Your Journey to Atlassian Jira Cloud with Zephyr Squad
Greetings community, Surely by now, most of you are aware of Atlassian’s shift in strategy to become a cloud-first company. This has some important implications to anyone who uses their Server based products, including apps. TL;DR: Follow these steps to migrate your Zephyr Squad app data using JCMA: Follow Atlassian's guide to setup theJCMA Followour Cloud migration guide to complete the migration Key dates per Atlassian’s FAQ page: February 2, 2021 – Atlassian customers can no longer purchase or request a quote for new Server licenses. February 2, 2022 – you will no longer be able to upgrade or downgrade user tiers for your Server products or apps (with some exceptions) February 2, 2023 – Existing customers can no longer purchase Server apps on the Marketplace February 2, 2024 – Atlassian stops support for Server products and apps What does this mean for Zephyr Squad customers? From my calls with some of you, and what I keep hearing from our support team, is that many of you are already actively exploring your options. While some are choosing to stick with on-prem by moving to Data Center, many of you are making plans to migrate everything to Cloud, including apps. Here at SmartBear, we are committed to facilitating a smooth transition to Cloud for all our customers. This includes brining feature parity between Server and Cloud products, supporting automated migration tools like JCMA, and be compliant with a number of Atlassian Cloud security and reliability programs on the Marketplace. What is the recommended migration path to Cloud? Atlassian’s Jira Cloud Migration Assistant (JCMA) is your primary path to Cloud. It is an application that helps you move projects, users, and groups from Jira Core or Jira Software on Server to Cloud.The automated app migration functionality in JCMA is now in an open beta, which means that all users can migrate their app data over to Cloud. Are there any feature differences between Jira Server and Cloud versions of Zephyr Squad? If you want to move to the Cloud version of Zephyr Squad, it’s worth considering feature differences from Server. We’ve created a handy Server/DC vs Cloud comparison matrix where you can review these differences in detail. Are there any limitations regarding what data I can migrate using JCMA tool? Yes. Because of feature differences between the Server and Cloud versions of the Zephyr Squad, some data will not be migrated. Please refer to the ‘Known issues and limitations’ section of the Cloud Migration Guide. Are there any alternatives to using JCMA? Yes.Zephyr Migration Tool by SmartBear is another solution for migrating Zephyr Squad data from Jira Server to Jira Cloud. This approach is recommended if JCMA isn't working for you, and your Jira instance is middle-sized with a few projects, as this migration utility can migrate Zephyr Squad data only for one project at a time. What if I need any help with the migration? If you require technical assistance, please check out the Cloud Migration FAQ or raise a ticket with our support team. Tell us a bit about your Cloud migration journey I’ll conclude this post with a question to you, our awesome community. What is your plan of action around migrations? Please spend a moment to fill our this short survey to let us know!February 2022 | Zephyr Squad Community News
Greetings Zephyr Squad Community, We are launching a series of monthly community news from which you can recap the most interesting conversations of the month, congratulate the top community members or even find your name on the list of top community members (!), get the product news and much more. Feel free to leave your comments under this post to let us know what you’d like to see in this article next time. TOP Community CONTRIBUTORS Each activity you do in the community is extremely important! Asking questions, posting answers, sharing your use cases, suggesting feature requests – all of this helps the community grow and become stronger and stronger. And this is our goal for the Zephyr Squad Community – we can build the best community together Right now, let’s celebrate the members who contributed the most to the community in January: ShubhamB,HarunaHana,Kumaragurubaran Folks, great activity! Keep it up! You have great chances to earn the Q1 2022 Community Leaders status. Read the 3 Simple Steps to Become a ReadyAPI Community Leaderarticle to learn more. Community members, if you find answers to your questions helpful, don’t hesitate to give Kudos to the post. This is a great way to thank the author of the answer! Zephyr Squad academy We offer great online training to help you get started with Zephyr Squad. You can attend our bi-weekly live classes to learn the product and get answers to your questions live. The next class will be today – February 2. You still have the time to register – reserve your seat. Also, you can watch on-demand classes to watch video lessons, pass course exams and earn a certificate! Enroll in the courses on the Academy page. PRODUCT UPDATES In January, the product team released several Zephyr Squad versions which have many improvements including: The new Test Cases page The Test Automation page got the new options – Reset Columns Changes in BDD Content API operations And much more. Read the Zephyr Squad Cloud Release Notes and Zephyr Squad Server Release Notes article to learn about these and other upgrades. If you’re interested in Zephyr Squad, start a free trial. MOST DISCUSSED TOPICS We had so many great conversations this January. Feel free to post the topics you found interesting. This is our list: Error when starting Test Executions after JIRA 8.20.4 LTS Update Getting error message 'not implemented yet' when uploading test cases Trying to find and download Zbot for Zephyr Squad - Server version Generating a JWT Token for Zephyr Squad Cloud API - jar file NOT ANSWERED TOPICS You can find some questions you know answers to. Please check out this list of topics. Is there anything you can suggest? Access Denied while importing Test case using Internal Importer No way to import test cases by label to test cycle? REST API: update field Created By On importing defect sheet with test case ID, in traceability the defect shown under requirement How do I make it so the zephyr actions are available under the issue types Story and Task? That’s all for now. Have a question or comment? Please feel free to let us know. /SmartBear Community Team
