Updates on Software Engineering

Choosing the right toolchain is critical for effective project lifecycle management. This guide compares leading tools like GitHub, PTC Integrity, Codebeamer, and Polarion, highlighting their strengths, weaknesses, and industry-specific applications. Learn how INVENSITY can help you supercharge your processes with tailored solutions.

This article examines the implementation of Model-Based Development (MBD) in automotive software engineering, emphasizing its advantages over traditional code-based development methods. With the increasing complexity of modern vehicles—driven by advancements in electrification, autonomous systems, and connected technologies—MBD has emerged as a robust solution for managing these challenges. MBD enables engineers to model systems graphically, allowing for early simulation, testing, and automatic code generation, which reduces development time and enhances system reliability.

Fuzzing is a negative testing approach that involves providing invalid or random data as inputs to a software system. By identifying vulnerabilities early on, companies are enabled to secure their software development cycle and avert financial and legal damages, in alignment with ISO 21434 and the upcoming EU Cyber Resilience Act.

Senior Consultant Niclas Pflüger shares his path to leadership through his experience working with software teams, mentees, and other colleagues.

Code readability is one of the most important attributes a program can have. The benefit of having readable code is that it reduces bugs, maintains high development speed, eases maintenance and reuse, and enhances the entire software lifecycle. Hence, code readability is a vital quality metric, making it a skill which every software developer should acquire and master. To do so, one can follow these five best practices: (1) appropriately name variables, (2) focus on abstraction over implementation and DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself), (3) follow the principle of YAGNI (You Aren’t Gonna Need It), (4) maintain consistent indentation, formatting, and noise removal, and (5) gain fresh perspectives through code reviews.

Consultant Adji Arioputro shares his upward career and personal development at INVENSITY, as well as advice on becoming a technology consultant.

In an increasing digitized world, software solutions have become omnipresent in our businesses. It is therefore hardly surprising that investors are also showing an increasingly strong interest in software companies. In this blog post Stefan Marquart, Associate Manager in the field of M&A at INVENSITY, talks about what to keep in mind when investing into the software market.

Keeping up high development speed, reducing bugs and creating maintainable/reusable code – If these are your goals, ‚code quality‘ should be your focus. In this blog post Nils Berger, Senior Consultant at INVENSITY, talks about practices that increase software quality.

INVENSITY GmbH has advised Maxburg on the partnership with the Ravensburg based software company acontis technologies GmbH. With the support of Maxburg, acontis will continue its growth strategy benefitting from increasing global demand for machine-to-device communications in the fields of industrial automation, robotics, medtech and measurement technology.

Autonomous Driving will bring significant change to the automotive industry. Probably most regarding the extend of knowledge and software sharing.