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  • Software Development

    Contract-based software development with Franca

    This is the first part of a three-part series about software interfaces and contracts. We will explain how modeling and formal specification of interface contracts helps in improving development as well as the quality of the resulting software products. In the ...

    by Dr. Klaus Birken
    10 min. reading time
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    How to use state machines for your modeling (Part 2): Time-controlled triggering of state transitions

    In the first part of this series, we used YAKINDU Statechart Tools to model the behaviour of a blind control as a state machine, and we discovered basic elements of the modeling language, such as states, transitions, or events.

    by Rainer Klute
    13 min. reading time
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    How to use state machines for your modeling (Part 1)

    Computer science is about solving specific tasks with the help of computers or computer-controlled systems. Examples might include the creation of a railway timetable, the visualisation of neutron fluxes, the distribution of power in a nuclear reactor, the ...

    by Rainer Klute
    10 min. reading time
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    YAKINDU Statechart Tools 3.0 Professional Edition – New and Noteworthy

    Information: YAKINDU Statechart Tools Is Now itemis CREATE Today the YAKINDU Team released YAKINDU Statechart Tools Professional Edition 3.0. This release is the first new major release of the Professional Edition that was built on top of the new Standard Edition ...

    by Andreas Mülder
    11 min. reading time
  • 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
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    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
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    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
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    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

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