Matthew Eshleman, Author at Cove Mountain Software

Code maintenance and magic numbers

Posted by Matthew Eshlemanon May 18, 2022May 18, 2022in Best Practices, Commentary2 Comments

We encounter many forms of magic numbers in the field of firmware and embedded software. How do we ensure maintainable code when working with these values? This post provides an exampl

Unit Testing of QP/C (qpc) based active objects using CppUTest

Posted by Matthew Eshlemanon May 4, 2022May 5, 2022in Best Practices, TDD, unit testingLeave a comment

cpputest-for-qpc enables host based unit testing of active objects within the QP/C framework, using CppUTest.

Unit Testing with QP/C++ (qpcpp) and CppUTest

Posted by Matthew Eshlemanon April 25, 2022April 25, 2022in Best Practices, TDD, unit testingLeave a comment

cpputest-for-qpcpp enables host based unit testing of active objects within the QP/C++ framework, using CppUTest.

What is an Active Object?

Posted by Matthew Eshlemanon April 20, 2021August 13, 2021in Best Practices, TDD4 Comments

What is an active object? This post describes the key elements of this critical design pattern and provides concrete examples.

A survey of concurrency bugs

Posted by Matthew Eshlemanon March 1, 2021March 8, 2021in Best Practices, Commentary, Favorite Code Tricks, Real Time3 Comments

Concurrency is hard. Multithreaded code is hard. This post surveys common concurrency related bugs and outlines possible solutions.