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 [...]
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 [...]