The past few months, I've covered a number of automated testing systems available to Ruby programmers in general and Rails developers in particular. Automated testing, especially when you use it ...

Many reasons exist why Linux is a good operating system for embedded applications. Besides being open source and cost effective, one of the most important reasons is portability; a Linux application ...

Postmortem debugging in desktop operating systems (OSes) such as Windows and Linux has been around for some time. If the OS crashes, a kernel dump file is written to the disk for postmortem debugging ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

Real-time system designers and embedded software developers are veryfamiliar with the tools and techniques for designing, developing anddebugging standalone or loosely coupled embedded systems. UML ...

Hopefully you know perfectly well what the software in your microcontroller is supposed to do. However, if you have been asking yourself why it doesn’t work as expected and wondered what it is ...

I've just got the exciting task of debugginging a fairly large and complex ASP application that uses COM+ and IIS. The application works fine when it is working, but "hangs" several times a ...

Debugging applications based on a very long-instruction word (VLIW) DSP-CPU-based multimedia processor is a major challenge because the system designer is exploiting instruction-level parallelism (ILP ...

William J. Francis recently learned you can run the Android Debug Bridge over TCP. Learn how easy it is to do. As an Android developer, I’m spoiled. I depend on my IDE, logcat, and most of all, the ...