Papers & Presentations
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Feature-Driven Design Using TDD and Mocks
Top-down design has long been talked about as a very efficient way of developing an embedded system. Although, many attempts at actually implementing a real product in this fashion has led to disaster since code interacting from a high-level down to a low-level interface to hardware registers begs to know how to interface to these hardware layers, thus sending the developer on a downward spiral toward implementing a bottom-up design, unfortunately breaking the original intent. We present a design methodology, Feature-Driven Design, that focus on the implementation of features instead of modules of code that gives way to architectures that evolve naturally and are much easier to understand and maintain. This way of development is fueled by unit test frameworks and automatically generated mocks, so that that designs can materialize from high level ideas and iterative refinement.
