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UML as a Standard: Where the Promise fails

The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is well established as a modeling language in many domains. One strong argument for the use of UML is the fact, that it has been standardized by the Object Management Group (OMG). Since a model-driven approach with UML mainly ...

by Andreas Graf

5 min. reading time
itemis products, itemis CREATE, State Machine, itemis Labs, Embedded

Python code generation with YAKINDU Statechart Tools

Information: YAKINDU Statechart Tools Is Now itemis CREATE Maybe you read about the TypeScript code generator here before? Well, let’s talk about a real scripting language that you might have missed in our YAKINDU Statechart Tools code generation options: Python. ...

by Norbert Lang

13 min. reading time
itemis products, itemis CREATE, State Machine, itemis Labs, Embedded

Interactive 3D Visualization and Simulation with State Machines

The simulation of behavior models, for instance using YAKINDU Statechart Tools, is an important feature for evolutionary, model-based software development. Imagine that you can see the simulation of the behavior model side-by-side with the behavior of the system ...

by Benjamin Bolte

20 min. reading time
Automotive, Software Development

Search in and Navigate through AUTOSAR Models

In the previous post "How to configure your free AUTOSAR model viewer" I showed how to use the ARTOP project and Eclipse to configure an Eclipse RCP which can be used to view AUTOSAR model at no cost. In this post, I will add information about the default search ...

by Andreas Graf

3 min. reading time
Smart Technologies, Software Development

How secure is my app?

When it comes to more than a small marketing app, the topic of “security” is often raised and sometimes silently dropped. On the surface it is quite complex and it gains complexity when you dig deeper, talk to experts, discuss the impacts on the app.

by itemis

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

Usability Tests in Agile Software Development

User inclusion is essential in user-centered development. It is the only way to understand the requirements users actually have and where problems could arise when interacting with products. This principle is firmly anchored in DIN EN ISO 9241. Usability testing ...

by Sandra Schering

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

Automated Traceability Link Derivation and Maintenance

A systems engineering project comprises tens or even hundreds of thousands of development artifacts, be it stakeholder requirements, elements of the system architecture, software units, test cases etc.

by Boris Holzer

3 min. reading time
Software Development, Usability

Product Development without Programming Skills

We live in rapidly moving times: new products are launched at incredible speed. Bringing products to market faster than your competitors is a key criterion for success. Behind product development, however, lies an extensive and complex process that requires many ...

by Sandra Schering

6 min. reading time
Eclipse, Xtext, Software Development

A Bird’s View on Language Servers

To write computer programs different programming languages are used, often multiple languages for one piece of software. While programs can be written with very basic text editor like NotePad or vi, normally dedicated programming tools are used that give ...

by Karsten Thoms

8 min. reading time
Eclipse, Xtext, Software Development

A UML-agnostic Migration Approach: From UML to DSL

Over the last decade, open source frameworks for creating domain-specific language workbenches have improved significantly. Thereby, it has become easier to utilize model-driven software engineering based on domain-specific languages (DSL). However, many companies ...

by Hendrik Bünder

7 min. reading time

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