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The greatest challenge facing embedded system developers is debugging software. Embedded systems have become highly complex, running real-time operating systems, connectivity stacks, USB, and security ...

Providing production support to an application is one of the most challenging aspects of software development. Developers are assigned to the maintenance team and work on patching bugs on the ...

Debugging embedded software is my least favorite activity, but unfortunately it's a necessary evil. Thankfully, advances in technology and tool chain innovation have resulted in a plethora of ...

Debugging embedded designs is becoming increasingly difficult as the number of observed and possible interactions between hardware and software continue to grow, and as more features are crammed into ...

I hate race conditions. Developers of multithreaded applications who have bugs that are dependent upon the timing both within and between threads curse race conditions. They go against every instinct ...

All kinds of things can go wrong with your shell scripts, but they don't have to. Let's look a some debugging tips that can help ensure your scripts run the way you intend. The first step in debugging ...

During my first week as a software engineer at Zynga, I was put on a game called Café World. The game was pegged as a “fun and fantastic way to spend your time running your own virtual café,” but that ...

Even if you're a programming wizard with decades of coding experience, you're still bound to make mistakes when writing the code. Thankfully, with Arduino, there are several debugging techniques you ...