Thomas Kutz

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Thomas Kutz works as a software engineer at itemis in Lünen. Holding a master's degree in computer science and artificial intelligence, his main interest is in developing tools that make software development more efficient and enjoyable.

YAKINDU, Statecharts, Embedded, State Machine, english, Software Development

Deep Java integration for YAKINDU state machines

Did you ever want to use a state machine in your Java code? Usually you would implement some switch-case statements over an enumeration or the more object-oriented state pattern. For larger state machines, this approach quickly gets hard to read and maintain. ...

by Thomas Kutz

Feb 7, 2019

8 min. reading time
YAKINDU, Statecharts, english, Software Development

Statechart modeling for Java development

In this blog post I want to give you a short teaser for an upcoming feature of YAKINDU Statechart Tools: The deep Java integration. This extension allows you to directly access Java APIs in your statechart and it hence simplifies an incorporation of state machine ...

by Thomas Kutz

Dec 17, 2018

2 min. reading time
YAKINDU, Statecharts, Embedded, State Machine, english

Searching in state machines with YAKINDU Statechart Tools

The larger the state machine, the greater the need to quickly search for elements – for example, to find a certain state or to find all occurrences of a certain variable or event. YAKINDU Statechart Tools provides this functionality and this blog post shows how to ...

by Thomas Kutz

Oct 11, 2018

4 min. reading time
YAKINDU, Statecharts, Embedded, State Machine, english

New and noteworthy: YAKINDU Statechart tools august release

Today we released YAKINDU Statechart Tools Standard and Professional Edition in version 3.4.0. Among several bug fixes, the 3.4.0 release comes with a pile of new cool features:

by Thomas Kutz

Aug 20, 2018

10 min. reading time
YAKINDU, Embedded, english, Model Viewer

Introducing YAKINDU Model Viewer 1.3.6

YAKINDU Model Viewer is now released in version 1.3.6. In the last two months we worked on better visualizations of certain block types and fixed an armada of bugs as you can see below.

by Thomas Kutz

Jun 25, 2018

5 min. reading time
Eclipse, Embedded, IoT

Eclipse Mita – Bringing software development for the IoT to a higher level

Software development for embedded IoT systems is not an easy task. In most cases, you’ll have to write C or C++ code; both coming with a higher learning curve than modern programming languages like Go and Rust. And in most cases, you’ll have to write a fair amount ...

by Thomas Kutz

May 11, 2018

5 min. reading time
YAKINDU, Embedded, english, Model Viewer

Advanced signal highlighting in Simulink models

When working with Simulink block diagrams, one major use case is to trace signals. Understanding how signal data are processed from inputs to outputs is especially useful when debugging your model. Since signal flows are easily scattered across various subsystems ...

by Thomas Kutz

Jan 23, 2018

5 min. reading time
Eclipse, YAKINDU, Statecharts, Embedded, State Machine

Refactor your state machine with YAKINDU Statechart Tools

You may know code refactorings from your favorite IDE; they help restructuring your code in order to keep it clean and readable. Similarly, YAKINDU Statechart Tools provide refactorings for your state machine. With these refactorings you can easily group states ...

by Thomas Kutz

Aug 11, 2016

5 min. reading time
YAKINDU, Statecharts, Embedded, english

Statechart Tools 2.7.0 - New and noteworthy

Today we released version 2.7.0 of YAKINDU Statechart Tools! The product bundle of SCT is now shipped with Eclipse Neon as underlying platform which comes with several improvements as compared to the Mars release. However, SCT does not require Neon to be ...

by Thomas Kutz

Jul 20, 2016

4 min. reading time
YAKINDU, Statecharts, Embedded

Accelerating State Machine Debugging using Simulation Snapshots

Testing complex state machines can be cumbersome as many steps need to be repetitively performed until a state of interest is reached. To overcome this, the YAKINDU Statechart Tools Professional Edition provides a new feature called Simulation Snapshots which ...

by Thomas Kutz

Jun 20, 2016

3 min. reading time

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Deep Java integration for YAKINDU state machines

Statechart modeling for Java development

Searching in state machines with YAKINDU Statechart Tools

New and noteworthy: YAKINDU Statechart tools august release

Introducing YAKINDU Model Viewer 1.3.6

Eclipse Mita – Bringing software development for the IoT to a higher level

Advanced signal highlighting in Simulink models

Refactor your state machine with YAKINDU Statechart Tools

Statechart Tools 2.7.0 - New and noteworthy

Accelerating State Machine Debugging using Simulation Snapshots