Part two explains the workings of the JTAG (IEEE 1149.1) boundary-scan technology. In software development, perhaps the most critical, yet least predictable stage in the process is debugging. Many ...

Unit testing is a powerful tool for software quality -- and has been for decades. Unit tests provide a fundamental check that an application meets its software design specifications and behaves as ...

Debug often has been labeled the curse of management and schedules. It is considered unpredictable and often can happen close to the end of the development cycle, or even after – leading to frantic ...

Originally published in the November 1988 Embedded Systems Programming magazine. Correction is the final step of any debugging exercise. Sometimes bug eradication is straightforward; sometimes a bug ...

Part five introduces the concepts of real-time data collection and data visualization. It also explains how compiler options affect the debugging process. Real-Time Embedded Software Testing ...