Simulink Requirements
Author, manage, and trace requirements to models, generated code, and test cases
Simulink Requirements™ lets you author, analyze, and manage requirements within Simulink®. You can create rich text requirements with custom attributes and link them to designs, code, and tests. Requirements can be imported from external sources, and you can receive automatic notification when requirements change. You can view the requirements and design together, establish links with drag and drop, annotate diagrams with requirements content, analyze requirements traceability, and navigate between requirements, designs, generated code, and tests.
Simulink Requirements indicates when changes occur to linked requirements, designs, or tests. It calculates the implementation and verification status of your requirements, enabling you to assess project completeness. Support for industry standards is available through IEC Certification Kit (for ISO 26262 and IEC 61508) and DO Qualification Kit (for DO-178).
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Capture requirements in Simulink
Requirements and their rationales can be described with rich text including images, numbered lists, and bullets. Additional attributes such as ID, keywords, revision information, and comments enable you to refine and detail your requirements. Custom attributes let you extend requirements with your unique requirement data types.
Requirements Editor for creating, editing, and organizing your requirements.
Manage all your requirements across multiple models
The Requirements Editor enables you to view, create, and manage all your requirements across multiple models. It includes:
- Requirements browser to organize hierarchies of requirements
- Links view to manage links across the project
- Property Inspector to view and edit details of requirements and links
- Customizations to configure column display and sorting
- Search tool to filter large sets of requirements
- Report generation to document requirements
Integrated view of requirements, architecture and design
The Requirements Perspective provides an integrated view within Simulink, System Composer or Stateflow® where you can view, author, and organize requirements while also performing your design activities.
Requirements Perspective, for managing requirements within your Simulink development environment.
Model-Based Systems Engineering Support
Associate architecture model elements in System Composer with requirements, assess completeness of architecture and derive additional requirements
Establish Traceability with Drag and Drop
You can create links between requirements and your design by dragging a requirement from the requirements browser and dropping it on Simulink or Stateflow model objects. A badge appears on the model object to indicate a link and enables navigation to the linked requirement. You can choose to display the requirement and its connector on the model diagram from the badge.
Requirements from other sources, such as IBM Rational DOORS, Microsoft Word or Microsoft Excel, can be imported as read-only references or for further modification within Simulink. You can use the Requirements Interchange Format (ReqIF) to import and work with requirements from third-party tools supporting that format. During import you can control the mapping of fields from the external document into Simulink Requirements. You can specify to import fields mapped to custom attributes to match the content in the external document. A synchronize operation maintains consistency with the referenced requirements. If a requirement change occurs, notification is given to let you assess the impact of the change.
Identify and Respond to Changes
When a requirement changes, it is important that it be communicated across the team to avoid downstream errors. Each requirement and link maintains revision history of when it was modified. Simulink Requirements detects changes in requirements linked to models, including those imported from external sources, enabling you to assess the impact of the change on your designs and take appropriate action. You can perform a differencing operation on a requirement set to view changes in requirements.
Change detection to alert you when requirements imported from external documents are changed.
Requirements traceability with other tools in the development lifecycle is provided, including code generation and testing tools for bidirectional navigation from requirements, design, implementation, and test. You can link requirements and test cases, test suites, and test sequences in Simulink Test™, and access links from the Simulink model or the Test Manager. Code generated from Embedded Coder®, HDL Coder™, or Simulink PLC Coder™ can be hyperlinked from the code generation report to the requirements. These links are presented as comment labels in the code. The hyperlinks in the code generation report provide direct navigation from code to requirements.
You can link and trace Simulink model elements to requirements in IBM® Rational® DOORS® or IBM® Rational® DOORS® Next Generation.
With DO Qualification Kit (for DO-178) and IEC Certification Kit (for ISO 26262 and IEC 61508), you can generate a traceability matrix spreadsheet showing requirements-to-model-to-code bidirectional traceability paths and file information.
Traceability between requirements, Simulink and Stateflow objects, and test artifacts across the development lifecycle for impact analysis and documentation.
View Implementation and Verification Status
Simulink Requirements provides implementation and verification status of requirements within Simulink to identify gaps in implementation, missing requirements, or errors in the design. Implementation and verification metrics quantify the proportion of requirements that have been implemented in the design and associated with test cases, as well as the proportion of test cases that have passed.
These traceability and verification metrics quantify the completeness of your development activities in Model-Based Design. The status metrics are displayed as a column in the requirements browser with colors indicating status. A requirement with child requirements is not completely implemented or verified until all its child requirements are implemented or verified. Hovering over the status displays cumulative metrics for the requirements and its child requirements. If there are missing links in the status, it indicates where the implementation or verification needs to be completed.
Justifications can be linked to requirements that are not implemented or verified in the model. For example, a nonfunctional requirement can be linked to a justification to filter it from the status. A common set of justifications can be shared and reused within the model.
Viewing status of implementation and verification status to gain insight into project status.
Generate Requirement Reports
When a requirement changes, it is important that it be communicated across the team to avoid downstream errors. Each requirement and link maintains revision history of when it was modified. Simulink Requirements detects changes in requirements linked to models, including those imported from external sources, enabling you to assess the impact of the change on your designs and take appropriate action. You can perform a differencing operation on a requirement set to view changes in requirements.
Traceability Matrix
Review and analyze links between requirements, design or test in a matrix format
External Verification Results
Include results from external sources in verification status
IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation Integration
View and sync requirements from DOORS Next Generation
System Composer Integration
Support for linking with ports
Multiple Requirements and Links Selection
Batch deletion and link creation using editor multi-selection
Programmatic Interface Enhancements
Use new methods for creating, finding and navigating links
See release notes for details on any of these features and corresponding functions.
