OpenText® ALM / Quality Center empowers organizations to manage the core application lifecycle, from requirements through deployment, granting application teams the crucial visibility and collaboration needed for predictable, repeatable, and adaptable delivery of modern applications.
This plugin for Jira allows Jira users to continue planning and delivering their work items in Jira, with immediate visibility the larger quality process being managed in ALM / Quality Center. Jira users can easily understand if test cases have been linked and executed, and what the run statuses are: Passed, Failed, Blocked, No run, N/A, or user defined status shown as Others. When deeper quality insight is needed, users can simply click a provided link to open the rich ALM views to more fully understand requirement info, test details, runs, linked defects and other associated information. Jira users can also view the information of all linked test cases and test cases of each status including Test ID, Test Name, Type, Execution Status, Designer information, without opening ALM / Quality Center.
To get details help for this plugin, visit ALM - Test Management for Jira Plugin Online Help .
NOTE: This plugin supports Jira Server and Data Center. For the Jira Cloud plugin, go to Atlassian marketplace.
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This release improves Data Center scalability, resilience, and security, and upgrades Java support from 17 to 21.
What’s new:
- Added support for Jira software to 11.x.x
- Bounded ALM coverage loading to prevent unbounded memory usage.
- Added paged retrieval, hard row limits, payload-size guardrails, and truncation indicators.
- Connector cache hardening with max size, eviction, and TTL expiration.
- Scheduled keepalive hardening with explicit connect/read timeouts and safer handling for slow or unresponsive ALM endpoints.
- Security enhancement: ALM API secrets and proxy passwords are now encrypted at rest.
- Added migration support for previously stored plaintext secrets.
- Added Active Objects upgrade task for model version 3.
Action required before upgrade:
Configure an encryption key before running 3.0.0:
- Env var: ALM_PLUGIN_ENCRYPTION_KEY
- JVM property: alm.plugin.encryption.key
Use the same key on all DC nodes, ensure Base64 key length is 16/24/32 bytes decoded, and restart Jira nodes.
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