Date:    October 06, 2017
To:      CA Agile Requirements Designer Customers
From:   The CA Technologies Agile Requirements Designer Product Team
Subject: General Availability Announcement for CA Agile Requirements Designer 2.6

On behalf of CA Technologies, we appreciate your business and the opportunity to provide you with high-quality, innovative software and services.  As part of our ongoing commitment to customer success, we regularly release updated versions of our products. Today, we are pleased to announce that Agile Requirements Designer v2.6 is now available.

Features for Agile Requirements Designer v2.6 include:

Automation Enhancements

• Several options have been enhanced to help create automation configurations to construct and export scripts.

Find Out More: Define your Automation Configuration and Construct Scripts From a Model

CA Test Data Manager (CA TDM) Integration

• When using the function Edit Data on a data pool, you now can specify if the data is a Stored Column.

Find Out More: Use CA TDM Actions in CA ARD
Find Out More: Automating Testing Activities

Turnkey Integration

• The TurnKey DataDriver now benefits from the data generation capabilities of CA TDM.

Find Out More: Integrate with TurnKey

Team Foundation Server (TFS) Integration

• Update existing TFS Test Cases when exporting.
• Export Test Cases to Test Suites.

Find Out More: Integrate with Microsoft Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio Online

CA Agile Central Integration

• Update existing CA Agile Central Test Cases when exporting.

Find Out More: Integrate with CA Agile Central

HPE ALM Integration

• Update existing HPE ALM Test Cases when exporting.

Find Out More: Integrate with HPE ALM and Integrate with HPE ALM (GT HP ALM Service)

File Export

• New Excel spreadsheet export options to reference custom fields.

Find Out More: Export to Excel Spreadsheets Using Templates

Flow Editor Canvas

• Several usability enhancements to help with finding, creating, and editing blocks on the canvas.

Find Out More: Create Visual Flows

You can download your copy of Agile Requirements Designer v2.6 from CA Support Online https://support.ca.com/.

We have included a Product Brief here that details the features and highlights of this release. 

We also encourage you to visit the CA Agile Requirements Designer product information page on the CA Support Online website at https://support.ca.com/ for more information.

To connect, learn and share with other customers, join and participate in our Agile Requirements Designer CA Community at https://communities.ca.com/.

If you have any questions or require assistance contact CA Customer Care online at http://www.ca.com/us/customer-care.aspx where you can submit an online request using the Customer Care web form: https://comm.support.ca.com/csupport/CustomerCareForm.  You can also call CA Customer Care at +1-800-225-5224 in North America or see http://www.ca.com/phone for the local number in your country.

Should you need any assistance in understanding these new features, or implementing this latest release, our CA Services experts can help.  For more information on CA Services and how you can leverage our expertise, please visit www.ca.com/services.  

To review CA Support lifecycle policies, please review the CA Support Policy and Terms located at: https://support.ca.com/.

Thank you again for your business.