Overview

Embedded systems need traceability tools for several critical reasons—especially in industries like automotive, aerospace, medical devices, and industrial automation—where safety, reliability, and regulatory compliance are essential.

Here’s why traceability matters:

1. Regulatory Compliance:

  • Standards like ISO 26262, DO-178C, IEC 61508, and FDA guidelines require end-to-end traceability.
  • Traceability tools map requirements → design → code → tests → defects, ensuring all elements are accounted for during audits.

2. Safety & Risk Management:

  • Embedded systems often perform life-critical functions (e.g., braking systems, pacemakers). 
  • Traceability ensures hazards are mitigated and all safety requirements are implemented and tested. 

3. Efficient Impact Analysis 

  • When a requirement changes, traceability helps identify all affected code, tests, and documentation. 
  • Saves time and reduces the risk of introducing bugs during modifications. 

4. Improved Collaboration & Accountability 

  • Enables cross-functional teams (hardware, firmware, software) to track responsibilities and understand how their work ties into the system
  • Reduces silos and clarifies ownership

5. Testing & Validation Coverage 

  • Ensures every requirement is covered by at least one test case
  • Helps avoid “orphan” code or untested functionality, which could lead to unpredictable behavior

6. Lifecycle Documentation 

  • Embedded products often have long lifecycles (10+ years).
  • raceability provides a clear development history, aiding maintenance, upgrades, or certification renewals

7. Defect Root-Cause Analysis 

  • Links between bugs and their originating requirements or designs make it easier to diagnose root causes and prevent recurrence. 

Why ProjectOne

ProjectOne ensures end-to-end traceability by managing the embedded systems lifecycle from requirements to development and test results in one environment.

Requirement Management

Share a common understanding of what the project must deliver and provide a baseline for verification and validation activities.

  • Requirement types – Organize, clarify, and manage different kinds of needs across a project or product lifecycle
  • Workflow Customization – Bring structure, consistency, and automation to processes that would otherwise be manual, error-prone, or inefficient
  • BKM’s and Linking – Link safety requirements to design components and activities
  • Baselining and Versioning – Essential for maintaining links between requirements and downstream artifacts like test cases, user stories, and code.
  • Documentation & Content – A dedicated content view specifically for capturing documentation that can be re-used throughout the project.

Test Management

Test management is crucial for traceability because it connects requirements to testing activities, helping ensure that every requirement is validated and verified

  • Test cases - Manage entire library of re-usable test cases categorized by product / sku.
  • Overrides - Have flexible test procedures for test cases that are applicable to multiple products.
  • Instance Grids - Trigger multiple test instances based on a combination of variables specific for a test case.
  • Versioning - Link different versions of test cases to different iterations of requirements, rollback as needed.
  • Test Plans - Design test plans for full or partial coverage of any release
  • Configurations - Add various test configurations and adapt them in real time as your test plans evolve.
  • Test Cycles - Plan groups of test executions that validate a specific version, build, or stage of a product during the testing process.

Development Module

Linking defects to test cases is crucial for traceability because it creates a clear, auditable connection between failures, requirements, and the tests that exposed them. This linkage ensures that the development and QA process is transparent, accountable, and efficient.

Management Module

  • Track changes that are linked to requirements
  • Track tasks at a project level

Traceability Summary Report

Test Coverage Assurance

  • Enables you to track which requirements are covered by tests and identify any gaps.
  • Reduces the risk of untested or partially tested features reaching production.
  • Export trace matrices for audits or safety assessments.

Why Choose ProjectOne for PLM

ProjectOne offers a robust platform that seamlessly adapts ALM principles for Product Lifecycle Management (PLM). It streamlines processes like product requirements, vendor bid requests, BOM management, and engineering change requests, ensuring efficiency and collaboration at every stage.

With automated workflows, customizable templates, and comprehensive requirements management, ProjectOne enhances traceability and ensures product specifications are captured, approved, and finalized with ease. The vendor management and release modules simplify supplier selection, while integrated BOM and test case management ensure compliance and full traceability from design to final verification.

ProjectOne helps businesses reduce errors, accelerate development, and improve decision-making, making it the ideal solution for managing your entire product lifecycle with greater accuracy and speed.

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Session-Based Game Testing

Game testing requires a combination of structured and un-structured testing.   Un-structured tests, often referred to as Session-Based, are critical given the inherent complexity and near infinite possible scenarios and paths within a game.  DevSuite makes it easy to create session based tests with defined areas of focus (characters, worlds, levels, etc…), then assign them to individual testers to log the test and enter the results.  Multiple bugs can then be logged against the same session-based testing task as needed.

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Grid-Based Test Execution

DevSuite provides verification point data grids which have been specifically designed for game development. Using the data grid, testers can execute tests in a format commonly used by game teams and test planners. Game testing managers can easily design new tests by creating new variables like cars and tracks, characters, levels or other common game themes. The verification point data grids even support a check box interface that make test execution even more efficient.

Ideal for Distributed, Remote or Outsourced Teams

Because DevSuite provides real-time data it’s an ideal solution for teams with distributed or outsourced development & testing. With DevSuite’s multi-site architecture, teams around the world can all experience local system performance but with fully synchronized data worldwide. Game development teams that outsource aspects of artwork, sound, or animation can now work within the same interface as the sub-contractors, wherever they may be located, sharing data in real time. QA testing teams that are geographically distributed or use partner companies for specialized testing can view updated task lists and test results in real time as the testing is being completed. And finally, DevSuite’s roll-based security allows you to limit what data is visible to your outsourced contractors so that they can work side by side with your core team, but still keep key data confidential.

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On-Demand Reporting and Visibility

DevSuite provides real-time planning dashboards and reporting so that you always know that status of your game development projects. The planning view dashboards allow planners to see the status of their projects, teams and environments in real-time. DevSuite also features dynamic reports that can be viewed in the clients or can be delivered via email providing all stake holders with up-to-the-minute data.

Integration Via Restful API

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