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Software Development, web engineering

Developing and publishing Angular 4 libraries – Part I

Developing large web applications with Angular is challenging, especially when it comes to structuring the code base into small, individually developed modules. Many projects struggle with this and start building huge monoliths instead.

by Franz Becker

10 min. reading time
Agile & Usability, Usability

Enterprise visual design: Tool comparison

While creating a complex visual design, have you ever thought that there must be an easier way? When interaction and visual designers face the challenge of creating a complex design over several months, the choice and the correct usage of tools is crucial.

by Karsten Nolte

16 min. reading time
Automotive, Software Development

How to configure your free AUTOSAR model viewer

Viewing and analyzing AUTOSAR models is a recurring task in automotive software development. Very often this is done by just inspecting the XML, which is cumbersome. Some companies have smarter "simple" tools in their portfolio, but they are often included in ...

by Andreas Graf

4 min. reading time
Agile & Usability, Usability

Enterprise Visual Design: Beware of these easy traps

If you work like me as a visual (interaction) designer on big concepts with multiple colleagues over months to a year, you face completely different challenges than when developing a small concept.

by Karsten Nolte

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

YAKINDU Statechart Tools October release – new and noteworthy

Information: YAKINDU Statechart Tools Is Now itemis CREATE We released YAKINDU Statechart Tools Standard and Professional Edition version 3.1.0 today! Apart from several bug fixes we added the following main features:

by Andreas Mülder

7 min. reading time
Smart Technologies, Software Development

Which iOS and Android version should I support?

You need an App. For your customers. You already learned, that iOS and Android are the platforms to satisfy and that everything else is dead.

by itemis

5 min. reading time
Software Development

How to remove downloading messages from Maven log output

I think everyone of us knows these terrible log lines that blow up the Maven log output sometimes when you've cleared your local repository. Why does the artifact resolution write out the downloading procedure for every single artifact. This unneccessarily blows ...

by Stanley Hillner

9 min. reading time
Software Development

EB solys and Franca Contracts – Retrace and validate the usage of interfaces

Improving the reliability of interfaces is a crucial aspect regarding the quality and predictability of complex software systems. You might know that situation from your daily work pretty well. Although you have full test coverage of your interfaces, your ...

by Torsten Mosis

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

How to use state machines for your modeling (Part 5): The State Pattern

After we have discovered the implementation of state machines by means of switch statement and table, let's take a look at an object-oriented implementation variant: the State pattern. We will then compare the three variants.

by Rainer Klute

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

How to use state machines for your modeling (Part 4): The state machine as a table

In the first parts of our series "How to use state machines for your modeling", we have looked at the basics of state machines and graphical modelling (see part 1 and part 2) and discovered the implementation by means of a switch statement.

by Rainer Klute

12 min. reading time

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