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Who says you can’t test drive a device driver?
I keep hearing that you can’t write unit tests for device drivers. I don’t believe that’s true. To disprove this claim, I thought I would find a device driver and write some unit tests for it. This...
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Now I’ll really use test driven development to write device driver code
In the last article, I added tests to existing code. So I did not really do Test Driven Development. I did Test After Development. Let’s do some TDD now and design the block erase function. I’ll go...
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Deep Agile Embedded Brain Storm
Let’s say you were an embedded systems developer, and you were planning on attending a conference like the Deep Agile Embedded. What questions would you hope you could get answers for at the...
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Don’t Let Embedded Tool Chain Slow You Down.
During my TDD session at the Embedded Systems Conference yesterday, I did a demo. Before the demo, I make the case for TDD as a way to prevent bugs (see Physics of TDD). For the live demo I usually...
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Agile Design and Embedded
One important realization on the journey from a BDUF approach to an iterative and agile approach is that design is never done. Designs evolve. The waterfall emphasis has been to unnaturally try to...
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