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Appearance at ‘The Agile Embedded Podcast’

Posted by Matthew Eshlemanon August 13, 2022August 14, 2022in UncategorizedLeave a comment

I was interviewed by Jeff Gable and Luca Ingianni, the hosts of The Agile Embedded Podcast. We centered our discussion around my 2020 blog post: The Matthew Test: 15 Steps to Better Embedded Software (and Firmware). Jump in and listen…

Code maintenance: enums and lookup tables

Posted by Matthew Eshlemanon June 18, 2022June 18, 2022in Favorite Code Tricks2 Comments

An enum combined with a lookup table presents a unique code maintenance concern. Learn more in this post.

Code maintenance and magic numbers

Posted by Matthew Eshlemanon May 18, 2022May 18, 2022in Best Practices, Commentary1 Comment

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.