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codeBeamer Betty - General information

System Requirements

This page describes the hardware and software requirements of codeBeamer Betty. For general requirements, please refer to the wiki page titled System Requirements.

Operating Systems

Windows, Linux and Mac-OS on 64-bit x86 architectures with at least 8 GB memory. 32-bit operating systems are no longer supported.

The amount of memory required depends on the number of concurrent users, and the data in the system.

Virtual Systems

codeBeamer Betty versions are tested with VMware ESXi 5.0, ESX 6.5.0, ESX 6.7.0 and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2).

Docker

Docker image is changed, please note the following changes

centos 7.6.1810 is used as a base image
additional environment variables are added
hosted SCMs are removed from the image
codeBeamer is available on http://localhost/ without /cb

Docker image is tested with 18.06.1-ce version of Docker

Docker with OpenShift

Docker and OpenShift configurations are automatic, please follow the installation instructions.

codeBeamer Betty versions are tested with OpenShift (OKD 3.11) on AWS instances

Supported Java Runtime Environment (JRE)

Platform	Version	Tested with	Recommended	Platform
Open JDK	1.8.252 or higher	1.8.0_252-b09.1 / 64-Bit		Windows
Open JDK	1.8.252 or higher	1.8.0_252-b09 / 64-Bit		Linux

Supported Application Servers

codeBeamer is shipped and tested with Apache Tomcat 8.5.50. The windows-based installer has the tomcat application server already included.

It is recommended to upgrade to Apache Tomcat 8.5.50 version because of http://tomcat.apache.org/security-8.html

codeBeamer 10.1.x Supported Databases

Database	Version	Tested with
MySql	5.7	5.7.24
Oracle	Oracle 12c Standard and Enterprise Edition	12.2.0.1.0
*(our tests show that Oracle 19.3c and MariaDb are stable but right now we do not recommend to use this on production environments)*

codeBeamer Betty Supported Browsers

In all browsers, JavaScript must be enabled to use the full functionality of codeBeamer.

Browser	Version	Tested with
Internet Explorer	11 (compatibility mode must be switched off)	11.674.15063.0
Firefox	75.0.x	75.0
Chrome	81.0.x	81.0.4044.129

Internet Explorer is tested with Windows 10 using built in Internet Explorer 11. Windows 7,8 Operation Systems with shipped IE11 are also supported but not tested.

For Mozilla browsers ( up from non-tested Firefox version 70 ), it might be needed to toggle the value of dom.storage.next_gen to false in case there are page elements fails to load ( i.e. new comment window ) due to a known issue in Firefox as described in https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/some-pages-or-page-elements-fail-load-after-updating

Source Code Management Systems (SCM)

Git	2.11 or higher	tested with Git 2.11
Mercurial (requires special support contract)	3.0.1 or higher	tested with 3.7.3
Perfroce (requires special support contract)	7.0 or higher	tested with 7.0.16.1930
Subversion	1.7.x, 1.8.x, 1.9.x	tested with 1.8.8, 1.9.1

JIRA Integration

JIRA Server version	Tested with
JIRA 7.2.6 or higher	JIRA 7.2.6 and 7.5.1.

Microsoft Office

Windows 7,10
	Office 2013	IE11
		Chrome (latest)
		Firefox (latest)
	Office 2016	IE11
		Chrome (latest)
		Firefox (latest)
	Office 365	IE11
		Chrome (latest)
		Firefox (latest)

You can find more details about Office Edit support

Office edit / Webdav have problems with Mac Office 2016 does not work with Office edit.