Revolutionary Requirements Content Management

Manage multiple types of requirements-related content — wiki, office documents, and data artifacts — in one place, on a comprehensive platform that also enables other parts of your organization to leverage requirements and efficiently manage the rest of the process.

Reuse & customize standard requirements libraries

Start new projects faster, preserve knowledge assets

Easy linking for structure and traceability

Create traceability seamlessly and inherently as people do their jobs day to day

Approval process support with special workflow

Speed up the process. Stakeholders just move to next step and everyone gets notified automatically.

Web Based Environment

Easy to use web application with unified toolset supporting all stakeholders. Create testing projects to track test cases, easily linking them to requirements. Create bug reports or change requests for developers, collaborate with requirements engineers on acceptance criteria, etc.

Process Integration

No other tool today has Polarion ALM's unique capability to define a common process across team/role boundaries to embrace all stakeholders. Use requirement-driven testing, Agile testing, or whatever process works for your organization.

Test case to requirements/tasks linking

Testers can always know what verifies what

Workflow driven test execution

Control the test case lifecycle and test execution with Polarion Workflow.

"Suspect" Links

Make testers alert for changes in issues verified by their tests

Dashboards and Reports

Out-of-box wiki based dashboards and reports deliver a wealth of information about unit test coverage and other vital stats, project by project, or aggregated across all department projects, or the entire enterprise. Dashboards and reports are customizable to show what´s most important for your stakeholders.

Easy linking of artifacts and/or content

Traceability happens day to day as part of work process

Cross-project traceability linking

A "must have" for many regulatory compliance scenarios

Maintainable traceability with bi-directional editable matrix

Ensure accuracy and control for even the most stringent requirements

Customizable impact analysis views

Customizable issue types

Support your process & semantics; adapt the tool, not how you work

Issue-to-issue linking

Gain visibility for relationships, dependencies, follow-ups, etc.

Issue-to-source code linking with internal or external VCS client

Always know what revision implemented changes to your code

Apache Lucene query engine with visual query builder; customizable shortcuts

Quickly find what you want to see; get back to most needed views fast

Automated Project Planning

Assign tasks to milestones and estimate time needed to complete and watch the plan appear. See bottlenecks before committing to schedules.

Live Project Plan in GANTT format

Managers know exactly where projects stand based on real task completion data. See where resources are over or under utilized. Manage your resources, not a planning tool.

Simple, straightforward time tracking

People log actual time spent on tasks as the close them; automatic comparison to estimate. Increase transparency and accountability, improve planning accuracy over time.

Information exchange with legacy tools

Facilitate collaboration with stakeholders tied to older project management tools

Integrated, Automated Build Management

Set up industry standard Ant and Maven builds for continuous integration and constant quality

Threaded comments in issues

Stakeholders easily discuss different topics related to the same issue, seeing only the thread(s) that concern them

Global and project wiki spaces

Create, manage, and preserve history of content and knowledge assets relevant for the entire organization, and for each managed project

Tracker and wiki content integration

No more barrier between tools. No more application switching. Easy access to key tracker information for non-technical stakeholders.

Stakeholder notifications

Those who need to know are automatically informed of all changes so processes don't bog down

"Live" CMMI assessment

Based on actual data, per project, or across the enterprise; better accuracy, less guesswork about state of compliance

Agile process compliance assessment w/ embedded knowledge

Teams can learn Agile process easily and see how they stack up against industry best practices

Extensive real-time quality audits and metrics

Always up to date, based on real task data for accuracy and timeliness