Matthew Eshleman, Author at Cove Mountain Software

The Anatomy of a Race Condition

Posted by Matthew Eshlemanon June 21, 2020in Best Practices, Commentary, Real Time3 Comments

What is a race condition? This post defines and explores this troublesome software flaw.

Unit Testing of Active Objects and State Machines

Posted by Matthew Eshlemanon April 17, 2020April 27, 2020in Best Practices, Favorite Code Tricks, state charts, TDD, unit testing1 Comment

How do we unit test an active object or state machine? This post explores techniques for successful unit testing of modules driven by state machines.

The Matthew Test: 15 Steps to Better Embedded Software (and Firmware)

Posted by Matthew Eshlemanon March 23, 2020March 23, 2020in Best Practices, Commentary4 Comments

15 quick yes/no questions and associated recommendations for creating better embedded software and firmware.

UML Statechart tips: Handling errors when entering a state

Posted by Matthew Eshlemanon March 8, 2020March 14, 2020in Best Practices1 Comment

My second post with tips for designing with UML startcharts is now available over at embeddedrelated.com. Hope it is useful! The first post, discussing exit-state behavior, may be found here.

UML Statechart tip: Be wary of exit-state behavior

Posted by Matthew Eshlemanon February 19, 2020March 17, 2020in Best Practices, Commentary, Favorite Code Tricks3 Comments

Be wary of exit-state driven behavior when designing for UML statecharts.