Polarion ALM vs PractiTest comparison

Siemens and PractiTest are both solutions in the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites category. Siemens is ranked #3 with an average rating of 8.3, while PractiTest is ranked #21. Siemens holds a 7.5% mindshare in ALM, compared to PractiTest’s 0.8% mindshare. Additionally, 88% of Siemens users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of PractiTest users who would recommend it.

Polarion ALM

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 15, 2024

PractiTest and Polarion ALM compete in the Application Lifecycle Management category. PractiTest stands out in pricing and support, while Polarion ALM offers advanced features that justify its cost.

Features: PractiTest provides customizable dashboards, extensive integration capabilities, and a user-friendly interface. Polarion ALM includes comprehensive traceability, robust requirements management, and effective change management features.

Room for Improvement: PractiTest could enhance its documentation, expand its feature set, and improve its desktop capabilities. Polarion ALM can be complex for new users, may require extensive setup, and lacks some immediate deployment efficiencies.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: PractiTest delivers a cloud-based solution with flexible deployment and responsive service. Polarion ALM, mainly desktop-based, requires more setup but benefits from extensive documentation and support.

Pricing and ROI: PractiTest is cost-effective with quick ROI, appealing for budget-conscious buyers. Polarion ALM involves a higher initial investment but promises significant long-term ROI through its sophisticated capabilities.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Polarion ALM

Ranking in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites

3rd

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Enterprise Agile Planning Tools (6th)

PractiTest

Ranking in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites

21st

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Test Management Tools (18th)

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2025, in the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites category, the mindshare of Polarion ALM is 7.5%, up from 6.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of PractiTest is 0.8%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Polarion ALM	7.5%
PractiTest	0.8%
Other	91.7%

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Dina Bindi

Information and Communication technology at CNH Industrial

Provides traceability and compliance with high flexibility

It's extremely flexible. Configuring items is straightforward and doesn't require involving the supplier each time. We find the requirement management, test management, documentation, and dashboards very effective. However, we don't use DevOps-related features, such as integration with tools like SVN or Git, because we use Azure DevOps. The aspects related to requirements, testing, changes, tasks, and agile methodology are excellent, which is why we've been using it for a long time.

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Dave Carter

Test Team Lead at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

Flexible and intuitive with easy reporting, and good support that is instantly available through chat

It doesn't allow you to connect to multiple different bug tracking tools at the same time. This is not an issue if you only have one bug tracker but we can potentially use different tools for different projects. As an example, if you connect PractiTest to Jira for one project, that's the one you have to use for all projects. We had a requirement to connect with Jira for one project, and a different tool for another, project but it was unable to accommodate that unfortunately. I would therefore like to see it easier to integrate with bug tracking tools at project level which would give each project the opportunity to use a different bug tracker if required.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The best feature of Polarion ALM to me is its traceability link."

"The solution offers good integration."

"You can see the work ticket and you can circulate that within the teams. You can define your flows, customize according to your needs, and you can create dashboards and create the reports according to your needs."

"The tool's most valuable feature is its browser experience. I rate its traceability feature a ten out of ten. From the initial stage to the release, you can manage everything through a single point."

"Scalability is good...The integration is quite good."

"Polarion ALM has some valuable tools for managing our targets and requirements. I think that's its best feature."

"It offers good performance."

"The tool helped us to more effectively and efficiently gather and structure the information (requirements, test plans, project management data, etc.), and share it with the involved stakeholders in a safe and change-controlled manner."

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"The most valuable feature is the way the libraries are structured so that they were not folder driven."

Cons

"The solution can be improved by making it more user-friendly, and a server-based application rather than client based."

"The weak point of Polarion ALM software is about reporting and time for extraction of the data...The quality of reporting needs to improve."

"Based on my understanding, the tool's integration capabilities with multiple tools is an area of concern that Polarion needs to focus on more."

"The user interface of Polarion ALM needs improvement as it can experience changes that disrupt workflows, especially during major updates."

"I also recently suggested that CMS consider incorporating generative artificial intelligence into the system."

"The tool needs to improve its planning. It also needs to add more integrations."

"Test management lacks an automated process."

"The ease-of-use could be improved a little."

More Polarion ALM cons

"It doesn't allow you to connect to multiple different tracking tools."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"You have to pay around 50-60 euros per user."

"The license model is okay for large companies but would be quite expensive for smaller enterprises."

"Software for medical devices is always expensive."

"It is an expensive product."

"Our license for Polarion ALM is yearly. And it's not the cheapest tool that we've looked at. So if we had made our decision purely based on the licensing cost, we wouldn't have selected Polarion."

"If the pricing would come down and it was more affordable then we wouldn't have to switch."

"The solution is expensive."

"Pricing is probably in the middle, it's not the cheapest but it's not the most expensive."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

28%

Computer Software Company

11%

Healthcare Company

Financial Services Firm

17%

Computer Software Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	9
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	12

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	2
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	1

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Polarion ALM?

It is a very stable solution.

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What needs improvement with Polarion ALM?

The backlog management for Agile in Polarion ALM could be improved or enhanced in future releases. What is missing is that if you have a hierarchy in your backlog with epics, features, and user sto...

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What is your primary use case for Polarion ALM?

We are in our product development using Polarion ALM's functionalities. I am a power user, partly responsible for configuring the tool. We are using it for many things. The idea was to go for a req...

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Overview

The world’s first 100% browser-based ALM enterprise solution, which enables seamless collaboration across disparate teams, multi-directionally linked work items, full traceability, accelerated productivity and automated proof of compliance.

Siemens

Manage your QA and Testing process, controlling your testing tasks while getting complete visibility into your results, and most importantly releasing your products in a professional way

Professional end to end QA management for your manual and automation testing.

Create your manual tests and organize them based on cycles, sprints, etc.
Seamlessly integrate your manual testing with your automation and CI processes.
Reuse tests and correlate results across different releases and products.
Release your products with confidence and control.

PractiTest

Sample Customers

Engineering Ingegneria Informatica, IBS AG, Zumtobel Group

Canonical, SAS, Amobee, Play Buzz, Abbott, Aternity, Zerto, Freeman

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