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.
Unit Testing of Active Objects and State Machines
Category: Favorite Code Tricks
UML Statechart tip: Be wary of exit-state behavior
Be wary of exit-state driven behavior when designing for UML statecharts.
Why I prefer C++: “RAII All The Things!”
Learn how the C++ RAII idiom enables better code with reduced maintenance overhead.
Why I love C++11 for Embedded Software and Firmware (or C++14, or…)
In the firmware and embedded software engineering domains, engineers overwhelmingly choose C as their language of choice. Evidence of this may be seen in the following screen-grab of a presentation by Dan Saks at CppCon2016. I would recommend the entire presentation, which…
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Brother, can you spare a GPIO?
The core recommendation of this post will be familiar to an experienced embedded systems engineer, yet it is worthy of note and a useful trick for engineers learning their trade. The "trick" in question: Design embedded systems with accessible spare microcontroller…