I am using TDD to implement a hardware-independent mock QCanBusDevice. We can use MockCanBusDevice in unit, integration and acceptance tests - without access to a hardware CAN bus. A terminal application can also use it in its own process to
Welcome to Episode 26 of My Newsletter on Qt Embedded Systems Last week, I gave my second interview to investors on Qt in Automotive. The biggest fear of the investors in both interviews was that the value gap between Qt
When I looked up the publishing date for this book, I was surprised to find out that the book is 11 years old. The content feels as if written today. The authors’ advice is as relevant as ever. I am
Welcome to Episode 25 of My Newsletter on Qt Embedded Systems I wish you, my dear readers, a happy, healthy and successful year 2022 🎉 2021 ended with a nice surprise. I was named Qt Champion in the Ambassador category 🙏 I
Almost all companies I worked with over the last 25 years had an oversupply of non-technical managers and an undersupply of technical experts in leadership positions. These companies build products with less value for the users and take longer
Welcome to Episode 24 of my newsletter on Qt Embedded Systems I have developed user interfaces (UIs) for machines, harvesters, cars and e-bikes for the last 15 years. The machines are engineering marvels. The UIs not so much. They
Although Qt comes with a unit-test framework QuickTest for QML code, hardly any QML GUIs are unit-tested, let alone developed with TDD (test-driven development). One reason is that many developers regard unit tests for GUI code as
Welcome to Episode 23 of my newsletter on Qt Embedded Systems! In October, I gave 6 legacy code workshops and 2 license compliance workshops, and started a new coaching project. I started the Win Without Pitching Bootcamp last week and
I gave a talk at Meeting Embedded 2021 on 4 November 2021. First, I introduced the hexagonal architecture (a.k.a. ports-and-adapters architecture) in general. Then, I showed a walking skeleton of the architecture for a harvester terminal.
Welcome to Episode 22 of my newsletter on Qt Embedded Systems! The big news of September is that Qt 6.2 LTS was released. Qt 6.2 is the first Qt 6 release that has feature parity with Qt 5
It depends! If a C++ source file includes the header inside an extern "C" section, the header is compiled as C++. If a C source file includes the header, the header is compiled as C. Hence, the header
Welcome to Episode 21 of my newsletter on Qt Embedded Systems! August was a pretty busy month for me. I gave four legacy code workshops as an add-on to James W. Grenning's TDD courses, extended my license