Polarion Fundamentals and Requirements User Training

This 2-days course will give you a detailed overview on how to use Polarion REQUIREMENTS in your daily work as requirements engineer.

You will learn how requirements can be tracked and managed with Polarion. You will become familiar with the different ways to author requirements by using the different front ends:

• Web-based requirements designer
• Polarion LiveDocuments Technology
• Integrated Wiki

Traceability is a key element to successfully manage requirements. Practical exercises will teach you how to manage traceability in your projects with Polarion REQUIREMENTS. You will learn how to create professional requirements documents for sign-off as well as how to plan requirements to different milestones

Polarion Fundamentals

• Understanding Work items
• Polarion Live docs
• Search and queries
• Traceability and consistency
• Polarion Wiki

Author Requirements and Specifications

• Track Requirements as Work items
• Create specifications using Polarion LiveDocs

Reuse Existing Specifications

• Use and Configure Polarion MS Word Import

Review and Collaboration

• Understand Polarion MS Word Round-trip
• Export Polarion LiveDocs for Review
• Import and Review Changes

Linking Requirements - Verification and Validation

• Link Requirements
• Manage multiple Polarion LiveDocs
• Create and Link Test Cases
• Report on Coverage and Traceability

• Approve Requirements
• Assign Requirements to Release

Branching Specifications - Variant and Release Management

• How to create a branch to manage a variant
• Different behaviour of branched requirements (floating versus frozen requirements)
• How to change and overwrite branched requirements
• How to compare branched requirements to understand changes in a variant
• How to propagate changes to branched requirements
• How to use Polarion Live-Branch™ for Release Management

Baselining

• Create and Manage Baselines
• Polarion Time-Machine - Browse and Reference Requirements from a Specific Baseline

Handling Changes

• Track Change Requests using Work Items
• Manage changes on requirements
• How to use Polarion LiveDocs as Impact Document

• Requirements Engineer
• Business Analysts
• Test Manager
• Project Manager