Polarion ALM

Avantages

Simplicity to maintain documentation (test cases, requirements) is one of the most useful features of this ALM tool.

Inconvénients

The reports that can be generated from Polarion are of basic nature. They could add facilities to add more kinds of reports/dashboards based on the data available to Polarion ALM.

Avantages

As one that was involved in writing requirements to the development team per our intended use:
Traceability matrix is the most complicated module in the SW and it is just done properly and in a correct way.
The navigation within the tool is also easy and reasonable.

Inconvénients

there is no such thing in Polarion organization by 'Folders' or 'Tree', everything is done by searching and it is enough not to give the right name or it was forgotten, you will easy get lost.

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Avantages

Polarion ALM is quite a complex tool that includes a wide range of functionality. For example Creation of functional test times, in which the time of the test can be measured during execution and thus make testing more effective

Inconvénients

It has an older and confusing design. It is quite complex, so in some cases it is difficult to understand how it works. Dark mode is missing.

Avantages

Polarion is superflexible and very configurable. If you use the standard configurations, you use less than 20% of the product. The power of Polarion lies in its customization. There are already a lot of extension examples in the contained sdk. Studying these examples make your head spin as you discover a lot of additional possibiities to adapt Polarion closer to your processes.
But also as a standalone product with standard configuration you have a tool with a super solid versioning concept. You can look and compare every version of your documents, WIs, testruns, heck you can even examine when configuration were changed.
In this way it is very difficult to lose information.
Also Polarion is super stable. The underlaying SVN-Repository and its datastructure is still backwards compatible with very old versions. Plugins usually work also after every updates (sometimes the JDK changed and you need to recompile).

Inconvénients

It is easy to shoot yourself into the foot. With all this flexibilty it is an easy mistake to fulfill every small wish in every small team. This leads to disfunctioning cross team processes. However this is an organizational issue, not the tools fault. But as the tool is very flexible and if you are a person who really like to adapt a tool very perfectly you can overengineer and get lost.
A Polarion Consultant usually knows the limit of customization you should not cross.