We enable users to identify and link external artifacts in MATLAB® and maintain consistent traceability over time.
The Connector
Traceability begins with connection
The ReQonsult MATLAB® Connector connects MATLAB® with ALM/PLM systems and creates bidirectional traceability. This allows requirements, tests, and changes to be linked efficiently. This saves time, reduces manual work, and makes it easier for teams to collaborate in the development process.
The Connector also supports compliance with regulatory standards and certifications: it seamlessly integrates external systems, makes changes traceable, and promotes structured working—ideal for industries with high compliance requirements.
Anwendungen
Master complexity with the ReQonsult MATLAB® Connector: Increase your security and efficiency, ensure compliance, automate traceability, and create seamless connections to ALM/PLM systems.
Nachweise fehlen verstreut
Audit naht: Anforderungen, Modelle und Tests sind verteilt. Der Connector bündelt alle Verknüpfungen – volle Nachvollziehbarkeit ohne Last-Minute-Doku.
Anforderungen ändern sich spät
Kurz vor dem Meilenstein ändert sich eine kritische Anforderung. Der Connector macht betroffene Modelle, Tests und Funktionen sofort sichtbar.
Projektüberblick geht verloren
Engineering nutzt MATLAB®, Management das ALM-System. Der Connector schlägt die Brücke: Überblick über Umsetzung und Tests ohne Workflow-Brüche.
Fehlende Tests bleiben unentdeckt
Tests sind da, doch die Abdeckung bleibt vage. Der Connector verbindet Anforderungen mit Tests und Ergebnissen für eine sichere Abnahme.
Mehrere Tools, mehrere Teams
Requirements in Jira, Modelle in Simulink, Tests woanders – unser MATLAB® Connector schafft Traceability mit konsistenten Daten für alle.
Change Requests verunsichern
Nach Change Requests bleibt oft unklar, ob alles angepasst ist. Der Connector zeigt Inkonsistenzen und Änderungen werden systematisch geprüft.
Entwickler-Onboarding kostet Zeit
Neue Teammitglieder verlieren Zeit, weil Zusammenhänge fehlen. Der Connector zeigt im Modell alle Anforderungen, Funktionen und Tests.
Nachweise reproduzierbar machen
Zertifizierungen erfordern Langfristigkeit und Nachvollziehbarkeit. Der Connector hält Tests, Anforderungen und Implementierung verknüpft.
Skalierung vom Prototyp zur Serie
Vom Prototyp zur Serie wächst die Komplexität. Der Connector skaliert mit und hält Anforderungen, Varianten und Tests transparent und beherrschbar.
Benefits
Master complexity with the ReQonsult MATLAB® Connector: Increase your security and efficiency, ensure compliance, automate traceability, and create seamless connections to ALM/PLM systems.
Efficiency through usability
Compliance and auditability
End-to-end traceability is enabled, which is required for regulatory standards, audits, and certifications.
Cross-system work
Teams can work in their usual tools and still track requirements, tests, and changes across systems.
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Highlights
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Schnittstellen
The Connector intelligently links external ALM and PLM systems, creating a central, end-to-end integration that combines data flows, ensures traceability, and improves collaboration across teams.
Jira®
The Connector connects MATLAB® to Jira® to link issues, epics, and stories, ensure traceability, and synchronize changes.
GitHub®
MATLAB® integrates with GitHub®, linking to Issues to manage and track Changes and Defects throughout development.
Trello®
MATLAB® is connected to Trello®, Simulink® elements are linked to cards and lists, and agile workflows are supported through tracking.
easeRequirements®
MATLAB® is connected to easeRequirements® (previously Requirements for Jira® / R4J) and Simulink® artifacts are linked to Jira® requirements.
DevRhythm®
Access and manage ALM artifacts directly in Simulink without additional tools, enabling bi-directional traceability throughout development.
On request
The Connector is flexibly expandable. Upon request, we will be happy to check whether your desired tool can be integrated if it is not yet supported.
Durchstarten
Entfesseln Sie das volle Potenzial Ihrer Produktentwicklung – Effizienz, Qualität, Innovation – mit bewährten Benefits. Stärken Sie mit uns das Vertrauen Ihrer Stakeholder während Sie Risiken und Kosten minimieren.
Downloads
Download our ReQonsult MATLAB® Connector product data sheet and discover how seamless traceability between MATLAB® and ALM/PLM systems enables you to work efficiently and in compliance with audits.
Andere Lösungen
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Informiert bleiben
Bleiben Sie über die neuesten Entwicklungen vom ReQonsult MATLAB® Connector informiert und erhalten Sie exklusive Einblicke in neue Funktionen, Releases und technische Innovationen der ALM- und PLM-Integration.
Warum ReQonsult?
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FAQ
Detailed answers to frequently asked questions about the ReQonsult MATLAB® Connector. Learn how to use the Connector to optimize traceability, simplify processes, and make development projects more efficient.
What is the ReQonsult MATLAB® Connector?
The ReQonsult MATLAB® Connector is a powerful tool that enables seamless traceability between MATLAB®/Simulink® and ALM or PLM systems. It simplifies the verification of requirements implementation, tracking of tests and changes, thereby supporting compliance, efficiency, and quality in regulated development processes.
How does the Connector support standards compliance?
The ReQonsult MATLAB® Connector enables traceability between ALM/PLM Artifacts, like Requirements, User Stories, Implementation Tasks, Tests, Defects and others with Engineering Artifacts in MATLAB®, like Simulink® blocks, System Composer Components or Ports, Data Dictionary Entries, Source Code, etc.
What types of artifacts are linked?
The ReQonsult MATLAB® Connector allows you to link a wide range of MATLAB® artifacts, for example Simulink® model blocks, test cases, data dictionary elements, and source code, with external objects in ALM or PLM systems. This creates end-to-end traceability between requirements, tests, defects, and implementation.
How do imported requirements differ from remote linking?
Imported requirements are fully integrated into MATLAB® and enable offline work, context view, and change tracking. Remote linking only creates references to external ALM or PLM objects without local import, which keeps administration lean but with less direct information and no change notifications.
What are the advantages of using surrogates?
With use of Surrogates option, linked MATLAB® Artifacts will be created as “proxy” items in corresponding ALM/PLM. For example, when user connects a System Composer Port with a Requirement in Jira®, an extra Issue will be created in Jira® and linked to the Requirement. Thus the target Requirement won’t be touched, and could be even read-only. The surrogate will contain all the information from MATLAB®, picture of the context, and the link back to MATLAB®. In case of using option without Surrogates, the target Requirement will be extended with a link to MATLAB®, thus user of Jira® can navigate directly to MATLAB® to inspect connected object. Administrator of Jira® can set, which issue type will be used for the Surrogate, as well as what kind of link to be used between Surrogates and Requirements for facilitating semantic traceability.
How does bidirectional traceability work with the Connector?
The links from to ALM/PLM will be persisted on the MATLAB® side, using the infrastructure of the Requirements Toolbox. In case of the Connector, it includes the URL of the target container and the ID of the concrete item within this container. For example, URL of a project and the item within the project. On the ALM/PLM side, corresponding links will use the RMI notation of the link to MATLAB® – can see the URL, which MATLAB® offers for the artifacts by right-click on the block, then “Requirements → Copy URL to Clipboard” (note, in different contexts, the menu may look like “Requirements at This Level”).
Which ALM/PLM systems are currently supported?
The ReQonsult MATLAB® Connector currently supports systems such as Jira®, easeRequirements® for Jira (formerly known as R4J), GitHub®, Trello®, and DevRhythm®. Thanks to its open architecture, it can be flexibly connected to other ALM or PLM systems with remote APIs. This allows organizations to integrate their existing tools and easily incorporate traceability into their development processes.
What limitations apply to Jira®?
The following restrictions must be observed, regardless of whether easeRequirements® is used or not:
Links to MATLAB® artifacts:
If no surrogates are used, MATLAB® links are stored directly in the description of the respective Issue, and not in URL Field, which is used for Surrogates, or in generic Remote Links. This is caused by limitations of Jira itself, where URL Fields do not support multiple values, and Remote Links are not searchable.
Editing the issue description:
Jira® uses the complex Atlassian Document Format (ADF), which is only available as a JSON variant via the REST API. This makes automatic adaptation of the description technically challenging. Therefore, the use of surrogate issues is recommended for integration.
Required Jira® administration:
The setup of surrogate issue types, user-defined fields, and link types cannot be performed by regular users. This configuration must be done in advance by Jira® administrators so that the connector can be used effectively.
What limitations apply to GitHub®?
The following limitations apply to the use of GitHub® with the connector:
No support for surrogates:
Due to the specific workflow for issues in GitHub®, the connector does not support the creation of surrogate issues there.
Focus on bug fixing scenarios:
The intended use cases focus on supporting bug fixing processes reported via GitHub®, while ensuring direct traceability to the implementation artifacts in MATLAB®.
Are there any restrictions for Trello®?
When using Trello® in conjunction with the connector, the following restrictions apply:
No support for surrogates:
No additional Trello® cards are created to represent MATLAB® artifacts, as this is not desired. Instead, links are added directly to the description of existing Trello® cards and updated accordingly when changes are made.
Display of card IDs:
Trello® uses long internal identifiers (IDs) for cards, which are normally invisible to end users (visible only in the URLs in the browser). In MATLAB®, however, these IDs are displayed as the target of the trace link in certain views. Since MATLAB® currently does not offer a way to customize the display of these links and additional queries to Trello® could affect performance, this display remains in place for technical reasons.
Displaying the link description:
Instead of using call-outs to interrogate linked objects directly on diagrams, MATLAB® provides access to additional information via the context menu of the corresponding block under “Requirements >”. The description of the link is displayed there, for example, the title of the linked object.
Are there advantages for offline or distributed work?
Teams benefit offline from the ability to import requirements locally as ReqSets. This allows them to work without an active connection to the ALM or PLM system while still viewing and maintaining all relevant information. These ReqSets can be easily shared with colleagues, which facilitates collaboration in distributed projects.
How easy is it to install and set up the Connector?
The Connector adds a Toolstrip “ReQonsult” to corresponding model views, as well as registers callbacks for the MATLAB® Requirements Toolbox, thus adding functionality of the Connector to the features, offered by MATLAB® out-of-the-box.
How are connector configurations shared within the team?
The Connector provides a comprehensive user interface for configuring connections and settings for each system. However, due to traceability requirements and for security and authorization reasons, each connection to the server is unique—users typically need a personal authentication token or user login credentials to gain access. Therefore, each user should configure the servers individually, while the settings for each system can be shared across the team. Copy the “preferences.json” file from the Connector’s installation folder on one computer to the Connector’s installation folder on another computer. Use the “Reset All Caches” option in the “Settings” dialog box if you change the file after the connector has already been initialized.
How does uninstalling and cleaning up the connector work?
To uninstall the Connector from MATLAB®, simply uninstall the corresponding add-in. No uninstallation is necessary in the ALM/PLM systems, as no additional components were installed.
The following steps can be considered for data cleansing:
• Remove all links from the MATLAB® artifacts to the ALM/PLM objects.
• Remove all ReqSets with imported ALM/PLM artifacts.
• Delete all surrogate elements from your ALM or PLM system, or delete the links from the original artifacts to MATLAB® if you prefer the non-surrogate option. The easiest way to find all MATLAB® links is to search for the pattern “http://127.0.0.1:31415/matlab/”.
• Remove the configuration of the corresponding work item type and link type in your ALM or PLM system if they are no longer needed.
How does the Connector meet current security requirements?
The Connector is continuously being developed to ensure the highest security standards. This includes regular updates to prevent known vulnerabilities and meet current legal requirements. In particular, compliance with the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is taken into account, so that customers can rest assured that the Connector can not only be operated securely today, but is also prepared for future regulatory requirements. This ensures that data protection and the integrity of integrations are always guaranteed.
What future enhancements are planned for the Connector?
Several important enhancements are planned for the Connector to further expand its performance and flexibility. Optional AI-supported functions are available, including an intelligent setup wizard supported by AI models such as ChatGPT® or Claude® to simplify configuration with ALM/PLM systems. An AI-based PDF import is also planned to make it easier to transfer content (one-way, without bidirectional traceability). In addition, seamless integration with CI/CD pipelines is planned so that traceability updates can be automatically integrated into development workflows. Finally, the possibility of allowing user-defined scripts and functions to customize the connector to individual needs is also being considered.
Traceability
Traceability brings strategic advantages: it creates transparency, reduces complexity, ensures regulatory compliance, facilitates audits, and enables better products to be developed and delivered more quickly.
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Seamless traceability
Ensure traceability from MATLAB® to ALM/PLM requirements and increase your compliance with complete and consistent coverage.
Flexible architecture
Benefit from the flexible architecture that precisely connects MATLAB® with ALM/PLM systems and supports individual processes.
User-friendliness
Experience user-friendly MATLAB® integration with ALM/PLM systems for clear traceability and workflows without additional effort.
Universal integration
The ReQonsult Connector directly connects MATLAB® or Simulink® to various ALM and PLM systems, creating universal traceability.
Offline traceability
Requirements are imported into MATLAB® so teams can work offline, see changes easily, and have all relevant context data readily available.
Surrogate objects
Our Connector creates surrogates for MATLAB® artifacts, enabling immediate traceability reports and impact analysis in target systems.
Functions
The connector’s features are designed to make your development easier: with smarter workflows, less effort, and more focus on innovation. This lets you easily connect MATLAB® to ALM or PLM systems.
Integration and configuration
Provided as a MATLAB® toolbox, remote system support, and flexible adaptation to various ALM/PLM platforms.
Traceability
Import, direct linking, and bidirectional traceability between artifacts and objects with optional surrogate creation.
Automation and maintenance
Automatic synchronization and cleanup of links. Planned: test management support and integration into CI/CD workflows.
That’s it
The ReQonsult MATLAB® Connector connects MATLAB® with ALM and PLM systems to ensure efficiency, quality, and compliance.
Benefits
Work faster, make fewer mistakes, enjoy full traceability – the Connector leads to secure, auditable development processes.
Use case
An automotive manufacturer uses the ReQonsult MATLAB® Connector to connect engineering artifacts directly to ALM and PLM systems.
