Knowledge Base: Copilot4DevOps Frequently Asked Questions
This FAQ consolidates the most valuable questions from our webinar “Unlock the Power of AI to Transform Requirements”. It’s organized into categories to help you quickly find answers related to features, security, integration, and licensing.
Product Features
1. How is Copilot4DevOps different from ChatGPT or GitHub Copilot?
Unlike general-purpose AI tools, Copilot4DevOps is built specifically for requirements and DevOps workflows. It integrates natively with Azure DevOps, enabling automated requirements elicitation and analysis, test generation, and compliance-ready documentation within your existing environment.
2. Can Copilot generate test cases and test data?
Yes. Copilot4DevOps can automatically generate test cases from Azure requirements and also help design test data scenarios. Test execution itself remains inside Azure Test Plans.
3. Does Copilot support visualization and diagrams?
Yes. Copilot4DevOps can generate multiple types of diagrams, including flowcharts, entity diagrams, ERD, use cases, etc. These can be further edited and aligned with your internal design standards.
4. Can AI Edit improve requirements?
Yes. AI Edit reviews requirements for clarity, consistency, and testability. It reduces ambiguity and ensures standardized, high-quality requirement statements.
5. What is the “apply to drill down work items” option in Elicit?
It allows high-level requirements to be broken down into detailed, linked work items, ensuring completeness and traceability.
6. Can Copilot create an Understanding Document?
Yes. It can compile requirements and artifacts into structured documentation suitable for stakeholder reviews and compliance audits.
7. Can we save and reuse prompts?
Yes. Copilot4DevOps offers “Text Block” features, which allow users to save frequently used prompts or instructions. Later, they can be directly imported within the input field, allowing users to avoid writing the same instructions repeatedly.
Integration & Compatibility
1. Do I need Modern Requirements4DevOps (MR4DevOps) as well?
Copilot4DevOps can be used as a standalone product in Azure DevOps. However, if you are a current user of Modern Requirements4DevOps, you can already start using the Lite version of Copilot4DevOps. These two tools together offer the complete requirements management solution.
2. Does Copilot work across all Azure DevOps projects, or only with MR?
Even if you are not an active user of MR, you can use Copilot4DevOps as an independent tool across all your Azure Projects.
3. Can Copilot use internal standards and templates?
Yes. You can configure it to follow your organization’s glossary, compliance rules, and templates. This ensures consistency with corporate standards.
4. Can the model be deployed in a private sandbox?
Yes. Copilot4DevOps can run in secure environments, giving IT teams full control over compliance and governance.
Security & Data Privacy
1. Will data be exposed outside my organization?
No. Copilot4DevOps is designed for enterprise security. Data stays within your Azure DevOps environment and is not shared externally.
2. Can access be restricted by user groups?
Yes. Administrators can configure permissions to limit usage, ensuring responsible token consumption and role-based access.
3. If we upload files or use our own LLM, where is the data stored?
Files are stored in your own Azure storage when configured. Copilot4DevOps does not take ownership of or reshare customer data.
Usage & Application
1. Can AI transform meeting minutes or uploaded artifacts into user stories or work items?
Yes. By using the Elicit feature of Copilot4DevOps, teams can transform meeting notes, meeting transcripts, chat, and other unstructured documents into different work items, such as epics, features, user stories, tasks, bugs, test cases, etc., and add them to the Azure DevOps.
2. Can Copilot generate compliance-ready documentation?
Yes. By using the SOP/Document generator feature of Copilot4DevOps, teams can generate documents that align with standards like ISO, FDA, or internal audit frameworks.
3. Can Copilot help with both business and technical rules?
Yes. It captures and documents business rules (policies, constraints) alongside technical specifications, bridging communication between analysts and developers.
Pricing & Licensing
1. What’s the difference between Lite and the full version?
Copilot4DevOps Lite offers features like Elicit, Analyze, Convert, and Transform. The Copilot4DevOps Plus offers extra features like Impact Assessment, Codeless App generation, QA assistant, Dynamic Prompts, and allows you to bring your own LLM. On the other hand, Copilot4DevOps Ultimate offers advanced features like AI chat, Diagramming, SOP/Document generator, Mockup Tool, etc.
2. Is Copilot4DevOps included in MR4DevOps licensing?
The Lite version is bundled with MR4DevOps. The full version is licensed separately for organizations requiring advanced features.
3. Will Copilot4DevOps continue evolving with new AI models like GPT-5?
Yes. In the next few months, we are planning to bring GPT-5 support within Copilot4DevOps.