right' / 'wrong' tagging.

3. Each swipe operation will reward the user in game point.

4. He can decides to validate another image or to quit.

Then we can display a dashboard in floor monitor with hall of fame of users with most tags, high quality tags,rewards, etc...

Making the tagging procedure less "robotic"/exhausting

Almog & Sami.

Re: UFT AI Based Scripting in offline mode

Jerry2 — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 08:33:37 GMT

Very good selling point to the customer.

Enhancing team member area

yomtovn — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 08:23:17 GMT

team member area can be enhance to help remote work/working from home

Team Member area enhancement:

Add availability support, location, working hour
Last worked item
Open zoom/teams
Can include feature expert information
Org chart view
Teams integration

Participants

, (Nir Yom Tov)

Orit Ifrach <**PERSONAL INFORMATION REMOVED**>

Elena Fradkin <**PERSONAL INFORMATION REMOVED**>

Daniel Shmaya <**PERSONAL INFORMATION REMOVED**>

Moshe Golan <**PERSONAL INFORMATION REMOVED**>

Zvi Fried <**PERSONAL INFORMATION REMOVED**>

Re: Customizable System Profiler Agent

janezhang — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 08:09:30 GMT

Good idea

Work from anywhere through a chat bot

Martin Zhai1 — Wed, 03 Jun 2020 09:32:57 GMT

Imagine you are a QA engineer. You are driving to the office. There is a traffic jam and you will be late.

But the automation testing is blocked. Your boss is shouting at you over the phone: "Why the automation is blocked?" "And why are you late??"

Your head is going to explode...

"Wait a minute." A thought jumps into your head, "I remember there is a chat bot. Let's see what it has got."

You take out your phone, open WeChat app, and search for "Micro Focus Bot".

Check out attached video for current abilities.

(More is coming soon...)

Self healing of application nodes/servers within AWS

Mehul_Shah — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 07:07:10 GMT

Most of today's applications are highly available, as they are part of cluster environment and deployed in multiple availability zone (for AWS). However there are scenarios where individual nodes/servers go off-line due to nodes crashing, high CPU or java process running the application has out of memory.

The idea here is to design a self/auto healing of application nodes/servers in the event of an failure.

Events for failures.

1. Nodes crashing.
2. High CPU
3. Out of memory etc.

Solution:
Design auto healing of application servers using AWS systems manager or AWS alarms.

application performance monitoring (APM

Ravi Srivastav — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 05:12:08 GMT

This is a kind of software analytics product which is used to analyze the performance of the application.this tools will delivers real-time and trending data about your web application's performance and the level of satisfaction that your end users experience.using this will get to know the E2E tracing of application.

Movement of on prem application to cloud

Shan_mf — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 04:17:06 GMT

Problem statement:
In On premises environment the company needs to maintain the infrastructure like storage, servers etc. Due to this the cost will be more and we will deviate from the innovations and fixing the infrastructure to make it work on our own and also it will be outdated with the latest technologies. The deployment also will be slow on some cases and to prevent the data loss we need to back up the data on regular basis which increases the cost and the maintenance as well.

Solution:
Stepping forward to cloud computing is one way to resolve maintenance of servers, storage and the infrastructures. There are many services are available in cloud computing and we can select whichever is suitable for the application. This will reduce the cost of our maintenance of our infrastructure. Utilizing this will improve the fast deployment, accessibility and data loss prevention and more in an efficient manner.

Re: Social network dashboard - Status changed to: New Idea

Adi Kimhi — Sun, 31 May 2020 17:33:53 GMT

open defect from logz.io in octane instance

oded salem — Sun, 31 May 2020 15:40:24 GMT

chrome extension that once installed the user in log.io will be able to automatically open a defect in octane instance.

Social network dashboard

Adi Kimhi — Sun, 31 May 2020 17:47:12 GMT

One place to see top posts from all social network channels, based on selected product, in order to enhance the collaboration between RnD & customers and to share our feedback more often.
We have a lot of groups in different platforms, where customers ask questions and share feedback. It’s hard to follow all these groups’ updates and answer customers posts.

The dashboard will include owner assignment based on keywords ,send auto-mail to relevant stakeholders and more options. We can add gaming options to encourage the team and see the top contributors.

Re: Integrate application with ER system

Preeti Kaushal — Sun, 31 May 2020 14:25:18 GMT

Hi Itay,

Yes I m.

As shared i my last paragraph of submission, as below

We already have this feature available in form of idea exchange but not all customers have visibility to this.

An integration of it with application will be of good help to all stakeholders.

I think that we should have a link directly from application redirecting to idea exchange so that customer do not need to look for means to raise ER. They should be able to do it from application itself.

Thanks,

BR,

Preeti Kaushal

"Similar Defects" - help users save time by indicating that duplicate entities may exist

yael — Sun, 31 May 2020 12:29:56 GMT

When creating a defect, indicate that similar defects exist, based on keywords

Layout Identification AI Model

Eyal L — Sun, 31 May 2020 11:44:49 GMT

The idea is to teach an AI model to identify and localize GUI elements that consists of multiple controls

for example:

a section in a shopping web site that includes an image, and a few buttons, and a title

Using trial/demo data to enrich our AI

skashbi — Sun, 31 May 2020 10:29:31 GMT

Currently we build the AI model internally, by doing 'tagging parties':

Taking bulks of applications screenshots, and massively manually tag them, in side our development team.

We can expose a demo site with our product along easy registration process.

We can limit the number of steps, screenshots, mobile devices,etc...

What we will get is:

1. Exposure to our product...

2. While users try our product, there maybe a case where some of their application objects are not being detected by our AI detection. In such a case the user will need to "add" these controls to a model.

We can take users "tagging" data (without any personal info) and use it to enlarge our AI model.

The same way Google use their captcha in order to accurate their OCR https://www.wired.com/2007/05/recaptcha-fight-spam-and-digitize-books/

Thanks,

Sami

Stepping from "AI based object detection" into "AI based screen detection."

skashbi — Sun, 31 May 2020 09:54:39 GMT

We use AI in order to drive easy automation, in terms of detecting an testable object from a given screen image:

1. Detect elements in a given visual snapshot of an application (regardless of application technology)

2. OCR text detection.

If can combine these 2 tools to smartly generate a complete testing scenario:

The flow would be:

User selects the screen to be tested and by using our smart Inspect (AI based) or Spy (Property based)

we can extract the UI elements (such as buttons, text fields,etc...) along with screen OCR [existing functionality in Codeless Product]

Now we can try and to evaluate the "screen" functionality, by analyzing the detected texts ("enter user name" / "enter password") and test objects ("username" text field, "password" text field, "submit" button)

And in case we identify such 'known' screen, such as "Login Page","Registration Page",etc...

we can generate a complete end 2 end testing scenario, including negative tests, regression tests,etc...

Stepping from "AI based object detection" into "AI based screen detection."

Thanks,

Sami.

Thanks,

Sami.

Re: 🌐Live Agile Board Experience

Sharon Vardi — Sun, 31 May 2020 09:50:03 GMT

Will be implemented by:

1. Yuval Koren

2. Udi Zeidman

3. Sharon Vardi

Codeless - Contextual NLP command suggestions for easy test generation

skashbi — Sun, 31 May 2020 09:42:38 GMT

Currently, in order to add a test step in Codeless editor, we have 2 approaches:

1. "Advanced user" - User can freely write "NLP" command (e.g click the 'login' button).

Unless user executes the script - we can not be sure that the script actually "works" (syntax might be correct but we can not be know in advanced that indeed the "test object" exists in UI.

2. User uses scans the application UI by "Spy" (Property based detection) or "Inspect" (AI based detection) in order to detect detect test objects.

In this point, user can visually click on the detected test object, and a valid NLP command will be added to the editor.

So it's either

1. A case where the text is "deattached" from any real concert UI, and user cant tell if the steps written are "valid" in term of execution.

2. The steps were created by a sequential generation procedure by clicking "Inspect"/"Spy" and adding a single step each time.

Suggested solution: Hybrid solution, where the engine, in background scans the UI (SPY/AI)

As user tries to write command we have a "contextual" domain with the detected test objects (that might was originated from AI/UFT, mentioned before) - thus the process of writing a valid steps would be much easier and straightforward.

That would make the product much easier to first time users, and the editor much more friendly.

Thanks,

Sami.

Re: UFTM Messaging

RanSidon — Sun, 31 May 2020 07:44:39 GMT

@Marlen Awad

Will participate

Re: Integrate application with ER system

laxer — Fri, 29 May 2020 20:45:19 GMT

Hi Preeti,

Are you familiar with idea exchange?

Does it supply the required functionalities?

Itay.

Build mechanism to Prevent Incidents

Preeti Kaushal — Fri, 29 May 2020 18:05:12 GMT

There are incidents when application is impacted. Either having performance impact or unavailability. Following are the reoccurring cause of incident.

Bad data
High memory utilization
High CPU Utilization
Application stuck/hung
One end user running a report causing application failure
Network failure
DB failure etc

When above re-stores, application do not self-recover and end up being re-started losing customer work in progress, resulting into customer annoyance and lack of trust in product.

We want to ensure that the product should be able to protect itself from above on application server when it crashes.
There should be either preventive mechanism or self-healing mechanism without the need of re-start.

There must be mechanism to define fault tolerance.

We can categorize it as :-

Soft faults that can be considered as application crashes that can be recovered.
Hard faults that would require a complete system restart

In any of the case, whenever any error is recorded in logs, the application should have capability to self-detach from cluster to avoid any impact on users or application availability.

In AWS, we have this partially set where when a node failure occurs then rather than fixing or troubleshooting, we can detach the problematic node and attach it to new ec2. This is exactly what we need but automated and for all architecture including traditional data center.

Build Quality Predictor

dmsh — Fri, 29 May 2020 16:55:44 GMT

Tired of waiting for a build of Dimensions CM to complete, and then if fails? We can find who has broken the build before it takes place 😀.
We will use machine learning to predict the likelihood of a broken build.
Just for fun (machine learning cannot guarantee a 100% accuracy).

Performance testing for the GitClient

Serhii Voichenko — Fri, 29 May 2020 15:43:34 GMT

Implement performance testing using LoadRunner

Migrate Test Management to Octane

iryna lutsiuk — Fri, 29 May 2020 15:27:22 GMT

Dimensions CM team has successfully moved Change Request management to Octane. It's time to move Test Management to have a tight relationship between defects, stories and tests cases.

Re: Deployment Automation Process step suggestion

idobrovolskyi — Fri, 29 May 2020 11:18:14 GMT

We are going to work on this idea:

Andrii Dzudzylo
Andrii Shepotin
Ihor Dobrovolskyi

Deployment Automation Process step suggestion

idobrovolskyi — Fri, 29 May 2020 11:14:40 GMT

Designing processes is a usual routine in Deployment Automation. User searches for the process step he needs, adds it to the main area, connects it with other steps and fills the required properties. Since many processes consist of the same steps and have similar structure, creating a process from scratch needs repetitive actions and becomes annoying a bit.

One of the things which could be done in order to speed up the creation of new processes is to add suggestion of most probable steps. It could be done in a very simple way, say by suggesting 3 most frequently used steps. However, it would be much more convenient if these suggested steps depend on the context (steps which are already added to the process). For example, if the user has added "Acquire lock" step, "Release lock" is likely to be added later. What is more, because the suggestion is made for a specific step, the next chosen step may be automatically connected with the previous one.

Native dump to Java dump converter

AlexanderF — Fri, 29 May 2020 08:57:10 GMT

Many of our support cases involve creating a memory dump of our product for in-house debugging.

The easiest way for our customers is to simply use Task Manager to create a native memory dump of our application.

On our development machines we can then analyze this dump using the matching JDK to extract the Java stack dump and heap dump. Currently, this is a manual process and this idea proposes to create a tool for automating these steps:

Open the native dump and find the version of the JVM that was used
fetch the appropriate JDK for that version
use the JDK tools or VisualVM to extract the stack- and heap-dump

Re: BestMsg: very easy to add social feature to legacy application

Song Zipeng — Fri, 29 May 2020 08:10:16 GMT

to David Landsberg: yes, the end users of product can chat each other.

Team/Product Management Tool

PuttarajuKS — Fri, 29 May 2020 07:15:41 GMT

Problem Statement:
1. To manage product or the team currently we are using many UIs, excel sheets, engwiki etc. We have to juggle around many places to get info. In here after some time data would end up not getting added/updated and that particular sheet/page become kind of outdated.
2. Information is spread across many places which would make things complex to manage either a team or product , releases, any relevant info related to team/product for that matter.
Solution:
1. This idea would address the above problems to maximum extent by having all the info in one place. It’s a kind of one-stop solution to many things.
2. To manage a team or a product details(releases, road map, team size, SDLC processes, tools, dev/test protocols and any relevant data) in one place would be always easier and also whoever manage the product or the team for them it would be convenient to keep the data always live & updated. It can also have product user guides and other details also.
3. Having this tool also helps the new member who joins the team & can go through this web app and could get the gist of what’s happening in the product & the team.
4. It can be projected as a separate tool/application for managing team/products just like we have tools exclusively for managing scrum(Octane, Rhythm etc)

Git server log analysis tool

Abhijit_SCCM — Fri, 29 May 2020 05:57:23 GMT

The log statements would be extracted from applicatoinlog file and grouped into info, debug and error messages to give a visual representation of as to what are different types of error, debug and info messages to identify suspicious error messages which can be the cause of potential issues in application, and also, it will help identifying whether logs are mature enough to expose application current state, and reducing issue debugging turn around time.

Text recommendations using ML in text inputs

akumarm — Fri, 29 May 2020 05:25:58 GMT

Comments/description/git commit message/any text input field has to be manually filled by the user. Also the way a user types in the text is very similar to the text which he/she typed in previous time. There is a high change that a user uses a particular type of words or sentences every time. This user behavior can be captured and some text/sentence recommendation can be made to the user.

Solution: Using supervised learning and with the set of training data of the user, we can predict the text, when the user enters text in any of the input. This solution can adapted in any textbox. Some of the examples are:
1. AccuRev’s comment box while keep/promote.
2. Git commit message.
3. Rhythm’s or Octane’s story description.
4. Pulse’s code review description.

Move the build of test automation framework from Jenkins to Micro Focus Pulse.

DK_orbiter — Wed, 03 Jun 2020 07:54:33 GMT

Demo: is here

Description: For internal QA test automation in Dimensions CM we build Visual Studio project of the testing framework using Jenkins job.

This idea is to prepare environment and create a chain in Micro Focus Pulse and use it instead.

Tasks:

- understand current Jenkins build job which invokes build through AutoIt

- install Pulse Agent on the dedicated image and configure it

- in master Pulse, create a chain which is alternative to Jenkins build job and make it working

Data Sonification: present CI builds as a melody

AlexanderZiubin — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 09:17:33 GMT

Data Sonification: present the status of Continuous Integration builds as polyphonic melody

Problem. There are already solutions for Continuous Integration (CI) tools, which play certain sound when a build succeeded or failed. However they do not allow to have up-to-date acoustic representation of the builds statuses. The problem is that to hear the sound it is necessary to be nearby when the build has finished (which means to be nearby all the time) otherwise one will not be notified.

Scenario: Software engineer worked from home and did not have physical access to CI server or agent, but wanted to monitor builds in the background not requiring his visual attention. When it was suitable for him, he kept CI tool web page opened, which played polyphonic melody in his room. It was OK to mute the sound temporary because once unmuted, the melody gave him up-to-date representation of builds statuses.

Solution. Implement server side tool, which processes several recent results of each build, generates melodies, combine them to polyphonic soundtrack and makes it available for remote users.

Examples.

Adding sound to continous integration process:

Fun with CI pipelines
Make your workplace more fun with a Jenkins alarm system

Demo of data sonification:

https://youtu.be/FaJo5J6zWPM
https://youtu.be/nKrEnzibu7w
https://youtu.be/ONuA9HmkF3M

Dimensions CM Automated testing infrastructure integration with MS Teams Bot

BogdanSak — Thu, 28 May 2020 15:15:41 GMT

As we use MS Teams on daily bases it would be nice to get different kinds of reporting information using Bots

This will be first step - setting Bot work with Dimension CM Automated Testing Infrastructure.

Re: Secure developers work areas using Micro Focus SmartCipher and Dimensions CM - Status changed to: Accepted

Peter Raymond — Thu, 28 May 2020 13:35:03 GMT

I plan to work on this idea for the Hackathon

Show security vulnerability information for 3rd party packages stored in our artifact repository

Peter Raymond — Thu, 28 May 2020 13:30:51 GMT

Micro Focus Pulse is able to detect 3rd party components used in a build and identify the security vulnerabilities associated with those 3rd party components.

Dimensions CM has an artifact repository which can store, manage and review/approve components.

This idea is to bring these two worlds together so that when a developer or team lead or compliance manager is looking at a package version stored in our artifact repository that they can see the vulnerabilities that Pulse discovered with those packages. This will help the user decide if the package meets their security standards and can be used or should be avoided.

This helps improve the security of the software our customers are building, it certainly adds value to our artifact repository manager and is well aligned with our roadmap for these product features.

Secure developers work areas using Micro Focus SmartCipher and Dimensions CM

Peter Raymond — Thu, 28 May 2020 13:20:56 GMT

Voltage SmartCipher is a cool Micro Focus product that provides encryption and control of file access and usage with policies that can control who can do what to which files.

https://www.microfocus.com/en-us/products/voltage-smartcipher/overview

This Hackathon idea is to integrate SmartCipher with our enterprise SCCM system Dimensions CM.

We can use SmartCipher to ensure the version controlled files are stored encrypted when they are committed.

We can use SmartCipher to only allow the Dimensions CM application to access those files.

We can use SmartCipher to lock down the files in the developers work areas, for example limiting it so when files are cloned/pulled from Dimensions CM that they can only be opened by the devlopers IDE process and cannot be emailed/screenshotted exfiltrated off the developers laptop.

This idea is very relevant to our current situation where many developers are working from home, increasing the risk of security and data breaches. It also brings together Micro Focus products built by different teams in different portfolios and stacks to make a 1+1 greater than 2 🙂

Integrate application with ER system

Preeti Kaushal — Thu, 28 May 2020 12:06:22 GMT

PPM application should have menu containing all the recorded enhancement requests and defects submitted for particular PPM version. It should contain particulars like description of ER, date submitted and status. This can be kept updated along with each service pack released. This way customer will have visibility to the road-map of product development. Along with this, a link to Idea exchange redirecting to idea exchange page inorder to log the ideas and ER's would be a good to have thing.

They can see if their ER is logged and is prioritized, or if the ER which they intend to record is already submitted or not. They would know what they would be expecting in upcoming service packs and releases.

This way they can contribute to our product development.

This will not only help gain confidence with product but will build trust on product showcasing transparency of enactment.

Eventually they are the users and with above they can share what they want in upcoming future versions.

We already have this feature available in form of idea exchange but not all customers have visibility to this.

An integration of it with application will be of good help to all stakeholders.

Logs grabber for ALM Octane

felixturle — Thu, 28 May 2020 10:22:58 GMT

Logs grabber for ALM Octane

Working with the customers confirmed for me the necessity of this utility.

As a first step, my idea consists of creating a script that would grab all the Octane logs and archive them on the filesystem on the Octane server.

The script should be executed with a date parameter, archiving all the logs from the specified date to the present date.

Furthermore, we can add this functionality in the UI, maybe in the "Help" area. By clicking on a newly added option in the Help, a pop-up window will be opened with a date picker element and "Collect logs" button. In the UI this option should only be available to the users with the Site Admin role.

UFT AI Based Scripting before Application is ready

Easton Liu — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 09:59:36 GMT

With AI ability in UFT, there is a good chance we can tell the following story (or more):

For a new App or Feature:

UX will design the flow for the application, provide a series of mock images
R&D will develop and deliver
QA will wait for R&D's delivery and then create test scripts

For UFT AI, it only needs the images to identify objects and so to generate steps.

So the flow will be re-designed as following:

QA will step in and create test scripts right after mock images will be ready.
Once R&D will deliver it, QA can seamlessly run the test scripts generated above on top of the real application.

This idea comes from our great FA - Gil Nakache 😉

Given the ability that AI works directly with images, and UFT AI can work directly with local images, there will be more scenarios to be discovered.

Octane - Dynamic mention of entities

oded salem — Wed, 27 May 2020 16:13:34 GMT

add the ability to mention an entity in octane comments/memo fields.

the mention will always retrieve the updated title of the entity you are mentioning.

the mention will have a tooltip presenting live information of the entity.

Encrypt item library files which transfers with offline replication.

Oleksiy Kuzmik — Wed, 27 May 2020 15:54:55 GMT

A particular military organization, for security reasons, use offline replication. At regular intervals, they use Air-Gap replication to generate a large compressed file hierarchy that they put on disk and securely physically deliver to remote sites.

The problem can happen in case of losing disk as item library files are not encrypted. In order to prevent such kind of troubles all item library files should be encrypted with security key and AES algorithm similarly to DFS/registry.dat.

Re: Octane MSTeams Integration

oded salem — Wed, 27 May 2020 14:51:11 GMT

my team will not work on this.

Feature Marketplace

oded salem — Wed, 27 May 2020 14:49:34 GMT

Treat story points as currency, distribute them to internal/external stakeholders, and let them "buy" features that will be developed in the next release of your AUT.

Re: Automate ADM help "go live" process

ZekeH — Wed, 27 May 2020 10:38:15 GMT

Really nice innovative idea. Will definitely reduce some of the stress associated with the “go live” process.

Re: (AutoAUT)Automating deployment, scaling, and management system for application under testing

kadaristi — Wed, 27 May 2020 09:48:48 GMT

It sounds great as idea. I would be interested in a design suggestion.

Support Tool to improve and speed up user cases

Mihai Podina — Wed, 27 May 2020 08:59:43 GMT

Hi,

After I watched a few meetings with clients I noticed there is a lot of time wasted to enable/disable different debugs or system variables checks that could be automated using a powershell script.

The main idea would be to have a simple but powerful windows form with different features(review Java version, check system variables, review Micro Focus registers, list the installation path of UFTone, review other possible paths that could cause issues with new UFT versions) and so on.

This way we can have be sure the data supplied by the support team to the R&D is legit, the support team would be able to accurate data and also learn certain flows that R&D team have.

Tool for Facilitating a Safe Return to the Office

LucianZ — Wed, 27 May 2020 08:50:39 GMT

Have a tool with all the employees and desks in a office which can be configured to keep a distance between employees. Employees can add or check the dates they want to work from the office so that the distance is kept.

The tool will tell you if your desk is available or not depending on who else is in the office. If your colleague from your left, right or in front of you is in the office then the desk will not be available because you will be too close to your colleagues.

In the attached image you can see with green the people that are in the office, with red the unavailable spaces due to the distance and without a color the available desks.

Containerization & Docker deployment AccuRev

nilkamaldey — Wed, 27 May 2020 06:47:20 GMT

AccuRev Docker Deployment

Enhanced Dev-Access tool

mingxiangzhao — Wed, 27 May 2020 06:01:36 GMT

1) monitoring the real status of each devices, not only "Available" or "Unavailable". but "Connected", "In use", "Reserved" and etc. (Retrieving data from UFTM APIs on the target machine)
2) from the GUI, user can easily know which device is connected to the specific UFTM machines (Tree view)
3) User can easily connect or reconnect a device to the specific UFTM machine by using Drag & Drop.

A TruClient based plugin-like macro script record and replay for universal webapp or SaaS

Allen Kunlun Mao — Wed, 27 May 2020 03:14:36 GMT

Inspired by success of WalkMe and CodePen, I propose a plugin-like app which enables almost every Webapp/SaaS product to have macro script recording and replaying function within seconds effortlessly.

In the meantime, logo of Microfocus will appear in these webapp/SaaS (i.e. branding everywhere) to help TruClient and whole Microfocus ecommerce to achieve virus speed marketing and reputation building, boost Internet traffic to retailing site, Search Engine ranking (SEO) advantages, And new potential income source.

Re: Mobile Testing as a Service

Eric Peng — Wed, 27 May 2020 03:11:25 GMT

It sounds like UFTM Dev page which is still existing from what I know.

The only difference is that you may use UFT Script and Engine instead? Am I right?

ALM cloud global search in aws

Cunyang — Wed, 27 May 2020 02:49:37 GMT

Use aws and the serverless conception to create the next generation global search.

Re: Develop an IDE extension plugin which can interact with ALM Server

Eric Peng — Wed, 27 May 2020 02:31:42 GMT

There is one plugin named 'ALM Octane' which is in the marketing for long term. And not updated since two years. Is there any new features applied?

Maybe you can use it and enhance it to align the new Octane version.

Not sure, just suggestion.

Re: Setting up PPM with auto-scaling in AWS

marina_moshinsky — Tue, 26 May 2020 18:20:54 GMT

Hi Ajay,
this is a great initiative, i can imagine it can be adopted for QC/LRE, too.
Got some drafts that may be relevant here, will ping you directly.
Thanks,
Marina

Re: Automating set up of injection environment

Channa Even-Chen — Tue, 26 May 2020 14:16:21 GMT

setting up an environment to be able to inject test to Octane can be tedious and is time consuming. I would like us to automate this process with parameters like:
jenkins url
octane url
git repository (optional)
xml config file of a job to add to jenkins

etc.

Automating set up of injection environment

Channa Even-Chen — Tue, 26 May 2020 14:12:29 GMT

Re: Setting up PPM with auto-scaling in AWS

laxer — Tue, 26 May 2020 13:42:30 GMT

Hi Ajay,

Firstly, thanks for your contribution to the Hackathon.

Secondly, I would try to join effort with PPM R&D to build the optimal solution. I assume it will be relevant to on prem PPM customers as well.

Itay.

Silk Test Workbench Visual Test to .NET script converter

tibi — Tue, 26 May 2020 13:34:11 GMT

Visual Tests in Workbench are a great way of writing tests without touching a programming language, especially for people who are unfamiliar with our product, but sooner or later many of our customers have realized their limitations. The problem is that moving away from visual tests is quite difficult, as they need to rebuild their entire testing suite from scratch in a different programming language.

What we want to do with this tool is make the transition easier, by generating code automatically from those visual tests.

Re: FindYourGuru - Helps you find the best contact person for a specifc part of your project.

Abusmachiu — Tue, 26 May 2020 13:33:19 GMT

Interesting idea, but I think making this be part of some sonar analysis or jenkins or some other tool might be better, so that CI will run the analysis and display statistics for everyone, and not everyone having to run this on their local.

Daily focus list in Octane

Eli Emanuel — Tue, 26 May 2020 11:45:00 GMT

Adding the possibility to registrar to a daily email service in Octane . In the email we will send a smart focus list, personalized to the user based on smart analysis, of major current focus areas relevant to this user. (backlog items, etc.). the email content could be configured by the user, using several templates.

For example, team leader will be able to configure the service to get focus list based on his team members.

Silk Central execution pods using shared kubernetes persistent volume for CI or source control files

christian_boeck — Tue, 26 May 2020 10:28:50 GMT

The Kubernetes plugin for Silk Central already offers great potential to distribute automated tests across a larger number of auto-deployed Kubernetes pods in public or private Cloud infrastructure.
However, in many cases automated tests require file resources from CI - or source management systems and utilize the power of Silk Central source control integration plugins.

However, especially in public cloud systems it won’t be possible to access these systems from within containers hosted in the cloud. Furthermore, many tests require the same file resources and it is inefficient to fetch these files redundantly into single containers.

Idea:
Implement automatic lifecycle management of configurable persistent volumes in kubernetes (https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/persistent-volumes/)
• Store files originating from Silk Central source control integrations in a persistent volume.
• Access the persistent volume from multiple pods, thus reuse files for multiple test executions in multiple pods.
• Add support to store source control files on the local Silk Central server and efficiently sync changes between the local storage and the kubernetes persistent volume via rsync. This is accomplished by establishing a tunnel with the same proxy based secure communication model used for the Silk Central Execution Server communication, so there is no public accessible SSH or rsync port opened on the Cloud side.

Protecting our product's availability & performance via machine learning

shpirer — Tue, 26 May 2020 09:50:59 GMT

One of our biggest challenges in SaaS PPM delivery is the incidents caused by customers running “bad” reports/customization which impact the availability and performance of the PPM applications

While working with these top accounts on awareness and using SaaS best practice, we always use the reactive mode.

My idea is to leverage machine learning capabilities to “learn” customer daily/weekly tasks done by these accounts and whenever we observe behavioral change that might impact either the availability or performance of the application, alert the user via email and put it in a queue for further analysis.

This method will allow the end user/admin to review the latest changes on the test environment and fix them before applying them in the production

Voice Filter on Teams

janezhang — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 09:51:34 GMT

The audio quality of a call can be unsatisfactory due to a variety of reasons. Such reasons include noisy surroundings at the location from. This techniques that use a user-specific voiceprint to home into the user’s speech and cut out surrounding disturbances from a voice message.

ChatOps - Teams chatbot integration

marina_moshinsky — Tue, 26 May 2020 09:27:08 GMT

In SaaS Delivery, we have a lot of systems and automation flows to handle. But in all collaboration scenarios, working inside the groups or with the different internal interfaces - we always use the MS Teams.

Integration of chatbot into the Teams, and setting it up to work with the different platforms' APIs, would reduce the needless context-switching between tools, with easier and closer collaboration between the stakeholders. Also, there would be no copy-paste between tools, thus faster access to information and less room for mistake. Tasks would be more transparent and dependencies reduced.

Overall, this idea may improve the day2day performance of Delivery teams and their interfaces.