Polarion® FastTrack™ - Free tracker plugin for Eclipse IDE
FastTrack is a FREE tracker plugin for Eclipse. It provides basic issue tracking, plus basic project planning and team collaboration, all deeply integrated into the Eclipse IDE.
This FREE Eclipse plugin is a great way to get started with Polarion ALM technology. Used alone, FastTrack delivers essential functionality sufficient for many Eclipse development scenarios. Used as an Eclipse client for Polarion ALM for Subversion, you can seamlessly take advantage of the advanced software lifecycle management features of Polarion ALM Team or Polarion ALM Enterprise right from the Eclipse IDE.
It's all done with Subversion!
FastTrack uses a Subversion repository as a standard platform for sharing data between team members. Both teams and individual developers can benefit from the unified approach where issues are represented by XML files and versioned in the Subversion repository together with all other project artifacts.
FastTrack Features for Eclipse
The deeply integrated FastTrack plugin for Eclipse provides:
- Issue tracking and planning for Requirements, Tasks, Change Requests, etc. (called "Work Items")
- Customizable Work Item types
- Cross-linking of Work Items - track dependency and other relationships
- Linking of Work Items with other artifacts in the Eclipse workspace
- Linking of repository revisions with Work Items for traceability
- Search Work Items using the standard Eclipse search facility
- History of Work Items
- Comparison of different historical revisions of any Work Item
- Queries supporting your development process; pre-define them in Team or Personal scope
- Advanced Commit dialog: Easily link commits to Work Items, optionally tracking time spent, and more. Pre-commit policies check that the code being committed meets your defined guidelines- code must be compilable, for example.
- XML data shared via Subversion - no complicated database setup, no administration headaches.
- Fast, easy installation and simple customization
- Straightforward, easy-to use UI based on Eclipse concepts
Important Compatibility Note
The current release of FastTrack does not support some of the newer features of Polarion ALM 3.0 (when FastTrack is used as an Eclipse client for the Polarion ALM platform). For example, multiple assignees and Work Records are not supported. An update release of FastTrack with support for Polarion ALM 3.0 is planned for Q4, 2007. Watch for announcements on the Polarion Weblog and the Polarion Community.
How to get FastTrack
The FastTrack tracker plugin for Eclipse is yours to use and share without charge or obligation. Why? Because it helps more people to discover the benefits of Polarion's innovative software lifecycle management technology.
All we ask is that you register so we can have some idea of the level of interest out there. Your one-time registration enables you to access and download FastTrack and future updates, plus evaluation versions of other Polarion ALM solutions, plus free whitepapers, technical articles, and other information that might be of interest in your organization. Information you provide is kept strictly confidential and never shared with third parties.
More about FastTrack, including discussion forums, is available on the Polarion Community.
