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Polarion POP Challenge 2010 – and the winner is…

Tuesday, May 18th, 2010 by Administrator

The Polarion POP Challenge 2010 is over, and the winner has been selected from among the 10 extensions submitted:

We would like to thank all the entrants for their great work. We appreciate not only the extensions themselves, which are so valuable for the benefit and help they provide to Polarion users, but we also honor also your participation in building the Polarion community. The growth of the Polarion POP portal definitively proves the power and viability of our Polarion platform.

Winners

Picking a winner proved extremely difficult. Voting by the panel of judges resulted in a decision to add a third place winner and prize. So without further ado… the winners of Polarion POP Challenge 2010 are:

1st placeScalable, nested, graphical Gantt projectplan by Marc Dzaebel (H&D)

A WiKi page showing the Polarion Live Plan as a common Gantt diagram. Tasks are sorted by parent relations and start date. They are hierarchically nested and the depth can be dynamically changed. The planned duration from the Live Plan is used to show scaled graphical bars so that one page fills the complete project plan. Summary tasks are rendered black/italic. Date ranges and time points can be set via the UI and you can change the scale dynamically.

Screenshot  Gantt diagram

Keywords from the jury comments: sweet job, very useful, wow, generates nice ideas, nice piece of code, door opener…

2nd placeSecond place : T-Polls by Sebastian Bejga (T-Systems / DHBW Stuttgart)

Project configuration defining the work item type “poll” and web application embedded on Polarion Wiki where users can vote on these polls.

Screenshot T-Polls

3rd placeThird place : Role Based SVN Access by Manuel Sprock (Phoenix Contact)

Manage SVN repository access according to Polarion roles. You don’t want to grant any user access to the entire SVN repository? And you don’t want to modify the access file manually? Role Based SVN Access is what you need!

Congratulations to all of you!

Finally, we would like to encourage everyone to share their extensions with all Polarion users as an active member in the Polarion ecosystem. We hope you can benefit not only from the support we provide to write the extensions but also from the feedback that comes from all Polarion Community users.

See you soon on Polarion POP Portal!

Polarion 2010 SR-1 now available

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010 by Robert Palomo

Service Release 1 (SR-1) for Polarion 2010 is now available. The release delivers some new features and significant improvements in additions to bug fixes and general improvements:

  • Polarion installs as a service on Windows
  • Work item tree view supports multiple link roles in queries (ALM and Requirements only)
    Screenshot
  • New “Load All” action for work item tables

    Screenshot

  • Update scripts check license validity
  • Polarion waits if the repository is not available
  • Possibility to create work records via Web Services
  • Support for Mozilla Firefox 3.6
  • Bundled Apache is now version 2.2.15 (was 2.2.13)
  • Bundled Subversion is now version 1.6.6 (was 1.6.5)

Details can be found in the release notes in the Version History file included in distributions.

DOWNLOAD UPDATE DISTRIBUTIONS

Update bundles work with all supported operating systems.

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We care about usability

Thursday, April 1st, 2010 by Jan Stawarczyk

At Polarion Software, we believe that excellent usability in our products is essential for satisfaction of our users. Usability plays a crucial role in our development process. We care about usability!Beginning with user research, through constant mapping of your requirements, up through usability testing, we constantly strive for your satisfaction.

Because we think it’s important to constantly promote activities around usability techniques, we are proud to announce that we have joined as corporate members of the Prague Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (ACM SIGCHI Prague), a local branch of the worldwide organization of ACM SIGCHI dedicated to raising awareness in the field of usability and computer-human interaction.

Give your boss $10,000

Monday, February 15th, 2010 by Robert Palomo

What would your boss say if you handed over $10,000 worth of Polarion licenses? Would you get to keep the spiffy new Apple iPad that goes with it? You’ll never know unless you enter the

Polarion POP Challenge banner

Win an Apple iPad and $10K in Polarion Licenses

There’s no time to lose: get cracking on the slickest, most electrifying Polarion extension you can think of  (maybe it’s time to share that one you’ve already written?) and enter it in the Polarion POP Challenge 2010.  It’s the first-ever event of its kind, so there’s every chance you could come out Top Dog. Even if you come out Second Dog you’ll take home an Apple iPod Touch for you, and $5000 in Polarion software licenses for your company.

Read the Rules and Download Entry Form »

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New integration platform for Polarion ALM

Thursday, February 11th, 2010 by Administrator

If you need to migrate or integrate existing (legacy) tools to ensure a successful, cost effective and seamless rollout with user acceptance, or exchange data with external partners in order to fulfill contractual requirements, be sure to check out the new agosense.symphony Integration Platform for Polarion.

This new extension from agosense covers all aspects of integration and data exchange in combination with Polarion ALM., enabling you to easily integrate established systems such as configuration management systems with a modern ALM platform to achieve a continuous development process. Adapters integrating a variety of systems/data formats are available, including:

  • IBM Rational DOORS, ClearCase, and RequisitePro
  • Atlassian JIRA
  • Mozilla Bugzilla
  • Perforce
  • HP Quality Center
  • Requirements Interchange Format (RIF)

This extension is supported by Polarion Software (current maintenance/support agreement required). For more info and downloads, visit the Polarion POP portal at
http://extensions.polarion.com/polarion/extensions/extension.jsp?extension=PE-135.


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