What’s new in the Polarion Connector for Simulink® ( Version 3.3.0)

We are pleased to announce the new release of the Polarion Connector for Simulink® (Version 3.3.0) providing you exciting new features, improved functionality and squashing pesky bugs! We believe the Polarion Connector for Simulink® connector offers the very best level of integration to the Mathworks® Simulink® family and are thrilled to now offer the following in this new release.

Highlights:

• Import Polarion Collections: Ability to import a set of documents inside a collection including baselines and revisions.
• Zoom In/Out: The embedded Polarion view inside Simulink can now be zoomed in and out offering you more efficient screen real-estate.
• Show Context Diagrams: During backlink processing, we now offer the ability to create a context diagram within the surrogate, which shows the diagram the Simulink model element is part of.

Collection Support

The Polarion connector for Simulink has been enhanced to support working with Collections. You can now import a set of documents within a Collection directly into Simulink. Each document will be imported as a separate ReqSet and the connector will respect the revision or baseline of the document.

You can choose to refresh or re-import the Collection if the configuration changes or if you are working with head documents and the work-item change.

Importing Collections is a breeze, and you can do it either from an enhanced context picker, or simply navigating to the Collection directly within Polarion.

Zoom In/Out

To help management of valuable screen real-estate, we’ve added Zoom in and out buttons on the connector tool bar. Through the Connectors configuration file its possible to set a default zoom level. Note that due to the implementation of this new feature, all action buttons on the control panel are also resized accordingly. Therefore, it may be preferable when working with zoomed out levels (showing a small font) to use the minimalistic tool bar layout.

Context Diagrams

As part of the backlink processing the Connector can now create context diagrams for both basic Simulink model blocks as well as Sub-System blocks. A context diagram, like the name suggests shows the diagram the Simulink block is part of. Context diagrams are created within the corresponding Simulink surrogate work-item. The Simulink block within the context diagram will be colored in so it’s easy to identify.

For Simulink sub-system blocks, both sub-system and context diagrams are created.

Further Improvements

More Granular mapping between Simulink link types and Polarion link roles as well as Simulink element types and Polarion work-item types.

Simulink requirements offers the ability to link model elements to requirements using different link types (confirmed by, derives, implements, refines, related to, verifies, etc) . The Connector has been further enhanced to respect these different Simulink requirements link types. Now during backlink processing the appropriate Polarion link role will be used in the creation of the link between Simulink surrogate work-item and the originally imported work-item and Requirements based on the mapping rules defined in the connector configuration file.

Similarly, as we now support even more Simulink element types and objects that can be linked to imported Polarion Requirements, it made sense to allow for more granular mapping of these items. This is all customizable and defined in the connector configuration file. Out of the box defined mappings include:

Simulink Model Element or Object	Polarion Work-item Type ID
Model Element	simulinkitem
Requirement	simulinkrequirement
Justification	simulinkjustification
Test Case	simulinktestcase
Data Dictionary	simulinkdatadictionary