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Quit bugging me: surprise NaN!

You've got a complex system. There are dozens of tasks, a handful of interrupt routines. Your system runs fine, for hours or sometimes days on end. The loading on your system is...

15 years 2 months ago

Quit Bugging Me: Induction

Working on a customer problem once, we had an interesting phenomena. Upgrading a system with a large VME cage and several boards, the customer replaced older processor boards with...

15 years 4 months ago

Targeting Your Assets

Embedded folks know that managing your target device is a key part of the development process. While you can do a lot on the host, the ‘rubber meets the road’ when you run your...

15 years 5 months ago

Carrier Grade Starts with Finding and Fixing Software Defects Before Deployment

Did you know 25% to 50% of deployed device failures are due to software defects? This statistic should be nowhere near this high, considering there are a few very good solutions...

15 years 5 months ago

The Software Managers’ Blind Spot....

I’m amazed at the consistency of input I’m getting from device software execs around the world about their lack of visibility into their testing process. Everybody is spending huge...

15 years 6 months ago

Runtime Technology Turning Heads in Device Test

When Wind River introduced Sensorpoint runtime instrumentation technology a few years ago it was well received as an enabler for the embedded device diagnostics process. Recently...

15 years 7 months ago

Software Certification

I wonder why it is always the case that the period of time just before year end is suddenly very hectic! There must be a universal law about that, something like Murphy’s Law...

17 years 11 months ago

Mitigating Risk

The phone rings. A customer has an application destined for a high-risk environment, and somewhere in test they’ve found a new unanticipated condition. A " Tiger Team " is formed –...

17 years 11 months ago

Compliance vs Conformance?

What is the difference between compliance and conformance and what does that mean to you and me? Or more importantly what does this mean to your project? Well, compliance is an...

Fault Injection

In his recent blog post, Maarten Koning writes about fault propagation paths . That is, faults happening in one place in the code propagating to affect other parts of a system...

18 years 1 month ago