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Eclipse, Xtext, Software Development

Announcement: Xtext 2.14 RC1 is now available

The Xtext team proudly announces the availability of the first release candidate for the upcoming 2.14 release.

by Xtext-Team

5 min. reading time
Eclipse, Xtext, Software Development

Xtend 2.14 – Unnecessary modifiers validation

In the Xtend programming language, visibility modifiers are unnecessary when they match the defaults. The public modifier is default on: Classes Interfaces Enums Annotatitons Constructors Methods The private modifier is default on: Fields

by Tamas Miklossy

3 min. reading time
Agile Software Development, Agile & Usability, Embedded, Scrum

Managing unrealistic expectations in embedded software development

According to a number of different studies somewhere between 30 % and 70 % of embedded software projects are unsuccessful. Success can, of course, be measured in a number of different ways, which is probably where the large range in the statistics comes from. ...

by David Akehurst

4 min. reading time
Agile & Usability, Usability, Design Thinking

What is Design Thinking?

Design Thinking is one of the much-hyped topics that we encounter again and again. But what is behind it? What does "thinking creatively" mean? What do I need to be able to achieve it? Do I have to be a designer? I will try to get to the bottom of such questions, ...

by Sandra Schering

5 min. reading time
Software Development, Automotive

Internship at itemis: Robocar showcase of machine learning

At itemis, we are involved in automotive software projects in terms of modeling (domain specific languages for architecture and behavior), tooling (architecture, feature models, implementation, Machine Learning) and concepts/standards (AUTOSAR, Genivi, openADX). ...

by Andreas Graf

3 min. reading time
Software Development, Language Engineering

The Business DSL: Zurich Insurance

Insurance products are complicated. They involve sophisticated math and lots of interacting rules. They exhibit significant variability between different markets. They change over time, for example, driven by changes in law or updated risk assessments from the ...

by Markus Völter

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

YAKINDU Statechart Tools March release – new and noteworthy

Information: YAKINDU Statechart Tools Is Now itemis CREATE We released YAKINDU Statechart Tools (now itemis CREATE) Standard and Professional Edition version 3.3.0 today! In the last three months, our team closed 126 issues in total. Here are the new and ...

by Andreas Mülder

5 min. reading time
itemis products, Project management

How Visualizing Traceability Data Removes the Worries of Project Management – Part 2

Information: YAKINDU Traceability Is Now itemis ANALYZE A previous post outlined an example project and a set of key metrics (KPIs) that I want to be able to calculate based on information gathered from multiple different development tools. In this follow up post, ...

by David Akehurst

14 min. reading time
Eclipse, Xtext, Software Development

In five minutes to transitive imports within a DSL with Xtext

Xtext allows elements in DSLs to be referenced in several ways. One is to import elements via namespaces. This is done through the use of ImportedNamespaceAwareLocalScopeProvider, and allows the import of individual or, using wildcards (. *), all elements of a ...

by Christian Wehrheim

8 min. reading time
Eclipse, Xtext, Software Development, Language Engineering

Building Domain-specific Languages with Xtext and Xtend

Specifying the requirements of a software system and converting such a specification into executable source code is difficult and error-prone. Requirements specifications written in prose are often ambiguous and hard to understand for developers. Therefore, the ...

by Hendrik Bünder

13 min. reading time

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