Continuous Engineering with IBM Rational RELM

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Software and Systems
Engineering | Rational
Continuous Engineering with Rational
Engineering Lifecycle Manager
Giulio Santoli, Client Technical Professional
IBM Software, Rational
26/06/2014

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Agenda
Unlocking Continuous Engineering
Summary
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Demo3
Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager2

Continuous engineering is about game-changing capabilities
Extending the Rational solution for Systems and Software Engineering
• Strategic Reuse
“Don’t reinvent the wheel”
Strategic reuse across the engineering
lifecycle to increase design efficiencies,
engineer product lines, and tame complexity
• Continuous Verification
“Measure twice, cut once”
Verify requirements and design at all stages
of the product lifecycle – to prevent rework and
achieve faster time to quality
• Unlocking Engineering Knowledge
“Turn Insight into Outcomes”
Access, unlock and understand all engineering
information, regardless of source – to enable the
right decisions at the right times
Continuous engineering is an enterprise capability that helps to speed delivery of increasingly
complex and connected products by helping engineers accelerate learning throughout the
lifecycle, while managing cost, quality and risk.

Unlocking Continuous Engineering
IBM Journey to Continuous Engineering
Linked Data
PLE

Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC)
Working to standardize the way software lifecycle tools share data
Open Community – @ open-services.net
Driven by open-standards consortium
Open specifications for numerous disciplines
Including ALM, PLM, and DevOps
Defined by scenarios
Solution oriented
Inspired by the web
Open world assumption – vs. rigid APIs approach
Linked-Data approach
Internet Architecture
HTTP based RESTful protocols
Decouple data from container
Unlock data from silo tools
“Just enough” integration
Consume/Provide the necessary services
Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration
Lifecycle integration inspired by the web

Linked Data Approach to IntegrationPast Approaches to Integration
Import/export workflow
One super DB schema
Always some tool/data “outside”
Semantic loss
Distributed internet architecture using
standard internet technologies
Uses “http” to link to resources
Data is kept in native authoring tools
Scale and incrementally add tools
Linked Data presents a fundamentally new approach
Integration and Collaboration across Engineering Disciplines

Product Versions and Variants
Facing the same Problem on multiple Variants, a sample scenario…
A problem is
found and change
applied
Another important
change in base
program
The PLE solution is addressed by adding capabilities to the platform tools and articulating
best practices – rather than creating a new “PLE tool”

Product Lifecycle Engineering in Rescue
Global Configurations, Streams and Baselines
Variant 5
Variant 4
Variant 3
Variant 2
Initial product Time
Variant 1
= Baseline
= Artifact propagation
A Global Configuration is an hierarchical
composition of multiple component configurations
A Stream is an evolution of a (global) configuration
over time, associated with a set of baselines
Baselines record state in time and are immutable
Streams are reusing common artifacts a use different
version where there is variability
Artifacts can propagate across streams
Product variants are realized as streams
Model v1.1
Engine v1.1
Pump 2.1 Spark v3.1
Gear v2.1
Requirements
Architecture
Test
Requirements
Architecture
Test
Requirements
Architecture
Test
A global configuration
A Stream
A Baseline

Central Design Hub
Enterprise-wide search,
review, analyze, and reuse
Links elements to artifacts
Navigate and visualize
relationships
Handle Model Versions and
Variants
Stakeholder Collaboration
Mark-up diagrams
Discussion thread
Web client
Collaborative Design Management with Design Manager
Enhance cross-team collaboration in systems & software design

Rhapsody Design Manager & Matlab/Simulink
Navigating a Simulink Model in Design Manager

Introducing Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager
Extending the Rational solution for Systems and Software Engineering
• Uses a Linked Data approach that
enables a single source of truth with a
federated architecture to provide
Visibility – across many sources of data
Organization – information in context
Analysis - answer questions using that
contextualized information
• Allows stakeholders to:
• manage growing complexity
• derive knowledge from the available
data
• make timely and correct
engineering and business decisions
Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager
(RELM)

Summary: Visualize, Organize and Analyze with RELM
Provides visibility, impact analysis and document generation across the product lifecycle
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Search & QuerySearch & Query View & NavigationView & Navigation Impact AnalysisImpact Analysis
Search & QuerySearch & Query View & NavigationView & Navigation Indexing of DataIndexing of Data

A safety standard has
changed - which
requirements, tests,
design elements and
implementation artifacts
are impacted?
A component is no
longer available and
needs to be replaced
with an alternative from
another supplier. What
tests need to be re-run?
View Example: Visualizing the Impact of Change

View Example: Visualizing Cost Violations
Show me requirements that
have implementation cost
estimates greater than the
budget
Identify potential
areas for weight
optimization
across the
system

View Example: Suspect Links in the Engineering Lifecycle
I want to know the
test cases that still
need analyzing after
a set of requirement
changes
Things are
changing rapidly.
Help me keep
track!

View Example: Lifecycle Traceability for an ISO26262 Task
Give me the full
traceability of task
through the entire
lifecycle to assess
compliance

View Example: DO-178B/C Compliance
Let me understsad
“where we are” and
give me a
quantitavive
assessment

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PLE Practices – Define Product Variant Workflow

Create Variant task covers Planning stages for a new Product Variant
Based on new Stakeholder requirements, a Product Line Manager creates and plans a new Product Variant
PLE Practices – Create Variant Task

Tool mentors provide concrete guidance down at an application level
PLE Practices – RELM Tool Mentor for Create Variant Task

PLE Practices – Change Management Workflow

PLE Practices – Defect Management Workflow

What’s Next?

Summary
IBM Journey to Continous Engieering
IBM has a clear Strategy to Continuous
Engineering.
Starting with Jazz, supporting OSLC, enabling
Linked Data and then Product Line
Engineering, but the best is yet to come.
Join us in this journey!
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/continuousengineering/index.html

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