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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
itemis products, itemis CREATE, State Machine, Embedded

YAKINDU Statechart Tools and HYPED meet Hyperloop

Information: YAKINDU Statechart Tools Is Now itemis CREATE Hyperloop is Elon Musk’s (CEO of Tesla and SpaceX) concept for the future of mass transportation. It offers a new means of transporting people and goods quickly, safely, efficiently, and with minimised ...

by Team HYPED

4 min. reading time
Eclipse, Xtext, Language Engineering

What's new in Xtext and Xtend 2.14: The journey of Tina Toolsmith

Tina Toolsmith is one of those typical developers. She loves to code in the office, on the train, during a long flight or even while sitting on her sunny terrace during her vacation. Tina takes great pleasure in using the latest programming languages, frameworks, ...

by Hendrik Bünder

11 min. reading time
Model Viewer, Embedded

Introducing Model Viewer 1.3.6

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

5 min. reading time
Agile Software Development, Agile & Usability

What are (good) user stories?

In an earlier blog post I described how I apply user story mapping in release planning. In this post I want to go back to the beginning, or at least far enough back to explain what I think makes a good user story. But let’s start at the beginning – what is a user ...

by Katharina Lattenkamp

6 min. reading time
Eclipse, Xtext, Software Development

4+1 = CAFEBABE: Java Bytecode in Eclipse

What might itemis staff do on their project-free 4 + 1 day? They continue their education, often by working on their own ideas; I would like to introduce just such a project today. The goal was to build familiarity with Xtext and Xtend. The result is a Java Byte ...

by Arne Deutsch

6 min. reading time
Eclipse, Xtext, GEF, Software Development

Pro Tip: Implementing JUnit Test Cases in Xtend

What makes a clean test? Three things. Readability, readability, and readability. Readability is perhaps even more important in unit tests than it is in production code. What makes tests readable? The same thing that makes all code readable: clarity, simplicity, ...

by Tamas Miklossy

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

How to create robust system models with YAKINDU Statechart Tools and verification tools

Information: YAKINDU Statechart Tools Is Now itemis CREATE With statecharts, we can model behavioral systems like machines, robots, mobile apps and more. For safety critical applications it is necessary that they are failure safe. We need to ensure this with ...

by Svenja Wendler

7 min. reading time
itemis products, Feature of the month, Agile & Usability

How to create traceability links quickly with YAKINDU Traceability’s bulk link creation editor

Information: YAKINDU Traceability Is Now itemis ANALYZE A prominent task of YAKINDU Traceability (now itemis ANALYZE) for sure is to create traceability links. It already provides different means to do so. However, based on our users’ feedback, we got the ...

by Sandra Schering

7 min. reading time

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