Best Practices Archives - Cove Mountain Software

Stopping Bugs: Seven Layers of Defense

Posted by Matthew Eshlemanon August 16, 2020August 16, 2020in Best Practices, CommentaryLeave a 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.

The Anatomy of a Race Condition

Posted by Matthew Eshlemanon June 21, 2020in Best Practices, Commentary, Real Time2 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 testingLeave a 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.