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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
itemis products, itemis CREATE, State Machine, Embedded

Formal Verification of Statechart Networks

Information: YAKINDU Statechart Tools Is Now itemis CREATE Imagine you have developed a spacecraft that is super-safe, because following the trends, you have applied model-based design and testing. All components modeled by statecharts, tested, implemented by ...

by Vince Molnár

10 min. reading time
Eclipse, Xtext, Software Development

Xtext editors for binary files

What does "4 + 1" mean? Well, for example itemis employees have been developing a Java bytecode editor with Xtext. This editor allows the contents of .class files to be made visible and editable. In the first part of this article I explained how the JBC editor is ...

by Arne Deutsch

8 min. reading time
Model Viewer, Agile & Usability

How a Usability test meal improves the tool start of Model Viewer

Information: YAKINDU Traceability Is Now itemis ANALYZE The impression a user gets when he uses a tool for the first time is very important for overall customer satisfaction. For that reason, we have been evaluating how the tool start of the Model Viewer could ...

by Sandra Schering

5 min. reading time

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