Don’t Run Unit Tests on the Arduino Device or Emulator The case against microcontroller Device/Emulator/Sim-based tests There’s a lot of discussion about what unit test means and I’m not really trying to make an argument about that here. This post is not telling you to avoid all practical testing on your ultimate target hardware. I … Read more
There is one rather sneaky trick not mentioned here so far. We assume that you have no extra way to store data, but that is not strictly true. One way around your problem is to do the following horrible thing, which should not be attempted by anyone under any circumstances: Use the network traffic to … Read more
One unit testing framework in C is Check; a list of unit testing frameworks in C can be found here and is reproduced below. Depending on how many standard library functions your runtime has, you may or not be able to use one of those. AceUnit AceUnit (Advanced C and Embedded Unit) bills itself as … Read more
Working for about 4-5 years with software/firmware development and environment testing of miniaturized satellites*, I would like to share my experience here. *(miniaturized satellites are a lot more prone to single event upsets than bigger satellites due to its relatively small, limited sizes for its electronic components) To be very concise and direct: there is … Read more