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Ask AI comes to Microsoft Teams

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TestRelic Team
TestRelic Team
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Last month we brought Ask AI into Slack. Today we're doing the same for Microsoft Teams — with full parity. Run an Ask AI prompt in a channel, schedule a weekly QA digest, share a dashboard back from the web app, and get a ping the moment a quality gate fails. And alongside it, we're shipping public and private share links for any AI artifact.

Parity with the Slack app​

If you've used the TestRelic Slack app, you already know the Teams app. It talks to the same Ask AI runtime, produces the same artifacts, and shares the same memory and privacy posture. What you get in Teams:

  • Ask AI in a channel — address the TestRelic bot with a prompt and the answer threads under your message, with charts and deep links.
  • Scheduled QA digests — any prompt can post on a schedule to a channel (a Monday flaky digest, a nightly regression alert that only posts on failure).
  • Share-back from the web app — push any Ask AI artifact to a Teams channel as a rich card or uploaded file.
  • Failure alerts on quality gates — a gate posts the moment it fails, with the failing case and an Open in TestRelic button.
  • Threaded follow-ups — replies continue the same Ask AI conversation, so context carries through.

Conversations are unified across web, Slack, and Teams — a Teams-originated chat shows up in the Ask AI sidebar with a Teams badge. The app only acts on prompts addressed to it; it does not read general channel traffic.

Installing is two steps (this part differs from Slack)​

Teams is stricter than Slack about how bots reach a workspace, so installation has two parts — and it's worth being explicit about it:

  1. Connect in TestRelic — go to Settings → Integrations → Microsoft Teams → Connect. This uses Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) OAuth and binds your Teams tenant to your TestRelic org.
  2. Add the Teams app package — the bot only appears in Teams once the app package is added: sideloaded by you, or uploaded by a Teams admin to your org's app catalog.

If you Connect and the bot doesn't show up, step 2 hasn't happened yet — that's the most common support question and it's covered in the Microsoft Teams integration guide.

The other half of today's release works everywhere Ask AI does. Every artifact in the Ask AI panel — a dashboard, report, test plan, presentation, table, or chart — can now be shared with a public or private link:

  • Public links render a read-only view of the artifact, filters and all, to anyone with the URL.
  • Private links require org sign-in.

Shared artifacts collect in an artifact library you can browse and re-share. It's the fastest way to get a generated report in front of a stakeholder who doesn't live in TestRelic. Details on the AI Insights & Artifacts page.

Plan notes​

The Teams app talks to Ask AI, which is part of the Growth plan (Plans & Billing). The integration installs on any plan; prompts on Starter orgs return an upgrade message.

FAQ: I clicked Connect but the bot isn't in Teams. Why?

OAuth Connect only links your tenant to TestRelic. The bot appears once the Teams app package is sideloaded or uploaded to your org's app catalog by a Teams admin. See the integration guide.

FAQ: Does the Teams app read my channel messages?

No. It only acts on prompts directly addressed to it — channel mentions, scheduled digests, and share-back. It does not ingest general channel traffic.