Course code: CISCO-25

Years with company: 3

Years programming: 20

Primary programming language: C, Python

Other programming languages: C++, C#, Java, LUA, Bash

Unit test harnesses: Cppunit, Cpputest,Google Tests, JUnit, Nunit

Something else: I'm a SW engineer with 10 years job experience who wrote first program ~25 years ago. I mostly used C/C++ but I had job experience with Java SE, Java EE, C# and Android programming. I use Python for scripting and in the past for data analysis. I learned LUA scripting addons for World of Warcraft videogame and now I use it for testing in my company. In the past I worked on LTE-Advanced, Ansaldo STS (now Hitachi) train on-board systems, machine-to-machine and intelligent transport systems, high frequency trading on FPGAs and now I do programming on wireless controllers. Although I worked in different domains, my job has mostly been design and implementation of communication protocols for constrained devices.

Test practice now: Cpputest and Swift (a Cisco home-made LUA framework)

Target system: It's a range of Cisco proprietary devices having different platform. It has Linux running on them and Cisco IOS-XE.

Dev tools: Clang, Git, GitHub, Vim, Geany

Build time: 4-8 hours

Coding standard: Our programmers' guide is 1706 pages long

Function too long: When it does more than its name says or when a more meaningful name would include the string "_and_".

Code reviews: Code reviews are done using GitHub

Code time: 50

Test time: 40

Debug time: 10

Favorite thing about dev: I like design.

Least favorite thing about dev: Having to deal with legacy code.

Tdd knowledge: I know something about it, but I have never had the chance to practice it.

Why are you attending: I believe the topic is cool and I hope it will improve the way I develop SW.