Tachyon GPT Work Item Assistant

TACHYON GPT - NEUDESIC’S ADO WORK ITEM ASSISTANT

Brought to you by Neudesic, an IBM Company, Tachyon GPT leverages the power of OpenAI to accelerate the project planning process, potentially saving weeks of effort. This powerful AI assistant allows you to create a complex backlog structure for your project in very little time. Tachyon GPT gives you the power to improve existing work items or generate new work items based on brief titles or descriptions.

Starting from the 5.0.0.8 release, the tags CreatedByTachyon and ImprovedByTachyon will be added to the work items that are created or modified by Tachyon. This enables you to create queries in Azure DevOps as needed.

What is a Tachyon? – Tachyon is the fastest hypothetical subatomic particle that gains speed as it loses energy. Tachyon GPT speeds up your project by reducing effort.

Tachyon GPT has been fully tested and offers support for work items across all 4 project types: Basic, Agile, Scrum, CMMI. The projects use default templates or the templates inherited from the default templates. In the case of customized work items, we offer support to the 'Description' field only.

Currently, our support is tailored specifically for Azure DevOps Services. Beginning with R5, we've introduced multi-language support. Please don't hesitate to contact us at TachyonGPTSupport@neudesic.com for any inquires or if you believe certain translations can be improved to better suit your language.

Click on this short video with a demo on how to use Tachyon GPT:

PREPARE FOR AWESOMENESS – CONFIGURING TACHYON GPT

After installing the Tachyon GPT extension in your ADO organization, you need to configure the extension using your own OpenAI or Azure OpenAI API keys. Additionally, you can select what types of work items you want Tachyon GPT to support within the ADO project. To leverage OpenAI, enter your API token and choose the model from the drop-down menu. Once that is completed, you are good to go.

Note: If the latest OpenAI models are not displayed, you need to enter the token, click the "Save" button, and once the information is saved, two icons will appear next to the model dropdown. These icons allow you to refresh or update the list, as shown in the following images:

- Add OpenAI Token

- Refresh OpenAI Models

For Azure OpenAI, you need to enter the Token, Deployment Name (aka Model Name), and the Endpoint URL. These information can be obtained from the Azure Portal. The API version is optional—you can specify a version or leave it blank to use the default version we selected. To prevent errors, refer to Microsoft's documentation and ensure you enter a valid API version.

If you are using a customized project template, you will need to fill in the default value for all required fields if they are not defined already. Tachyon will utilize these default values when creating child work items on a parent work item.

FOCUS ON YOUR WORK, NOT JUMPING FROM TOOL TO TOOL

Tachyon GPT integrates seamlessly within Azure DevOps so you can focus on the task at hand instead of jumping between tools in other environments. We understand how hard you work to refine and groom your work items, which is why Tachyon GPT will never change your work items without your explicit permission.

IMPROVE YOUR WORK ITEMS

Upon clicking in the "Improve" action you will be presented with two variants to fetch the improvement for the active work item.

Here is the full list of work item types that Tachyon GPT supports:

• Epics
• Features
• User Stories
• Requirements
• Issues
• Product Backlog Items
• Tasks
• Test Cases

Surprise me!

As stated, before, we don't want you to worry about losing you hard work refining and grooming your work item, that's why Tachyon GPT provides a custom dialog for showing and editing such changes in your work item. The custom modal dialog contains all the elements you need to manipulate the generated suggestions.

Edit your improvements with confidence

Title suggestions

You will be able to pick and choose from multiple generated suggestions for your work item, including the edition of the current title. Don't be shy, let your creativeness fly.

Description suggestions

The loaded description will contain the generated suggestions for this work item. For convenience purposes, Tachyon GPT also provides a section where differences can be compared between current description and suggested description. The suggested description can also be edited there and updated it back to the main dialog form.

Acceptance Criteria suggestions

Depending on the type of work item the dialog form will provide a suggestion for the acceptance criteria field. The same kind of behavior can be applied to acceptance criteria, including accessing to difference between current and suggested.

Refine your suggestions

You didn't like the suggestions you got? You can prompt Tachyon GPT with your own suggestions and requirements. For your convenience Improve button gets disabled, so you have a few options to hit on Refine buttons or just can just hit "Alt + Enter". Either way the Tachyon GPT will work its magic over, and it will return a newly generated suggestion based on your refinement text. How cool is that?

Add Specific Refinements

Another route to get generated suggestions is to click on "Specific Refinements". A form dialog will open allowing you to write some good old refinement text that will give Tachyon GPT more options to fetch a better suggested work item data. For standardization purposes this action behaves exactly like the refinement action we talked about before, where you have a couple of options to send this refinement over. After you click on Send Tachyon GPT will analyze the inputs, and it will show the suggested data within the familiar Improve Work Items dialog. Once you click on send it will change the active items fields in the ADO UI.

Generate a list of Sub Items

If you go this route Tachyon GPT will try to get new sub items for your work item. It's worth nothing that it won't try to add items for existent sub items based on their titles. This doesn't imply that is a perfect algorithm, and you won't find sometimes duplicated items among the suggested, but is a great start, right? Dialog will show a list of suggested items, and you can have the ability to edit each item's fields or delete if it doesn't adjust to your expectations. There is also the familiar refinement option to shake the list of suggested items based on a new premise you have about it.

GENERATE TEST CASES

After clicking on "Generate Test Case", a submenu will be displayed with two possible actions that will help you generate your most efficient Test Cases:

Surprise me!

"Surprise" me will automatically a modal will be displayed with a list of test cases generated based on the title and description of the current item.

Actions you can perform:

• Collapse/Expand All test cases.
• You can delete test cases, expand or collapse their details, or you can simply use the scroll.
• Edit the title of each generated test case in each of the accordion items.
• Edit the elements of each step: actions (#4) and expected results (#5).
• Edit the order (move up or down) of each step, as well as delete steps.
• Add new steps.
• Add test cases to the Plan (This option is available if your organization has the Test Plans service).
• Add new suggestions to improve the ones displayed earlier.

Add Test Case to a Plan:

• You will be able to select a plan from the list of Test Plans of your project or simply enter the name of a new one.
• You will be able to select a Test Suite from the list of Test Suites in your project or simply enter the name of a new one.

Validation on Save: If you attempt to click the "Save" button without selecting or entering a Test Plan and a Test Suite, a confirmation modal will appear with the following message:

"Save Without a Test Plan and/or Test Suite?"

"Are you sure you want to add test cases without including them in a test plan or test suite?"

If you click "Continue", the test cases will be created without being assigned to any Test Plan or Test Suite. If you select "Cancel", you can return and complete the required information to properly assign the test cases.

Note: It is recommended to always associate test cases with a Test Plan and Test Suite to ensure proper organization and traceability in your testing process.

Refine your suggestions

You can also instruct Tachyon GPT to fine-tune the suggestions according to your specific testing standards. To make things easier, the Send button will be disabled, giving you the freedom to choose from Refine buttons or simply press Alt + Enter. Whichever method you choose, Tachyon GPT will work its magic and provide you with a freshly generated test case suggestion based on your refinement text.

Add specific refinements

Clicking on "Specific refinements", a form dialog will open allowing you to write some good old refinement text that will give Tachyon GPT more options to fetch better suggested test cases data. For standardization purposes this action behaves exactly like the refinement action we talked about before, where you have a couple of options to send this refinement over. After you click on Send Tachyon GPT will analyze the inputs, and it will show the suggested data within the familiar Test Case Generator dialog what is displayed when you click on Surprise me action.

HAPPY PLANNING!

We hope you find Tachyon GPT useful for you, and it will save you some time and/or effort in your way to get a successful project going. All we ask in exchange is that you provide us with your feedback about this tool suggestions, critics, additions, or praise (:P) will be always welcome, and remember, our AI tool enhances productivity by streamlining processes, but it does not replace human effort. It's designed to work alongside users, respecting their expertise and providing intelligent assistance. User collaboration and input remain essential for optimal outcomes. Happy Planning!!