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Polarion Software took to the road in March, exhibiting at the Embedded World show in Nuremberg, Germany. We were pretty sure that Polarion’s requirements management and test management solutions can benefit many developers of embedded systems, and this show is definitely the place to meet them. The response and interest at our booth were better even than we dared hope for, and we’re quite sure it was not just due to the presence of Polarion’s polar bear mascot in the flesh (or should I say “in the fur”?)

One of the things that garnered attention from attendees (and not just because a polar bear was showing it around) was the presence of the Best Quality Tool award Polarion won earlier this year at Software Quality Days in Vienna. But the most intense interest focused on our Automotive and Medical Device solutions. Both industries are heavily into embedded systems development, and Polarion’s Requirements Management, Quality Assurance, Project Management, Change Management, Impact Analysis, Baselines, Reporting, plus templates and embedded standards and best-practices know-how all rolled into in a single, affordable, unified web-based platform solution really struck a chord with many of the embedded developers present. (Or at least enough of them to ensure that our sales team will not get bored any time soon!)

Polarion will be involved at many more events in the coming months. This biggie on the horizon is STAREAST in Orlando, Florida USA. Check our Events Calendar to see where all we’ll be going… and if you will be at any of these events as well, do stop by and say hello. And if you see a stray polar bear… it’s ours.

Polarion polar bear mascot with Polarion trade show
booth staff presenting the Best Quality Tool award

We’re very excited to report that Polarion Software was selected as winner of the “Tool Challenge” event at Software Quality Days, held January 18-19 in Vienna, Austria.

As winners, we were awarded the Best Quality Tool Award 2012 by the conference board. Polarion faced stiff competition from the likes of IBM, Tricentis, Seapine and GFB Softwareentwicklung.

Software Quality Days is the largest event focusing on software quality in Austria and one of the largest ones in the world. The “Tool Challenge” is a competition that allows vendors to present their solution by solving a practice-related task live in front of the audience. The winning solution is chosen by a special jury together with the audience, the winner receives the Best Quality Tool Award.

Polarion would like to thank the selection panel for the award which recognized the strength of our solution, which was presented by Tim Ströbele, Manager of Professional Services at Polarion Software.

Polarion's Uwe Bucher accepts the Best Quality Tool Award 2012 on behalf of Polarion Software at Software Quality Days in Vienna Austria.

Martin Klotzberg, CEO of our Austrian Country Partner covalgo consulting GmbH: „We are proud to be a part of the Polarion community, together with Polarion we will capture the Austrian market. A few years ago we decided to become a partner of Polarion. The reason behind this decision was that Polarion fits perfectly with our consulting philosophy. This award once more points out our choice for this trendsetting tool was correct.”

New to Polarion?

If you’ve followed a link here and would like to learn more about Polarion’s award-winning solution, we would be happy to guide you. Below are some links that can help you get started.

Polarion has 1 fully-integrated application lifecycle management platform with several products that enable users to access different feature sets. The two products that have the features that won the Tool Challenge are:

• Polarion ALM: Product Info — Trial Options
• Polarion REQUIREMENTS: Product Info — Trial Options

Links to some resources:

• Whitepapers
• Tutorial Videos
• What Polarion Customers Say

If we can help you or answer some questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

Let’s face it: In software development, quality gains are among the hardest points to score and testing your product is as critical as developing it. Practice reveals that with the surging demand for continuous ongoing testing the costs of developing modern applications increase exponentially.

A sound approach and an effective framework at hand for managing your test process is all you need to get things right — that is, maximize your testing efficiency, promote reusability of test artifacts, enable collaboration across your testing organization, increase end-to-end visibility of the entire process, and ultimately reduce the application lifecycle costs.  But how can you make that work? This blog series will cover Polarion’s best practices in test and quality management. You will learn about the Polarion QA concept and capabilities, as well as how to better adjust th em to your own needs and goals.

In the first article we demonstrate steps for installing and working with Simple QA, one of numerous Polarion extensions available on the Polarion POP site. We also discuss the concept of comment-based testing introduced by Simple QA, as well as gauge its advantages and potential for improvement. Subsequent articles will take you into more advanced QA topics.

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