User`s guide

6 IBM Rational DOORS Surrogate Module Synchronization
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Advantages of Synchronizing Your Model with a Surrogate
Module
Synchronizing your Simulink model with a surrogate module offers the following
advantages:
• You can navigate from a requirement to a Simulink object without modifying the
requirements modules.
• You avoid cluttering your requirements modules with inserted navigation objects.
• The DOORS database contains complete information about requirements links. You
can review requirements links and verify traceability, even if the Simulink software is
not running.
• You can use DOORS reporting features to analyze requirements coverage.
• You can separate the requirements tracking work from the Simulink model
developers' work, as follows:
• Systems engineers can establish requirements links to models without using the
Simulink software.
• Model developers can capture the requirements information using synchronization
and store it with the model.
• You can resynchronize a model with a new surrogate module, updating any model
changes or specifying different synchronization options.