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itemis products, Embedded, Traceability

YAKINDU Traceability: International patent application has been published

We are happy to announce that the World Intellectual Property Organization has officially published our patent application „Tracing Dependencies between Development Artifacts in a Development Project”.

by Boris Holzer

3 min. reading time
Eclipse, Xtext, Software Development

How to get started with Xtext Language Servers and Che

Eclipse Che 5 has support for the Microsoft Language Server Protocol and so has Eclipse Xtext in its new Version 2.11. So let's see how we can bring them both together.

by Christian Dietrich

15 min. reading time
Eclipse, Xtext, Software Development

Eclipse Xtext 2.11 is released!

The Xtext team is happy to announce the release 2.11. The update is available on the release repository. Eclipse independent libraries are published to Maven Central. We encourage users to upgrade now and enjoy an even better experience with the Xtext framework.

by Xtext-Team

5 min. reading time
Agile Software Development, Agile & Usability, Scrum

When a sprint feels like running: Terminology in Scrum

No doubt: Scrum comes with a lot of great ideas – and even better: They are applicable on a product development process. But on the other hand, there are some strange terms and metaphors which may lead to misunderstandings in the Scrum process – at least they were ...

by Boris Holzer

4 min. reading time
itemis products, Model Viewer, Automotive, Embedded

View Simulink® and Stateflow® models without Simulink®

Do you use Simulink® and Stateflow® from MathWorks? These tools are powerful and often a central part in the engineering tool chain. Models and block libraries created with them carry valuable engineering knowledge of your development team and organization.

by Axel Terfloth

4 min. reading time
Eclipse, Xtext, Software Development

XtextSummit goes EclipseCon France

Xtext is a well known framework and highly represented at conferences like EclipseCon around the world. It is always fun getting together with people who build great software and talk about their experiences with the framework. In 2014 itemis decided to host a ...

by Holger Schill

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

How to integrate headless code generation in your build tools

Did you know that YAKINDU Statechart Tools Professional Edition brings great additional features to the Open Edition? The newest addition is the headless code generation. In this article, I'll show you, how to integrate it into your favorite build tools.

by René Beckmann

10 min. reading time
Eclipse, Usability, Software Development

How to improve your GUI design with usability tests

Developing and actually using a graphical user interface (GUI) are two sides of a coin. As a software developer, have you ever wondered how users of your application are getting along with the GUI you created for them?

by Rainer Klute

8 min. reading time
Software Development

Are physicists smarter than software developers?

Did you spend last weekend like we did? Sitting on your couch, watching the new season of CBS' The Big Bang Theory? Then you know that the great Dr. Sheldon Cooper is anything but modest about his intellect. Can you match wits with him and prove that software ...

by Jens Wagener

3 min. reading time
itemis products, itemis CREATE, Usability

Pizza, usability and a little slice of romance

What do these things have in common, you might ask? The answer is both simple and intriguing: I’m talking about a “Usability Speed-Testing”!

by Simon Eiterig

5 min. reading time

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