Atomic Spin :: Elements of Software

They said it couldn't be done... “You can't use Agile practices and Test Driven Development in embedded software. The hardware is too tightly coupled with the firmware code. Without objects and interfaces, it's impossible to write tests before source code.” Ha ha! We laugh in their general direction.

Blog posts:

• RubyConf 2007: Enhancing Embedded Development with Ruby
• OSCON and Agile presentations available
• Embedded Development Work Published in Methods & Tools
• minilab Ruby extension now available
• Atomic at O'Reilly's Open Source Convention 2007
• Embedded Systems Conference 2007 Sample Project Available
• The Planning Game and Embedded Software
• D Programming Language for Systems & Embedded Programming
• ESC Silicon Valley 2007, Here We Come…
• CMock - (Ruby based) mock tools for C
• An experiment in pairing
• Hardware in support of automated system testing
• Agile + embedded exists!

Resources:

• Embedded Software Testing
• Effective Test Driven Development in Embedded Software
• Embedded Agile: A Case Study in Numbers
  An in-depth study on the effectiveness of Agile techniques
• Timo's weblog
• AgileEmbedded Yahoo! discussion group