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Deliver traceable safety-critical apps, fast, within your DevToolchain

What we do:

useblocks offers developer-centric traceability tools for safety-critical applications. By leveraging existing engineering processes such as version control and continuous integration, our tools embed quality into the released software sprint by sprint.

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Solutions

Sphinx-Needs as new Standard

>10 OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers trust Sphinx-Needs for their ISO26262 compliant SW development Compliant Trust Check Logo

304,476 monthly downloads of Sphinx-Needs

The problem

Ensuring traceability is complex, costly, and hindered by tool breaks

Software teams face challenges in maintaining system traceability across multiple DevTools, open-source libraries, and software branches, which slows time to market and drives up costs.

The solution

Development teams use useblocks to establish traceability, accelerate development, and ensure compliance

The useblocks Engineering-as-Code stack systematically links requirements, documentation, source code, and test cases, embedding traceability into projects, sprint by sprint, release by release.

The useblocks product line:

Input

Build

Analysis

VS Code Extension

Boost your developer's engineering-as-code experience

Easily manage needs objects within the explorer view and ensure data validation during document creation.

Enhanced Productivity On-the-fly Validation Smart Connectivity

Features: View ubTrace data Database Viewer Code Completion Need ID Selection

ubCode product page

Open-Source

Bringing Engineering-as-Code to the Sphinx framework

Combine Docs-as-Code with Application Lifecycle Management, to track requirements, specifications, test cases, and other engineering objects in your documentation.

> 10 OEM and Tier 1 Customer > 304k monthly downloads

Features: Meta Data Sphinx Support Links Analysis

Sphinx-Needs page

Database

Trace every artifact in your software project

ubTrace offers insights and analytics for development objects, seamlessly integrating with your DevToolchain.

Seamless Traceability Integrated Analytics Data Integration

Features: Database for fast analysis Need Object Data Model Handles different versions Edit Link for Need Object

ubTrace page

Why useblocks?

>13 yrs

Automotive Toolchain Expertise

>20

OSS Projects published

>304K

Sphinx-Needs Downloads

What our Clients say

“The greatest advantage of Sphinx-Needs is its unparalleled flexibility and seamless integration with legacy systems within our toolchain.”

Tier 1 Customer, 2024

“An exceptional requirement tooling solution! Sphinx-Needs is one of our key tools for creating certification artifacts.”

OSS user Eclipse Project, 2024

“useblocks has transformed our documentation process, providing robust, integrated solutions that significantly improve our efficiency and compliance.”

OEM Customer, 2024

“useblocks' Engineering-as-Code process has made vertical and horizontal traceability achievable, revolutionizing our safety audits.”

Safety Auditor at OEM project, 2023

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Introducing Engineering-as-Code in the Automotive Industry

The Team