Polarion ALM Reviews

We use Polarion ALM for software development, including requirements management, testing, change requests, and task tracking. We set up the environment by configuring items and reports based on user requests. Once the environment is prepared, users work with what we have set up. We collaborate with them to define their needs and then develop the technical solutions to meet them.

We also use Polarion ALM for traceability and compliance. It is particularly strong in areas related to software functional safety and cybersecurity. One advantage is acquiring templates and then easily modifying them to fit your specific needs.

I use the solution as a documentation control system. Polarion ALM is used for all facets of project management, release, testing, and validation. All the tools required are included in the solution. 

The solution's customization ability lets us tailor it to all our needs. Polarion ALM is cloud-based and therefore our teams all over the world can collaborate using the solution internationally.

I work in an industry where I mainly look after the requirements, for which I use Polarion ALM.

The features of the solution are most valuable when it comes to its use in our company's development-related area.

Based on the requirements of my company, I can say that the tool helps collect information from different people with the help of a component in the tool known as epics. The tool offers our company the capabilities and features for use cases. The tool mainly helps our company in the area of planning, especially on the agile side we work on presently, which we recently integrated with DevOps. The planning phase is worked out based on the aforementioned details.

The solution is to create the documentation necessary, especially if it is to be given in technical documentation, to get the right to put a medical device on the market. For a medical device, you have to give the regulatory authority a lot of information, and they go down to the lines of code and to the risk management of this line of code, for this database is needed since it is no more possible to do it with hands. In this case, they outsourced the validation of the software with another company, and they made the software with another company. Polarion was used to extract from the software the information for the regulatory authority.

I worked with a customer to use Polarion. My experience is about the feedback and the output of the tool. It worked, but it wasn't the best one I have evaluated.

Speaking from my experience, I get the feedback of the user, and I get told about the document to be provided in the technical documentation. It's mostly about the report or the reporting. It's also about how to extract the quality data from a huge management report saying that all the software requirements were correctly evaluated from case management. This evaluation is correctly re-evaluated with software for the VnV process. So all of these reports and with software like Polarion, one must be able to get all of these reports with just a click, which is somehow not the case with Polarion, especially with the experience I had. There is a lot of work to be done to complete the documentation needed.

I’ve worked on a few exercises, mainly on importing requirements, customization, and integrating with other third-party software. 

The tool's most valuable feature is its browser experience. I rate its traceability feature a ten out of ten. From the initial stage to the release, you can manage everything through a single point. 

We use the solution for managing the requirements for a development project for a new type of transportation system. The challenge was to create a common basis for a multi-functional DevOps team working on a big program with different connected projects and to improve the development processes with a single, unified platform for requirements management, development support, testing, and release management. A major need was to more effectively plan, orchestrate, and track the requirements for our complex system across those multiple projects, and their individual yet connected lifecycles.

The tool helped us to more effectively and efficiently gather and structure the information (requirements, test plans, project management data, etc.), and share it with the involved stakeholders in a safe and change-controlled manner. It also allowed us to easily link the technical data to the PLM and 3D Design Tools and thus provide a common baseline for the whole team (which is multi-functional, spread over different locations). Compliance Management was significantly improved, and test plans were more easily created and linked to the requirements data.

We're an automotive company. Polarion ALM captures our customers' requirements and validates against those requirements.  We have our environment within our mother company, so only our people can see our data. I think it's called a project environment, but we have multiple projects. We work on the customer requirements and translate them into products designed here in our headquarters. Those are produced in factories across the globe.

Only the engineers and the test engineers in the headquarters will have access to Polarion. However, it is within the system of our mother company, so they have an automotive and medical project. We'll be in the automotive project, but we still coordinate with the guy managing the system. We want to make sure we're the only ones who can see our data. That is also a requirement of our audit. 

Polarion ALM helps us better structure our customer requirements, and we can also validate the specs of our products against those. If anything changes on our side, we see the impact, and we can see the effect If a customer changes requirements.