The Polarion development team has announced the first public release of FastTrack, a version control based Issue/Task/Requirement tracking tool deeply integrated into the Eclipse IDE. It is built on top of the Subversive project (Eclipse client for Subversion).

According to Polarion, FastTrack provides project work planning and tracking deeply integrated into the Eclipse IDE and its concepts. No server setup or administration is involved. A Subversion repository is used as a standard platform for sharing data between team members. Both teams and individual developers can benefit from this unified approach where work items are represented by XML files and stored in the versioning repository together with all other artifacts, the company says.

Main features of FastTrack include:

• Work Item (Task, Issue, Change request, Defect, Idea, Requirement, ...) tracking and planning
  
• Customizable Work Item types
  
• Linking of Work Items with each other to create relationships such as dependency, etc.
  
• Linking of Work Items with other Eclipse managed artifacts in workspace
  
• Linking repository revisions to Work Items (traceability)
  
• Searching Work Items using standard Eclipse search facility
  
• History of Work Items
  
• Comparing different historical revisions of a Work Item
  
• Shared and private predefined queries supporting the development process
  
• Advanced Commit dialog supporting Commit Policies. The innovative commit dialog strongly supports common developer tasks like linking commits to Work Items, optionally tracking spent time etc. Pre-commit policy checking of the code being committed follows defined guidelines, e.g. the code should be compilable.
  
• Ability to operate as Polarion client providing offline capability for distributed requirement and change request management License. FastTrack is available for free and is not open sourced.

FastTrack 0.9 requires JDK 1.4 or JDK 1.5 and Eclipse 3.1.x to run.