Systems Improvement

IMPROVING DEVELOPMENT EFFECTIVENESS & CODE QUALITY

We can help you establish software development processes based on modern tools and systems best suited to the unique aspects of your embedded software development. Improved systems and processes encourage effective development and ultimately contribute to more successful projects.

We can also help to introduce tools and techniques to improve code quality in order to effectively improve the quality of your product.

Key Focuses

CI & CD — Achieving development efficiency, code quality and speed to market with continuous integration and deployment.
Code management & development processes — Effective use of Git based code management and development flows for engineering teams.
Static Code Analysis — Using automated analysis tools to help achieve code quality.
Testing — Pragmatic investment in testing for the best end results.
Efficient hardware handling — Keeping development focused on the task at hand.

THOUGHTS ON SYSTEMS

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Resilience in Software Development - A Simple Checklist

As a development consultancy, we frequently find ourselves engaging with projects that are already well underway. This has led to a series of observations of some key indicators of whether good development practices are being used or not. These practices offer a form of resiliency - allowing for development to continue in spite of unexpected difficulties such as key staff leaving, late feature additions, rapid team size increases, and many others.

Small Scale PCB Manufacturing For Development Fixtures

Embedded systems often require one-off development fixtures to help support the development process. Made ad-hoc by hand, these fixtures are often fragile and can take valuable engineering time away from other important tasks. Changes to the PCB manufacturing ecosystem means creating and handling these fixtures doesn't need to be as painful, costly or as time consuming as it has been in the past.

Push-On-Green - Speeding up time to market

As devices move towards being always online, and software development moves away from a fixed release schedule to a more organic continuous development, it is often useful to move end-user releases for those devices to a similar track. Assuming you have good development infrastructure, and suitable testing, it may be worthwhile looking at combining that with continuous deployment to provide maximum speed to market.

Software Testing - Getting Product Out The Door Faster Cleaner Easier

Software testing is one of those amorphous terms that covers a massive range of possibilities. Are we talking about integration, unit, black box, white box, systems, acceptance, regression, load, performance? The list goes on. In our experience, this is almost always a worthwhile effort, with paybacks in testing generally exceeding those from other areas, assuming that a pragmatic approach to testing is taken.

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