The new Polarion Connector for Simulink® allows for a much-improved user experience over earlier versions of the connector. For the first time, Polarion itself has been directly embedded into the Simulink desktop client to support a larger set of customer use cases and reduce inconvenient App context switching.
Working with the Simulink Requirements Toolbox
Also, another first for the new connector is that it will work with the Simulink Requirements Toolbox. Users can then use the popular drag-and-drop approach to create traceability between requirements and model elements. Then, depending on the connector settings, surrogate Simulink items can be created in Polarion for any linked model elements. These surrogate Simulink items are rich in information too with block parameter data and where applicable model diagrams. The integration automatically links the surrogate Simulink items back to the original Polarion Requirements as well.
As with earlier connector releases you can navigate from Simulink model elements to its associated Polarion Work Item and vice versa.
Extending the supported use cases even further, users can work with Polarion Live Documents directly or across the entire Polarion project scope. When working with Polarion LiveDocs documents it is possible to work with document baselines or earlier revisions.
We also simplified setting up the connector to work with multiple Polarion servers or multiple projects within each server. A Polarion project can also work with multiple Simulink models at once.
The Medsoto Advanced PDF Exporter allows the export of LiveDocs, Test Runs, Classic Wiki Pages, Info Pages, and LiveReport Pages from within Polarion.
PDF/A (1b) compliant
Export your PDF files in the ISO-standardized PDF/A format. This format is specialized for archiving and long-term preservation of documents.
Automatic Export
LiveDocs can be exported automatically from within their workflow (e.g. when they are released) and saved in the Polarion repository. Your released document versions will be permanently protected from any changes to Polarion without additional work for the users.
Multi-Export
It is possible to export one or multiple PDF files simultaneously. Save your custom selection for a complete export of development artifacts at your chosen time.
Custom Watermarks
Add custom text watermarks to your PDF document of any format and orientation. Add the watermark on LiveDocs and Test Run exports depending on their status. The watermark embeds your chosen text in the PDF file in the top layer in a dynamically calculated position.
For more information, contact us at: info@medsoto.de.
Backward compatibility with older releases of the connector
To maintain backward compatibility with earlier connector releases, the new connector also supports publishing and direct linking to existing Polarion Work Items and Requirements. This mode can work with or without surrogates Simulink items as well.
Additionally, we have added the ability to link Simulink blocks to a newly created Work Item on the fly. This means you can take advantage of Polarion’s powerful task and Defect/Issue management capabilities to create, for example, Defect/Issue Work Items against your model and link those Work Items to specific model elements.
Working with Simulink Test
You can author Test Case specifications inside Polarion and import these into Simulink Test. We support both document revisions and baselines as well as branched documents. We’ve made things flexible for you should you author Test Cases in the same document as your Requirements, or maybe you separate your Test Cases into individual documents. All these scenarios are supported.
If you don’t work with documents at all, perhaps adopting a more agile process, we cover this use case as well, where you can build queries of Test Case Work Items to be imported to Simulink Test.
If you author your Test Cases directly in Simulink Test, that’s not an issue either but you can take advantage of the connector's new Simulink Test support. The connector will create surrogate Test Cases in Polarion for any Simulink Test Cases that are linked to the original Polarion Requirements. The Surrogate Test Case will be linked to the original Polarion Requirements which will allow you to create detailed coverage reports inside of Polarion.
The connector allows you to execute Simulink Tests, collect results, and publish these back to Polarion in the form of a Test Run and Test Record. This can all be done directly from the connector control panel.
If you choose to execute your tests directly inside of Simulink Test, that’s not a problem either as you can quickly collect the Test execution results and publish those back to Polarion.
If the Simulink Test Case fails, Polarion will automatically create a Defect Work Item for you.
With adding support for Simulink Test, we can leverage Polarion's powerful Quality Management capabilities. Polarion becomes a one-stop place for all your Test Management and Test evidence of your Simulink models.
The new connector works with Simulink Family 2021b, including Simulink, Stateflow, and System Composer. It requires Simulink Requirements Toolbox and optionally Simulink Test.
