Test-Driven Development with Legacy Code Workshop

Course Overview

Course Length:

3 Days

CEUs:

2.2

Format:

Hands-on/Lecture

Test-Driven Development is a powerful design technique used to develop safer, more secure, and more robust embedded software. It also produces an automated regression test suite that you can use to keep your production code behaving as you intend for a long useful life. In this 3-day hands-on course, attendees will learn the fundamentals of Test-Driven Development (TDD) for embedded C programmers, and get to apply some of the concept in your code with expert guidance during the legacy code workshop. This course is ideal for embedded software developers, technical leaders and managers that want to minimize product development crises, preferring defect prevention to debugging.

Topics covered during this course include:

Test-Driven Development
Adapting TDD to Embedded Software Development
TDD and Collaborating Modules
Test Fakes, Stubs, Doubles, Mocks
Test-Driving Next to the Silicon with Mocks
Workshop in your code
Legacy Code Workshop

Prerequisites: Attendees should be experienced with the C programming language and have a general familiarity with embedded software development.

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Syllabus

The following summary covers the major course topics and may be modified at the instructor's discretion based on the needs and pace of the class.

Test-Driven Development

Why Test-Driven Development?
What is Test-Driven Development?
The Microcycle
Exercise

Adapting TDD to Embedded Software Development

Leveraging the Development System
Risks of Development System Unit Testing
Embedded TDD Cycle
Hardware/Platform Independence

TDD and Collaborating Modules

Separation of Responsibilities
Keeping Tests Clean
Tests as Detailed Documentation
Exercise

Test Fakes, Stubs, Doubles, Mocks

Spying on the Hardware
Faking the Time
Link-time Fake
Run-time Fake

Test-Driving Next to the Silicon with Mocks

The Problem Solved by Mock Objects
TDD One Instruction Away from the Hardware
Exercise

Workshop in Your Code

Legacy Code Mindset
Boy Scout Rule
Crash to Pass Algorithm
TDD and Bug Fixes

Legacy Code Workshop

Setup off-target unit test environment to support TDD
Work as a group getting your first code under test
Break in to small groups and continue adding tests

Wrap-up Discussion

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