The itemis south branch has been operating out of Pforzheim (which is 50 kms west of Stuttgart) for several years and we are really having nice offices in a good environment here. However, for a number of reasons, we feel that there are a number of factors that made us consider the Pforzheim location: itemis [...]

Integrating the AUTOSAR tool chain with Eclipse based model transformations Andreas Graf1,Markus Völter2 1: itemis GmbH, Blücherstr. 32, 75177 Pforzheim, Germany 2: independent/itemis GmbH, Hohnerstr. 25, 70469 Stuttgart, Germany This paper has been presented and published at ERTS2 2010 Extended Abstract for Application: Keywords: AUTOSAR, Eclipse, Open Source, model transformation, Artop, Model Driven Engineering, AUTOSAR [...]

Just when I was thinking on how to replace the bullet point hell for introducing my CV vor an upcoming talk I came across a TED talk by David McCandless (http://www.ted.com/talks/david_mccandless_the_beauty_of_data_visualization.html). He provides a slide with colored bars for his CV which I consider visually fresh. So I decided to try one with Excel and [...]

Within the publically funded research project VERDE we are implementing not only an Eclipse-based ReqIF based editor as outline in a previous blog post, but also a traceability solution, since requirements alone would be moot. There are some approaches to this in Eclipse already. The EDONA project imports requirements into a UML/SysML model profile in [...]

MDSD is one way to improve quality and speed in software development. However, not all code in a system will be generated. There is usually a certain amount of code that is still handcoded. Manually written code is more error-prone, especially when you use languages that give you a high degree of freedom – such [...]

The Eclipse Automotive Industry Working Group is meeting again next Monday at Kugler-Maag offices in Kornwestheim near Stuttgart. The Automotive IWG defines its goals as: To provide an infrastructure for tool development required by the automotive industry To address and support the needs for the whole automotive software development cycle To avoid that the same [...]

A year ago I had blogged about Inform 7, an interesting DSL for the implementation of interactive fiction. I had briefly explored it, but didn’t do much more, because some of the concepts made it hard to use for my purposes (e.g. “relations” could only be defined between instances of objects, not classes. So you [...]

The Eclipse release Helios brought a lot of new features. A lot of attention on the website is put on Xtext or Acceleo. But for the embedded world, a nice new feature has found its way into CDT: The subproject Codan provides a framework for static analysis of the C/C++ code directly in the editor.  [...]

Within the VERDE project, itemis is working on the traceability of requirements based on the Eclipse platform. To be able to work with requirements, we have implemented an Ecore representation of the RIF/ReqIF requirements exchange format. RIF was developed by the German HIS Automotive and is now being standardized by the OMG under the new [...]

Xtext 1.0.0 is scheduled for the Helios release and while I think that it is a great tool we shouldn’t miss the other apects of a toolchain that are crucial for MDSD: M2T, especially code generation. It is only with M2M and M2T that models show their full potential, since we can use automation. The [...]