Hi all 
As 2025 comes to an end, we wanted to share a short recap of the key product capabilities introduced throughout the year, focusing on how they help teams improve clarity, control, and visibility across their testing process.
2025 Product Highlights
- SmartFox AI for Faster, Higher-Quality Test Creation: Use SmartFox AI to generate and refine test steps, enhance text for clarity, and avoid duplicate tests with Similar Tests detection, helping teams write better tests in less time.
- More Powerful Dashboards and Drill-Down Insights: Slice data with multilevel filters, drill from dashboards into instance-level details, and allow stakeholders to apply tab-level filters to external dashboards.
- Smarter Traceability Across Requirements and Test Sets: Link complete test sets to a requirement and keep its status aligned with real execution progress, including newly added instances.
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Generate Tests with Steps from Jira and Azure DevOps User Stories: Automatically create tests with structured steps directly from linked user stories in Jira or Azure DevOps, keeping requirements and tests fully aligned.
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Custom Test Workflows with Built-In Approval Control: Customize your test workflow to define project-specific test statuses, control transitions, and enforce edit or execution locks to support structured review and approval processes. This feature is available only for Corporate accounts.
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Collaborative Editing for Safer Teamwork at Scale: Work simultaneously on requirements, tests, issues, and test sets while avoiding overwrites and conflicts, ensuring teams always work on the latest data.
For the full list of updates released throughout 2025, you can always check the complete release notes on our website: https://www.practitest.com/updates/