Polarion Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)

Collaboration, traceability and workflow are the three core principles built into our DNA. With Polarion ALM you'll be able to:

• Facilitate synchronicity and get 100 percent browser-based access to all Polarion data
• Enable real-time communication between analysts, engineers, QA members and DevOps teams via threaded discussions, wikis, notifications, alerts and more
• Pass any audit, compliance or regulatory inspection with traceability that is easily implemented and guaranteed via automatic change control of every requirement
• Manage work items and documents via workflows that enforce how and when they move from state to state based on definable rules, with full audit trails, electronic signature and security
• Access our time machine to browse, search and report any historical state of your project just like you do the current state
• Use native clustering for load balancing and failover strategies
• Leverage out-of-the-box integrations and Open APIs to extend functionality

Manage all testing activities from a central platform. Polarion ALM allows you to:

• Create test cases and easily link them to their corresponding work items such as requirements, change requests, other test cases and more
• Parameterize your test steps to separate a test specification and test items configuration so you can execute the same procedure several times to fully cover your complex test conditions
• Automatically create bug reports and tasks for developers based on test failures to shorten the fix time
• Leverage automated test cases as a "first-class citizen." Integrate with third-party test automation tools via Open API, create auto-run via builds and be import-ready for any test results in xUnit file format
• Execute test cases with online test execution panel or offline by exporting to MS Excel and importing test results back
• Build traceability from requirements, not just to test cases but individual test records
• Accurately and consistently automate verification and verification tasks with electronic signatures
• Access our HP QC Connector and get seamless integration with the HP Quality Center for test management

Adopt modern agile techniques at once—or incrementally—with out of the box project templates that can be adjusted to your needs. You'll get the following agile features:

• Iterative planning with team velocity management to set predictions on empirical data
• Support for your preferred estimation methodology: time, story points, money and the ability to predict the project completion based on calculated velocity
• Define done workflow conditions, for example, mark a story as done only if documentation task is performed, performance test assessment is attached, etc.
• Link agile user stories with supportive documentation such as component and design requirement specifications to ensure functional and quality consistency
• Electronically sign the use stories as approved by quality control engineers or product owners
• Setup a continuous integration and verification process with automated traceability from reported issues to user stories
• Enable baselining and versioning. Agile means change, and by using Polarion, you can quickly see who changed what, when and why!
• Achieve both speed and compliance. Polarion has been proven to be the ideal enterprise agile solution

Improve decision-making and project execution with detailed analytics and real-time status reports. Polarion ALM lets you:

• View any report online in real-time, including on mobile devices—or export to pdf for offline access
• Easily create your own reports with our online WYSIWYG report designer
• Open any report from any historical moment with our exclusive time machine functionality
• Run reports across multiple projects to help coordinate activities across disparate teams, and use BIRT for reporting across multiple data sources
• Automate event monitoring and change notifications plus push important information to collaborators via My Polarion dashboards
• Assess the performance of your project in real-time—live, always up-to-date and fully configurable to your needs
• Ensure your code meets metrics for security, reliability and maintainability with status source code analysis
• Extend the reporting capabilities by in-place scripting with full access to Open API or deploy your own custom widgets

Track all possible and reported failures. Plan and assign tasks to mitigate them. Get the ability to:

• Track issues automatically on any test failure, no matter if test is manual or automated, performed in Polarion or in a third-party tool, you can ensure the issue is tracked immediately for all activities
• Assign issues automatically based on issue classification (category, severity, component, etc.)
• Analyze the quality of the requirements by measuring the number of issues and change requests linked to requirements (imported or tracked manually in Polarion)
• Identify all possible failures, risks, harms and hazards, and plan and assign tasks to mitigate the potential risk
• Access built-in project templates (fully customizable), allowing you to manage potential risks, follow the standard Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) approach and save time when creating risk assessment for new projects
• Reduce the risk of critical bugs going untested before being released into the field

Setup the continuous delivery and iterative development to release frequently without compromising the consistency, integrity and regulatory compliance.

• Ensure that what gets built is what was planned by detailed Product Release to Line of Code traceability
• Improve overall collaboration and process automation between Development and Operations (DevOps)
• Leverage our integrations with leading tools such as Hudson, Ant and Maven, and ElectricCloud
• Quickly track down issues with complete audit trails of builds and releases
• Speed up compile and error recovery processes with mail notifications on build or test failures