The past few months, I've covered a number of automated testing systems available to Ruby programmers in general and Rails developers in particular. Automated testing, especially when you use it ...

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Many reasons exist why Linux is a good operating system for embedded applications. Besides being open source and cost effective, one of the most important reasons is portability; a Linux application ...

Postmortem debugging in desktop operating systems (OSes) such as Windows and Linux has been around for some time. If the OS crashes, a kernel dump file is written to the disk for postmortem debugging ...

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A growing number of embedded developers are experimenting with the Linux kernel and system services as a basis for new application development. But those developers embarking on the use of Linux as a ...

Debugging applications based on a very long-instruction word (VLIW) DSP-CPU-based multimedia processor is a major challenge because the system designer is exploiting instruction-level parallelism (ILP ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...