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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
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

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