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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]