What is Yakindu Statechart Tools?
Yakindu Statechart Tools is an open-source modeling tool for developing reactive, event-driven systems and complex business logic. It is based on the statecharts formalism and provides a graphical statechart editor, code generators for multiple target languages (C, C++, Java, Python), simulation, debugging, automated test case generation, and documentation generation.
Key features include:
- Graphical statechart editor with support for hierarchies, parallel regions, history states, deep history states, events, guard conditions, effects, entry/exit actions, and transitions.
- Simulation allows interactive execution and debugging of statecharts.
- Code generators for generating program code stubs from statecharts.
- Support for unit testing by generating test cases from statecharts.
- Documentation generator extracts details from statecharts into a report.
- Active development community with regular releases.
- Eclipse-based with plugin extensions available.
- Free and open-source under the Eclipse Public License.
Yakindu Statechart Tools is commonly used for developing embedded and real-time systems, reactive applications, complex business logic, workflow and process control systems, and prototyping state machine models. The automated code generation and testing features make it suitable for agile development approaches.
MATLAB, Enterprise Architect, StarUML, Visual Paradigm, WhiteStarUML, Derive, MagicDraw, Xcos, GenMyModel, Papyrus UML, VisSim are some alternatives to Yakindu Statechart Tools.