This tutorial introduces itemis CREATE which provides an integrated modeling environment for the specification and development of reactive, event-driven systems based on the concepts of Finite State Machines (FSM) and Harel Statecharts. It is an easy-to-use tool featuring sophisticated graphical statechart editing, validation and simulation of statecharts as well as code generation for C, C++, or Java.
This tutorial will teach you how to
Please note that this tutorial will not explain statecharts in general, so you should familiarize yourself with the basic concepts of state machines first, see UML state machine.
In order to get a fully-working state machine implementation that you can integrate with your project, you will have to familiarize yourself with code generation, which is covered by chapter Code generation in this documentation. You can generate your state machine implementation as source code in C, C++, and Java out of the box. Alternatively, you can write your own code generator for other programming languages or for other purposes.
Before we get started, make sure you have itemis CREATE installed. For installation instructions, see the itemis CREATE Installation Guide.