Category Archives: Testing

Setting up googlemock with Visual C++ 2010 Express Edition

Director at Feabhas Limited
Co-Founder and Director of Feabhas since 1995.
Niall has been designing and programming embedded systems for over 30 years. He has worked in different sectors, including aerospace, telecomms, government and banking.
His current interest lie in IoT Security and Agile for Embedded Systems.
Niall Cooling

Following on from my last post about setting up googletest to use with Visual Studio 2010 express edition, this post builds on that by showing how to build, setup and test the googlemock libraries.

If you have read the previous post, then the basic steps are very similar.

First, download the googlemock zip file and unzip it to known location. As before, I suggest something easy, either C:\gmock-1.6.0, or as in my case C:\src\gmock-1.6.0. One useful fact is that all the gtest […]

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Setting up googletest with Visual C++ 2010 Express Edition

Director at Feabhas Limited
Co-Founder and Director of Feabhas since 1995.
Niall has been designing and programming embedded systems for over 30 years. He has worked in different sectors, including aerospace, telecomms, government and banking.
His current interest lie in IoT Security and Agile for Embedded Systems.
Niall Cooling

So on an Embedded, Real-Time blog why am I taking about Visual C++ and googletest?

With the growth and acceptance of agile techniques, such as Test Driven Design (TDD), which is very well explained in James Grenning’s book Test Driven Development for Embedded C, we now have a set of tools and techniques that are:

Natural to use (as they use the native language)
Easy to use (to varying degrees)
Free

that allow the quality of embedded software to be significantly improved prior to target […]

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Effective Testing: The “Swiss Cheese” model

Technical Consultant at Feabhas Ltd
Glennan is an embedded systems and software engineer with over 20 years experience, mostly in high-integrity systems for the defence and aerospace industry.

He specialises in C++, UML, software modelling, Systems Engineering and process development.
Glennan Carnie

Why do we test?

Software development is a collaborative effort. You bring in input from customers, managers, developers, and QA and synthesize a result. You do this because mistakes in requirements or architecture are expensive, possibly leading to lost sales.

When we develop products we want them to be successful. We want our customers to buy, enjoy, and recommend our products or services. In other words, we want to build quality products. In this case, quality means four inter-related things:

Compliance quality– Can […]

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Importing IAR EW 5.4 Projects into Parasoft C++test

Director at Feabhas Limited
Co-Founder and Director of Feabhas since 1995.
Niall has been designing and programming embedded systems for over 30 years. He has worked in different sectors, including aerospace, telecomms, government and banking.
His current interest lie in IoT Security and Agile for Embedded Systems.
Niall Cooling

Background

Recently I have been experimenting with Parasoft’s C++test tool for static analysis of C and C++ code. As part of this I went through the process of importing an existing C project developed in IAR’s Embedded Workbench toolset. Even though importing a project and checking it against MISRA-C isn’t too taxing, I though I would share my notes for doing

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