Q.wiki is developed in 8-week cycles. The version number indicates the start of a new cycle – not the release of new features. That's why the old practice of validating with every version update is no longer necessary.
Continuous Validation Through Automation
Q.wiki Now! is updated multiple times daily through a CI/CD pipeline. Every code change goes through automatic test stages:
- Each change is approved internally by a second person
- A Q.wiki build is automatically created and all functions are tested
- These tests run multiple times daily through continuous releases
- Changes that pass all tests are implemented in Q.wiki Now!
- This means we validate all standard Q.wiki functions multiple times a day
Manual Validation: When Do You Need It?
After the initial setup and configuration of your system, an initial validation against your customer-specific requirements is necessary.
Further validation by users is only needed if we make major changes to a component in Q.wiki – through bug fixes, enhancements, or new development. We actively inform you about such changes via Q.wikinger announcements and the Release Notes (external).
What Is System Validation?
System validation ensures that your system executes its main processes as required. The typical main processes of a management system based on Q.wiki are:
- User login and logout
- Creating and deleting a Q.wiki page
- Using the search function
- Email notification on read confirmation
- Approval workflow functionality including email sending
- Updating attachments
- Comment function on a page
- Creating a change proposal and editing a page
- Assigning standards to a page
Automatically Validated Functions (as of 06/2025)
These functions are automatically validated through our End-To-End tests (list not exhaustive):
| Area | Test |
|---|---|
| General | Customer-specific translations |
| General | Login/access only after authentication |
| Audits | Create, edit, and more |
| Tasks | Edit |
| Tasks | Create |
| Tasks | Comments |
| Tasks | Attachments |
| WebDAV | Open, edit, and save attachments |
| Glossary | Create entries |
| Glossary | Word recognition in processes |
| Group Management | Create, edit groups |
| Internal Projects | Create, edit, and more |
| Protocols | Create, edit, and more |
| Notifications | Direct notifications |
| Notifications | Email notifications |
| Personal Page | Favorites |
| Portal | Display of new units |
| Processes | Create page/data page |
| Processes | Metadata in page header |
| Processes | Extra fields in approval workflow |
| Processes | Create and edit flowcharts |
| Processes | Timeliness check calculation |
| Processes | Revision comparison/history |
| Processes | Document number |
| Processes | Attachments and links |
| Processes | Create and provide read confirmation |
| Processes | Comments |
| Processes | Create and use templates |
| Processes | Workflow runs completely through |
| Attachments | PDF viewer |
| Login | Login works as expected |
| User Profiles | Personal user profile and settings |
| User Profiles | User profiles overview |
| Password Reset | Password policy compliance, function |
| Risks | Create, edit, and more |
| Roles | Role dashboard |
| Roles | Role widget and linking to processes |
| Search | Indexing/search result control |
| Standards | Edit/add standards |
| Standards | Link standards to processes |
| Units | Create, rename |
| User Management | Create, edit users |
| Registration | Register users |
| SCIM | Azure integration |
| Module Generator | All basic functions of the Module Generator |
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