Quality Clouds 18.2.5 Release Notes

Release date: June 14th, 2018

Highlights #

New bests practice implemented  #

ServiceNow #

The following new ServiceNow best practice are included in this release:

ID	Description	Severity	Area of impact	Affected element	Covered by Quality Clouds	Covered by Update Set scan utility
76	UI Actions with debugging statements.	Low	Scalability	UI Action
106	Synchronous AJAX call (getReference, getXMLWait) in UI Scripts.	High	Performance	UI Script
107	GlideRecord usage on UI Scripts.	High	Performance	UI Script
117	UI Scripts with the console.log debugging method.	Medium	Performance	UI Script
118	UI Scripts without function.	Medium	Scalability	UI Script
119	Document Object Model (DOM) manipulation in UI Scripts.	High	Manageability	UI Script
140	UI Scripts with empty script field.	Low	Performance	UI Script

Javascript #

There are no new Javascript best practice  included in this release.

New configuration item types included in analysis  #

This release does not contain any additional Configuration Element Types

New Update Set  #

This release does not require any incremental Update Set.

The full UpdateSet to configure a brand-new instance for Quality Clouds version 18.2.5.0 is available on Set up your ServiceNow instance.

Scan Website new features  #

Scan notification mail enriched with dynamic info

API REST new endpoints

Restyled Maintenance Mode landing page

Several Bugs & Fixes

Changes in views #

New information added to the multiple instances comparison view for ServiceNow: This view is the perfect command and control view to ensure that your instances are aligned. It is the perfect tool for a release manager who manages multiple instances. It contains also information about the configuration elements added into each instance and as of this new release, we haveadded the number of integrations for each of them. Available in the Enterprise edition only.

New Application Governance View for ServiceNow: The application governance view provides you with information about the number of configuration elements for each ServiceNow application together with the lines of code (LoC). It contains also the comparison from the last time the instance was scanned, so it is ideal to understand the development activity in your instance broken down by application. Available in the Enterprise edition only.