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Eclipse, Xtext, Software Development

Xtext 2.15 released!

We are proud to announce Xtext and Xtend 2.15! As you can learn from the release notes (Xtext and Xtend), the focus of this release was on stability, quality and performance. Especially the Xtend Gradle build could be improved significantly and the integration ...

by Xtext-Team

4 min. reading time
Software Development, OpenPGP

OpenPGP On The Job – Part 3: Install And Configure

Install? Configure? Isn't that available as a web app? I am afraid, no! Privacy and security do not come for free. But don't panic: I'm going to show you how to easily setup OpenPGP on Windows. Work once, use indefinitely. Sounds nice? Let's go then.

by Jan Mosig

12 min. reading time
Software Development, OpenPGP

OpenPGP On The Job – Part 2: Before we start

Alright, the first part of the series was about some theoretical basics. But before we start, there are a couple of practical tools and phrases that I'd like you to know and understand, e. g. how to verify downloads? How to use the console? What does all of this ...

by Jan Mosig

13 min. reading time
itemis products, itemis CREATE, Embedded

Taking SCXML to the next level

Information: YAKINDU Statechart Tools Is Now itemis CREATE SCXML is a file format to describe state machines. Although it's widely used, there's a lack of good tool support. If you not only want a graphical editor for your statechart but also SCXML compliant ...

by Andreas Mülder

11 min. reading time
itemis products, Feature of the month, Embedded, Traceability

Support of uniform requirements traceability guidelines with YAKINDU Traceability’s parameterized configurations

Information: YAKINDU Traceability Is Now itemis ANALYZE Wouldn’t it be nice if your systems/software-development process was so matured that you want to re-apply it to future projects? Wouldn’t it be even better if your development tooling was matured in way that ...

by Boris Holzer

5 min. reading time
Software Development

OpenPGP On The Job – Part 1: What is OpenPGP?

Thanks to #efail, email encryption with OpenPGP (and S/MIME) did get quite some attention recently. I do want to take up the opportunity to write a series of round-up articles on OpenPGP usage in my daily work, especially how to set it up and how to use it for ...

by Jan Mosig

7 min. reading time
itemis products, itemis CREATE, State Machine, Embedded

New and noteworthy: YAKINDU Statechart tools august release

Information: YAKINDU Statechart Tools Is Now itemis CREATE 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

11 min. reading time
itemis products, itemis CREATE, State Machine, Embedded

Rolling the dice – part 2: Controlling the state machine externally

Information: YAKINDU Statechart Tools Is Now itemis CREATE In the first part, we have integrated Java functionality into a YAKINDU statechart. In our particular case, it is a Java method that delivers a random value allowing the statechart to behave like a dice. ...

by Rainer Klute

21 min. reading time
Model Viewer, Agile & Usability, Embedded

Interaction workshop: How to navigate the Model Viewer only using the keyboard

By analysing user requirements, we discovered that some users need to operate the Model Viewer by only using the keyboard. Therefore, we decided to create a keyboard-only interaction concept. But how do we find out what the most efficient way to interact is? Where ...

by Frauke Heinecke

7 min. reading time
itemis products, itemis CREATE, Embedded

Rolling the dice – part 1: Calling Java methods from state machines

Information: YAKINDU Statechart Tools Is Now itemis CREATE YAKINDU Statechart Tools (now itemis CREATE) provide a versatile way for modeling and testing finite-state automata. However, what if you want to combine your state machine with some “outside” ...

by Rainer Klute

23 min. reading time

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