A Firmware Engineer's New Year's Resolutions...

1) I will work hard to elicit correct specifications, insofar as humanly possible, before starting a project.


2) I will work with the hardware people to produce firmware-friendly hardware.

3) I will carefully document all of my code, including tests and prototypes, as prototypes have a nasty habit of becoming products.

4) I will collect metrics about bugs and examine their root causes.

5) I will carefully measure the real-time behavior of real-time code, like interrupt handlers, to insure adequate margin and to improve my time-domain estimates.

6) My tests will be extremely comprehensive, and will check boundary conditions.

7) I will petition management for funds for high-quality tools.

8) I will write warning-free code.

9) I will not use global variables unless there is no alternative.

10) I will continue to study the fascinating world of software engineering.


11) I'll keep having fun!

Wish you a happy and prosperous New Year !   :)
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