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Embedded, Traceability

IEC 61508: What does this standard mean for software development?

For more and more systems, functional safety requirements must be met. For software development, the fulfillment of IEC 61508 "Functional safety of safety-related electronic / electronic / programmable electronic systems" is to be demonstrated – especially in the ...

by Martin Heininger

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

How to simulate a statechart model with YAKINDU Statechart Tools

Information: YAKINDU Statechart Tools Is Now itemis CREATE Recently I heard a radio spot about the Ferris wheel in Vienna. It celebrates its 120th anniversary this year. While thinking about how to model the control of such a Ferris wheel I realized this might be ...

by Svenja Wendler

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

SPIDR – five simple techniques for a perfectly split user story

Some time ago I discovered an interesting and helpful method for splitting user stories into more lightweight stories more easily and effectively. Agile coach and co-founder of the Scrum Alliance, Mike Cohn, noted that "almost every story can be split with one of ...

by Katharina Lattenkamp

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

Model-Driven Software Development meets Test-Driven Development

In this blog post you will learn how Model-Driven Software Development (MDSD) and Test-Driven Development (TDD) can work together and how you can develop software model driven and test driven.

by Jonathan Thöne

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

Introducing YAKINDU Statechart Tools 3.0 Standard Edition

Information: YAKINDU Statechart Tools Is Now itemis CREATE We are proud to announce the new YAKINDU Statechart Tools Standard Edition. With version number 3.0 it is a major release with a bunch of great new features and a huge step for the whole YAKINDU Team!

by Axel Terfloth

10 min. reading time
Eclipse, Xtext, DSL

From classical language design to language engineering with Xtext

The first high-level programming language Plankalkül (Plan Calculus) from Konrad Zuse was developed between 1942 and 1945. Since this time, a lot of languages have been developed and discarded. But how is a language defined? What is a domain specific or visual ...

by Dennis Röck

5 min. reading time
Automotive, Eclipse

How to fix Artop memory problems

In the automotive domain, itemis and others make intensive use of the community project Artop (Autosar Tool Platform) – an Eclipse (EMF) based implementation of the AUTOSAR meta-model. Artop supports the conversion of models between the many revisions of the ...

by Andreas Graf

3 min. reading time
Embedded, Traceability

Effective traceability in inter-organizational projects

Software and systems traceability has long been recognized as critical elements of rigorous software systems developments. Recent studies deliver evidence that this long-term perception in fact is true.

by Patrick Mäder

9 min. reading time
itemis products, itemis ANALYZE, Feature of the month

About bidirectional traceability, link semantics and a toggle button

This post is about how a simple toggle button might resolve a philosophical conflict. The conflict arises from the following question: "How many directions does a trace link have?". Pop quiz!

by Boris Holzer

6 min. reading time
Eclipse, Embedded, GEF

Graphical Editing Framework (GEF) 5.0.0 Release

I am happy to announce that version 5.0.0 of the Graphical Editing Framework (GEF) is part of the Eclipse Oxygen simultaneous release.

by Alexander Nyßen

2 min. reading time

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