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Xtext, Software Development, DSL, web engineering

Get your first web-enabled DSL running in 60 seconds

Xtext is the most popular framework for delivering high quality domain-specific languages for the Eclipse community. Since version 2.9 it is web-ready and provides an interface for the integration of text editors in web applications, which we already use for ...

by Franz Becker

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

Refactor your statechart models

YAKINDU Statechart Tools has a lot of useful features. In this series we present the "feature of the month" that will help you domesticating your maybe exceeding statechart models.

by Svenja Wendler

2 min. reading time
itemis products, itemis CREATE, Arduino, State Machine, Embedded

As easy as 1,2,3 – Robot Zowi learns Statecharts

You know Zowi? No? May I introduce to you: Zowi is a robot for kids to teach them programming reactive systems that physically interact with their environment. Zowi walks on two feets, has an ultrasonic distance sensor as eyes, an array of LEDs as mouth, makes ...

by Lothar Wendehals

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

How to program a MSP430 with State Machines in 5 minutes

In this blog I will show you how you can use state machines in your MSP430 projects easily.

by Robin Herrmann

5 min. reading time
itemis products, Embedded

How to create a requirements traceability matrix in excel

In this blogpost I’ll tell you what a requirements traceability matrix (RTM) is and how you can create it. If you are new to requirements traceability, here is a short recap to get you started.

by Florian Antony

11 min. reading time
itemis products, itemis ANALYZE, Embedded

Benefits from requirements traceability when maintaining software

A lot of processes and standards like Automotive SPICE, ISO 26262, IEC 61508, or DO 178b enforce traceability documentation. As a consequence, all relevant links between requirements and other artifacts in the software development process have to be maintained.

by Wolfgang Neuhaus

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

YAKINDU Statechart Tools – free academic licence available now

Information: YAKINDU Statechart Tools Is Now itemis CREATE We believe that software development tools should be free of charge for educational and academic purpose. And we know that there are plenty of exciting projects and studies that use YAKINDU Statechart ...

by Andreas Mülder

2 min. reading time
itemis products, itemis CREATE, Smart Technologies, Software Development

How can I capture complex logic in an App?

Several customers of ours need Apps that represent internal logic that cannot be externalized to backend services.

by itemis

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

Tracing requirements and source code

In the last month, our team behind YAKINDU Traceability received a couple of questions regarding how to establish bidirectional traceability between requirements or design elements and software units a.k.a source code – as for example required in the Automotive ...

by Boris Holzer

5 min. reading time
Eclipse, Software Development

Git Pro Tip: Show Branch in Command Line Prompt

I am a heavy Git on command line user. Since I work a lot with branches it is important to know which branch I am currently on. Here's a nifty trick for all of you juggling many branches simultaneously.

by Christian Dietrich

1 min. reading time

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