Course code: BARR-13

Years with company: 26

Years programming: 20

Primary programming language: ANSI C

Other programming languages: Assembly, C#, Visual Basic

Unit test harnesses: VectorCAST

Something else: I work for MSA.

Test practice now: VectorCAST for unit testing. Blackbox testing. White box testing. Independent verification testing.

Target system: My target system is typically ARM-Cortex-M cores right now for SIL3 certified gas detectors.

Dev tools: IAR Compilers, Bamboo build servers. VectorCAST unit test tools. SONARCube rules checkers.

Build time: 1-5 minutes

Coding standard: MSA coding standard we created ourselves.

Function too long: We try to achieve a complexity level of 10 or less for functions. This is not strictly enforced. I struggle with the limit of complexity of 10 vs. having multiple small functions and increasing the stack complexity of a design.

Code reviews: Right now code reviews are performed as pull requests using the GIT flow.

Code time: 40

Test time: 40

Debug time: 20

Favorite thing about dev: I like engineering a product and providing a robust design to production.

Least favorite thing about dev: I do not like that management thinks changing software is just a matter of a few key strokes and makes oversimplifies the change and verification processes that are required. Management changes tools we use thinking the tools are the issue.

Tdd knowledge: From what I understand this is when you write our unit tests first and then you write your code second in the process flow.

Why are you attending: I was asked to attend. I am looking for some ideas of how to make some improvements for my development work.