Best Practices Archives

What is an Active Object?

Posted by Matthew Eshlemanon April 20, 2021April 20, 2021in Best Practices, TDDLeave a comment

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 TimeLeave a comment

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

Stopping Bugs: Code Reviews

Posted by Matthew Eshlemanon October 10, 2020in Best Practices, Commentary1 Comment

Code reviews are a critical best practice in our never-ending battle to stop bugs.

Stopping Bugs: Seven Layers of Defense

Posted by Matthew Eshlemanon August 16, 2020August 16, 2020in Best Practices, Commentary1 Comment

Preventing software bugs from reaching our customers requires multiple layers of defense. This post explores seven layers of bug prevention.

Extreme Asynchronous Firmware Design

Posted by Matthew Eshlemanon July 18, 2020July 18, 2020in Best Practices, ResearchLeave a comment

Firmware designs typically handle asynchronous events. But what happens when those events take seconds or even minutes to respond? Download this article to learn more.