Feature Comparison
Which one is right for you?
This is a comparison list to know the differences between functions and features available in codeBeamer ALM. The different moduls are sharing the same database and are tightly integrated, hoverer you can use the product moduls separately as standalone application.
The complete codeBeamer ALM platform consists of Requirements, Software Change & Configuration and the QA-Test modules, detailed below.
codeBeamer Feature Coverage
 Requirements Management |
 Change & Configuration Management |
 QA-Test Management |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Project Management | yes |
yes |
yes |
| Requirements Definition | yes |
- |
- |
| Requirements Management | yes |
- |
- |
| Change & Configuration Management | - |
yes |
- |
| Build Management, CI | yes* |
yes* |
yes* |
| Release & Delivery Management | yes |
yes |
yes |
| QA-Test Management | - |
- |
yes |
| Defect / Task / Issue Management | yes |
yes |
yes |
| Collaboration | yes |
yes |
yes |
| Central Document Management with versioning | yes |
yes |
yes |
| ITIL – CMDB | yes |
yes |
yes |
| ITIL – CMDB, Escalation, SLA Management | yes**
yes**
yes**
| ||
| Web-based, Role-based-access, Reports, Templates, Java / REST-API |
yes |
yes |
yes |
| Pricing | Pricing | Pricing |
Project Management
|
Requirements Management |
Change & Configuration Management |
QA-Test Management |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Project Baselines | yes |
- |
- |
| Task Estimation | - |
yes |
- |
| Work Time Management | yes |
yes |
yes |
| Manage backlog with product, release, project, sprint | - |
yes |
- |
| Hierarchical tasks | - |
yes |
- |
| Agile Burndown + Velocity Charts | - |
yes |
- |
| Prioritization | - |
yes |
- |
| Realtime Analytics | - |
yes |
- |
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Requirements Definition
|
Requirements Management |
Change & Configuration Management |
QA-Test Management |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Requirements with custom Fields, Workflows | yes |
- |
- |
| MS Word-like authoring | yes |
- |
yes |
| Wiki-like authoring | yes |
- |
yes |
| Traceability for Audits | yes |
- |
yes |
| MS-Word/Excel Import/Export | yes |
- |
yes |
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Requirements Management
|
Requirements Management |
Change & Configuration Management |
QA-Test Management |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Requirements Tracking in the whole Lifecycle | yes |
- |
- |
| Requirements Dependence & Relationships | yes |
- |
- |
| Baselining | yes |
- |
- |
| Baseline comparison | yes |
- |
- |
| Traceability Matrix | yes |
- |
- |
| Change impact analysis | yes |
- |
- |
| Coverage analysis | yes |
- |
- |
| Requirements based Test Case generation | yes |
- |
- |
| Electronic Signature | yes |
- |
- |
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Change & Configuration Management
|
Requirements Management |
Change & Configuration Management |
QA-Test Management |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Commit – Bug/Task/Issue linking for Git, Subversion, Mercurial | - |
yes |
- |
| Subversion – Repository Management & Visualization | - |
yes |
- |
| Git – Repository Management & Visualization | - |
yes |
- |
| Git – Integrator Workflows, Server Side Repo Management with Auto-merge | - |
yes |
- |
| Mercurial – Repository Management & Visualization | - |
yes |
- |
| Mercurial – Integrator Workflows, Server Side Repo Management with Auto-merge | - |
yes |
- |
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Build Management, CI
|
Requirements Management |
Change & Configuration Management |
QA-Test Management |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Integration with Ant, Maven, Jenkins / Hudson | yes* |
yes* |
yes* |
| Continous Integration (CI) | yes* |
yes* |
yes* |
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Release & Delivery Management
|
Requirements Management |
Change & Configuration Management |
QA-Test Management |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Product Release | yes |
yes |
yes |
| Project Release | yes |
yes |
yes |
| Multi Project Release | yes |
yes |
yes |
| Resource Statistics | yes |
yes |
yes |
| Release Burn Down Chart | yes |
yes |
yes |
| Release, Requirement, QA-Test integration | yes |
yes |
yes |
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QA-Test Management
|
Requirements Management |
Change & Configuration Management |
QA-Test Management |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| MS Word/Excel Import/Export, CSV Import/Export | yes |
yes |
yes |
| Test Case management | yes |
- |
yes |
| Test Steps | - |
- |
yes |
| Test Sets | - |
- |
yes |
| Test Coverage analysis | - |
- |
yes |
| Test Configurations | - |
- |
yes |
| Test Execution | - |
- |
yes |
| Unit Test integration | - |
- |
yes |
| Requirement, Change and Bug Management Integration | - |
- |
yes |
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Defect / Task / Issue Management
|
Requirements Management |
Change & Configuration Management |
QA-Test Management |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Full featured Tracker with customizable Workflows | yes |
yes |
yes |
| Dependencies, calculated Fields, Aggregation, Distribution | yes |
yes |
yes |
| Mass Edit | yes |
yes |
yes |
| Issue dependency graph visualization | yes |
yes |
yes |
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Wiki & Collaboration
|
Requirements Management |
Change & Configuration Management |
QA-Test Management |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Links between all kinds of artifacts, i.e. wiki, tasks, bugs, … | yes |
yes |
yes |
| Notification Service | yes |
yes |
yes |
| E-mail import, create issues, trigger event | yes |
yes |
yes |
| Wiki based collaboration, publishing workflows | yes |
yes |
yes |
| Voting, Tagging, Activity Streams | yes |
yes |
yes |
| Indexing and full text search in issues, wiki, documents, … | yes |
yes |
yes |
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Central Document Management with versioning
|
Requirements Management |
Change & Configuration Management |
QA-Test Management |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Central Document Management with document versioning | yes |
yes |
yes |
| Document Baselines | yes |
- |
- |
| Document Metadata | yes |
yes |
- |
| Document Full Text Search on MS-Word, RTF, Excel, PPT, PDF, Wiki | yes |
yes |
- |
| Document Workflows | yes |
yes |
- |
| WebDAV Access | yes |
yes |
- |
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ITIL
|
Requirements Management |
Change & Configuration Management |
QA-Test Management |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| CMDB – Configuration Management Database, integrates Release, RM, QA-Test, SCM, Task, Change, Bug Management | yes |
yes |
yes |
| SLA – Service Level Agreement Management, Project Calendar | - |
- |
- |
| Escalation Management | - |
- |
- |
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IT & Scalability
|
Requirements Management |
Change & Configuration Management |
QA-Test Management |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Oracle RDBMS | yes |
yes |
yes |
| MySQL RDBMS | yes |
yes |
yes |
| SSO, LDAP/AD | yes |
yes |
yes |
| The largest installations of the product support 55.000 users on Javaforge.com | yes |
yes |
yes |
| Out-of-box Localization for English/German/Chinese | yes |
yes |
yes |
| Windows/Linux Operating System Support | yes |
yes |
yes |
| Behind the Firewall Installation | yes |
yes |
yes |
| SaaS/Cloud ready | yes |
yes |
yes |
| Free and Documented API | yes |
yes |
yes |
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