Overview
- Covers patterns for firmware and embedded software
- Covers embedded software development without the hardware
- Shows how to effectively use continuous integration and automated unit testing
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Discover how to apply software engineering patterns to develop more robust firmware faster than traditional embedded development approaches. In the authors’ experience, traditional embedded software projects tend towards monolithic applications that are optimized for their target hardware platforms. This leads to software that is fragile in terms of extensibility and difficult to test without fully integrated software and hardware. Patterns in the Machine focuses on creating loosely coupled implementations that embrace both change and testability.
This book illustrates how implementing continuous integration, automated unit testing, platform-independent code, and other best practices that are not typically implemented in the embedded systems world is not just feasible but also practical for today’s embedded projects.
After reading this book, you will have a better idea of how to structure your embedded software projects. You will recognize that while writing unit tests, creating simulators, and implementing continuous integration requires time and effort up front, you will be amply rewarded at the end of the project in terms of quality, adaptability, and maintainability of your code.
What You Will Learn
- Incorporate automated unit testing into an embedded project
- Design and build functional simulators for an embedded project
- Write production-quality software when hardware is not available
- Use the Data Model architectural pattern to create a highly decoupled design and implementation
- Understand the importance of defining the software architecture before implementation starts and how to do it
- Discover why documentation is essential for an embedded project
- Use finite state machines in embedded projects
Who This Book Is For
Mid-level or higher embedded systems (firmware) developers, technical leads, software architects, and development managers.Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Wayne Taylor has been a technical writer for 25 years. He has worked with companies such as IBM, Novell, Compaq, HP, EMC, SanDisk, and Western Digital. He has documented compilers, LAN driver development, storage system deployment and maintenance, and dozens of low-level and system-management APIs. He also has ten years of experience as a software development manager. He is the co-author of two US patents and holds master’s degrees in English and human factors. He is a co-author of OS/2 and NetWare Programming (Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1995).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Patterns in the Machine
Book Subtitle: A Software Engineering Guide to Embedded Development
Authors: John T. Taylor, Wayne T. Taylor
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6440-9
Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA
eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Apress Access Books, Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Copyright Information: John T. Taylor, Wayne T. Taylor 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4842-6439-3Published: 20 January 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4842-6440-9Published: 19 January 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 293
Number of Illustrations: 59 b/w illustrations
Topics: Professional Computing, Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems, Circuits and Systems, Hardware and Maker