
State Machine Origami
How Franca IDL and itemis CREATE can be integrated to validate embedded software components against interface contracts interactively during development.
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Dr. Klaus Birken
9 min readHolistic protection and seamless traceability for cybersecurity, functional safety, and the Cyber Resilience Act
OverviewMethodological excellence and tailored tools for model-based system and software engineering.
OverviewEnterprise software from a single source: AI integration, legacy migration and full-stack development — cost-efficiently and sovereignly hosted.
Overviewitemis ANALYZE, itemis CREATE and itemis SECURE cover traceability, model-based development and threat analysis. Each tool stands on its own – together they show their full strength.
Requirements Traceability for Engineering Toolchains

the engineering workbench for state machines

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How Franca IDL and itemis CREATE can be integrated to validate embedded software components against interface contracts interactively during development.
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Dr. Klaus Birken
9 min read
How to apply Test-Driven Development to model-driven software development using SCTUnit, itemis CREATE's unit testing framework for statechart models.
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Axel Terfloth
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Why a TARA loses its references on the way from supplier to OEM, what openXSAM gets back, and why that takes a model.
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Jens Bühl
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Threat scenario, attack path and attack feasibility belong together: what makes a scenario, why the path gets rated, and how the method shifts the result.
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Jens Bühl
13 min read
The statechart sketch gets implemented by hand, and then the two drift apart. How itemis CREATE pulls existing C, C++ and Java code straight into the model.
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Axel Terfloth
10 min read
An honest, detailed comparison of three leading statechart tools — MathWorks Stateflow, IBM Rhapsody, and itemis CREATE — covering features, pricing, and which tool fits which team.
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Axel Terfloth
8 min read