Polarion Software Weblog

Polarion Software recently released version 1.5 of FastTrack – a free Tracker plugin for Eclipse that provides robust, stand-alone tracking in the Eclipse IDE, also serves as an off-line client for the Polarion ALM platform.

Major new features include:

• Support for Subversive from Eclipse (i.e. runs with most actual versions of Subversive from Eclipse.org)
• Support for Multiple assignees for work items
• Support for multi-line custom fields
• Work Records
• Works with Polarion ALM 3.x

Users of previous FastTrack versions can get the update through the Eclipse update feature.

First-time users can download from the Polarion Community site at:
www.polarion.org/index.php?page=download&project=fasttrack

In case you haven’t got the word via some other means, Polarion ALM 3.1.0 is officially released. You can see an overview of new features and improvements at:
http://www.polarion.com/products/alm/spotlight.php.

Polarion^® ALM 3.0 is now available for Linux in addition to the previously released distribution for Windows^®. Scripts providing fully or partially automated installation are included in the distribution and support the following platforms:

• Debian
• SuSE
• RedHat

(Details on the download page.)

You can download the distribution and Linux installation guide documentation at “http://www.polarion.com/downloads/alm.php. You can select either the Team or the Enterprise download (it’s really the same archive).

The limited-time free license offer for Polarion ALM Team also applies to the Linux version – check it out if you haven’t already!

Just a quick post to let you know that we’ve just released SVN Express by Polarion^®. Designed for people who aren’t yet using Subversion but would like to check it out, SVN Express contains Subversion and everything you need to run it on Windows^®, all in a single FREE download. No need to hunt all over for the right infrastructure software. The archive contains it, and the Windows installer program installs and configures Subversion, Apache, and everything else needed. SVN Express is, quite simply, the fastest, easiest way to get Subversion up and running.

Also in the bundle are some free and/or open source tools, such as data mirgrators and SVN clients, to help SVN newcomers get the most from Subversion – again, without the need to hunt all over the internet for individual tools and components. There’s even a copy of SubTrain, Polarion’s open source training materials to help SVN newbies ramp up fast.

For the complete rundown on what’s in SVN Express visit www.polarion.com/products/svn/svn_express.php. Download it at www.polarion.com/downloads/svn.php.

We realize that may readers of this blog already use SVN (hopefully in conjunction with Polarion products!) But if you know of anyone who’s been kicking around the idea of moving to Subversion, we’d appreciate it if you would point them to SVN Express as a fast easy way to get started. Thanks!

Big news – we’ve just released Polarion^® ALM for Subversion™ 3.0, a much anticipated advance that we hope shows how serious we are about driving forward the art and science of ALM.

Polarion ALM for Subversion 3.0 remains the only single-tool ALM solution based entirely on industry standards and open source. It applies the collaboration and management power of Subversion to the entire process of application lifecycle management, with productivity-boosting features like user-adjustable interfaces that let you "switch hats”" to see different views of a project in different work contexts. The new centralized Live Quality dashboards give you real-time, actual QA information, undistorted by guesses and wishful thinking. In fact, from the low cost of ownership to the elimination of so-called "ALM suites" cobbled together from point solutions, Polarion ALM for Subversion 3.0 really has no competition.

Get Started for FREE

To help you experience for yourself just how revolutionary the new Polarion ALM 3.0 is, the fully-functional Polarion ALM Team™ product is free through the end of this year.

• Product Info: http://www.polarion.com/products/alm/team.php
• Download here: http://www.polarion.com/downloads/alm.php
• Sign up for your free license: www.polarion.com/products/alm/team_order.php.

In addition to the Team product, there’s Polarion ALM Enterprise™ for Subversion, which adds Requirements Management, Project Management, maturity model (CMMI) and agile process (XP) compliance support, Flexible Workflow Engine – among other features. And finally there’s Polarion ALM Multi-Site™, which adds repository replication and syncing over WAN for large, multi-regional or even global organizations.

Here are some additional links you’ll find useful for digging a bit deeper:

• Release Details: For more detail on new features and the new 3.0 product lineup, see the article at http://www.polarion.com/products/alm/release30.php.
• Products Overview: A quick overview of all ALM products is available at links starting from http://www.polarion.com/products/alm/index.php
• Download: Download the Polarion ALM Platform and get 30-day evaluation license with Enterprise features at http://www.polarion.com/downloads/alm.php

Along with the release of Polarion ALM 3.0 you’ll notice we have give the Polarion Software website a facelift. It’s new, it’s different, but is it better? Let us know what you think!

The Polarion Community is still pretty much the same, including the demo server. Because of some custom functionality there we don’t yet have it updated to Polarion 3.0… but we will soon.