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Continuous Integration

Unleash your artifacts!

Software is not developed for its own sake, it is usually intended to be used by real customers and needs to be deployed to production systems. In order to assemble larger software compositions all the smaller artifacts that make up the product have to be released ...

by Stanley Hillner

9 min. reading time
Eclipse, Xtext, GEF, Software Development

Editing Graphviz *.dot files with the GEF DOT Editor

Graphviz *.dot files are usual text files containing the textual representation of graph definitions. The structure of these *.dot files are defined by the DOT Language that provides more than 150 graph, subgraph, node and edge attributes to influence the graph ...

by Tamas Miklossy

6 min. reading time
itemis products, Embedded, Traceability

Visualize the relation between artifacts with YAKINDU Traceability

Change requests are common in development projects. When we get the list of customer requirements at the beginning of a project, we all know that some of these requirements will change later – and often we have already implemented and tested the requirement that ...

by Boris Holzer

5 min. reading time
itemis products, itemis CREATE, Embedded

YAKINDU Statechart Tools 2.8.0 – New and noteworthy

Information: YAKINDU Statechart Tools Is Now itemis CREATE The YAKINDU team is happy to announce YAKINDU Statechart Tools 2.8.0 and the first release candidate of the Professional Edition!

by Andreas Mülder

5 min. reading time
Eclipse, Xtext, Software Development

Xtext 2.11 Release Plan Changed

The Eclipse Xtext project team has decided to change the schedule for the upcoming 2.11 release. The release was planned for October 18th, 2016 – right before EclipseCon Europe. However, instead of releasing the final version on that date, a beta version of ...

by Xtext-Team

7 min. reading time
Eclipse, Xtext, Software Development

Xtext hint: Content assist for multiple consecutive keywords

Keywords play a central role in Xtext DSLs to define the languages general structure. In many cases a single keyword is sufficient to specify what is expected next. Although Xtext generally supports multiple consecutive keywords the default content assist ...

by Hendrik Bünder

7 min. reading time
itemis products, Embedded, Traceability

Simple tool integration with YAKINDU Traceability

There are various definitions for software traceability. However, they have a common ground: Traceability is achieved by linking individual artifacts such as requirements, source code, tests, etc... One of the best definitions for software traceability is the one ...

by Christoph Borowski

4 min. reading time
Eclipse, Xtext

Using Xtext with Xcore and Gradle

Xtext derives a metamodel from the grammar file by default. For more complex languages it is often better to define the metamodel manually since it allows much more control over the AST, the abstract syntax tree. The metamodel has to be an EMF metamodel, which ...

by Karsten Thoms

9 min. reading time
itemis products, Embedded, Traceability

How to validate traceability data

"The only constant is change..." This saying also applies to IT projects. We always wish that all requirements are known at the beginning of a project and remain stable through its progress – however reality teaches us almost always the opposite: requirements are ...

by Christoph Borowski

3 min. reading time
Eclipse, Xtext

About the notation of the names Eclipse Xtext, Xtend, Xbase, Xcore & Xpand

xText? XPand? XBASE? We sometimes see different ways these names are being written in online publications and even scientific works. Here's a quick reminder on how to write them correctly and why this is important.

by Karsten Thoms

3 min. reading time

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