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 [...]
Nirmal Sasidharan kindly helped in providing an English translation of our Autosar / Artop activities:
Standardized platforms are the solutions to increased development costs and quality problems in many areas of software development. In the automotive industry, platforms for the ECU Software have been defined within AUTOSAR and Genivi. OEMs and suppliers are thereby assured of [...]
Robert Bosch GmbH has joined Eclipse as a Solution Member. Within the automotive domain, the membership of Bosch is a significant signal, since it is the first time that an OEM or a 1-st tier supplier supports Eclipse in this way.
It reflects the fact that Eclipse has established itself in the development tool chain of [...]
I have been following the development / adoption of MDSD in China for a while. The blogging community does not seem to be as active as in Europe, since there are only a few blogs where MDSD is addressed and the search engine hits for MDSD in Chinese often refer to articles about MDA from [...]
A few days ago I posted a comment on Jim Whitehurst’s article, stating my opinion that his request to make mission critical application software of the ECUs is unrealistic. So does that mean that open source software has no future in automotive? Of course not. The software of an automotive company could be divided into [...]
Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst voices his opinion that open sourcing the embedded software in automobiles would significantly increase quality in an article published in business weekly. Being an advocate of open source myself, I still think Mr. Whitehurst hasn’t done the open source community a service, because he superficially claims that open sourcing software [...]
Currently we are doing some work on the specification of non-functional properties (such as timing) in the ITEA2 VERDE project. In VERDE, the UML profile MARTE plays a major role. MARTE has a BNF-based Value Specification Language that can be used to specify, amongst other things, timing like The VSL is specified in typical BNF [...]
On the lighter side of DSLs, Xtext 0.8M5 fixes a bug with unicode characters. It is now possible to use Unicode characters in literals of your grammar.
So the example grammar of new Xtext Projects in Chinese could look like this:
Of course, content assist and outline are fully supported:
All you have to do is to set [...]
Usually I hate it when APIs break. TMF 0.8 introduces a different scoping API than Xtext 0.7. It took me a while to figure out. So I’ll show the changes below:
Component :
   “component” name = ID “{”
   (ports+=Port)*
   “}”;
Port :
   “port” dir=Direction name=ID “:” ref=[Interface|ID] “;”
   ;
enum Direction :
   IN=”in” | OUT=”out”;
Instance:
   “instance” name=ID “:” [...]
Some of the screencasts explaining an MDSD showcase have just been published on my youtube site.
The introductory screencast to our showcase:
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The screencast explaining Xtext in our showcase (in 3 parts):
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