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The invisible RTOS continued

Posted Dec 19, 2011, by Colin Walls

Last week I wrote about a test harness for applications using an RTOS. The idea was to have a library of functions corresponding to the API calls of a particular RTOS. Specific tasks of an application, that are under test, would be linked to this library to enable the code to be executed on a desktop computer in a useful way. I had some feedback on this posting from a couple of people, talking about … Read More

Tags: Debugging, API, RTOS, test harness, Nucleus

The invisible RTOS

Posted Dec 12, 2011, by Colin Walls

I was talking about OS-aware debuggers and someone asked me whether I could suggest a technique for unit testing of code for a multi-threaded application. It took me a while before I could fully understand what they were after, but it did become clear eventually. They were considering an environment where a number of engineers were working on an embedded application [using Nucleus]. Each guy was developing … Read More

Tags: Nucleus, test harness, Debugging, RTOS, API