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How to convince customers of design decisions by the use of traceability

During the software development process various partial results are generated, but it is not always easy to maintain an overview of them. This is however essential for monitoring progress, analysis of the impact of changes and the justification of (design) ...

by Sandra Schering

7 min. reading time
Career

The compatibility of family and work

Many of our colleagues are involved with our clients on a daily basis: travelling is therefore ubiquitous. Can frequent changes in location be reconciled with family and friends?

by Benedikt Niehues

3 min. reading time
Eclipse, Embedded

Improving Eclipse CDT Indexer Performance

Many of our customers have chosen Eclipse CDT as their tooling for developing C/C++ projects and they frequently complain about the poor runtime of the CDT indexer. I would claim that we (Java developers) are quite spoiled about the excellent performance of the ...

by Patrick Könemann

31 min. reading time
itemis products, itemis CREATE, State Machine, Feature of the month, Embedded

Style your statecharts with YAKINDU Statechart Tools

Information: YAKINDU Statechart Tools Is Now itemis CREATE Did you know you can style your statecharts with YAKINDU Statechart Tools? For example, it might be useful to highlight certain states by color – especially when dealing with large state machines. You can ...

by Svenja Wendler

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

A language to analyse trace data efficiently

Many tools support requirements traceability in one or the other way – may it be...

by Boris Holzer

6 min. reading time
Xtext, Software Development

Pro Tip: Disabling the outline in Xtext

There are several explanations on how to modify the outline view in Xtext for your language, for example in the official documentation. But what do you do, if you want to disable the outline?

by Dominik Jetzen

2 min. reading time
Automotive, Eclipse, Software Development

Specification-By-Example for Model Transformations

At itemis one of our core development activities in a lot of our projects is the specification and implementation of model-to-model transformations. In a large project in the automotive domain we have been implementing a huge code base of transformations to and ...

by Andreas Graf

4 min. reading time
itemis products, Embedded, Traceability

What is requirements coverage and how can it be analyzed?

If you are dealing with the term requirements coverage in the context of systems or software development you might discover the following ambivalence:

by Boris Holzer

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

How to program your Raspberry Pi with Statechart Tools in 5 Minutes

Information: YAKINDU Statechart Tools Is Now itemis CREATE Following our prior examples describing the usage of YAKINDU Statechart Tools on embedded platforms, this blog article aims to walk you through the process of using Statechart Tools to bring your Raspberry ...

by René Beckmann

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

How I use User Story Mapping in Release Planning

In this article, we look at a very specific technique that will make the work of the product owner easier and offers great benefits to the whole team: User Story Mapping. What is that? And how can I adapt the method to my specific project?

by Katharina Lattenkamp

6 min. reading time

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