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Continuous Delivery of Embedded Systems
Mike Long@meekrosoft
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But first...
http://ndcoslo.com/page/embedded-c-cpp-and-dplus...Community Tuesday
Who is Mike Long?● Doer: Embedded software, CoDe & DevOps
● Trainer: git, jenkins, docker, TDD
● Speaker: coming to a conference near you!
● Manager: Co-owner Praqma, CEO Praqma Norway
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Agenda:- What is Continuous Delivery?- What are the challenges in Embedded?- What techniques can we take advantage
of?- How can we test embedded software?- Who has done this already?
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Professional software development1. Take a copy of the codebase for existing product2. Carefully document its current algorithms3. Add changes surrounded by ifdefs4. Test for months5. Commit the code as a new project that will “hopefully”
get merged to the in the future6. Compile on my laptop7. Ship!
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What is Continuous Delivery?
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Agile Manifesto
● Four doctrines, twelve Principles
# 1
# 7
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Continuous Integration
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The ideal Embedded process1. Fetch the latest source (which is up to date with
release)2. Branch, implement feature, test3. Push4. CI5. CD6. Canary deployment7. Real-time production feedback
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Release trains
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Release trains
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Challenges
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Solo work
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Fire and forget codebases?
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Production-like environment???
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Versioning
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The red thread of traceability
We want to know: what it is compatible with, what it depends on, where it was built, what its test results were, its source version, and the task that spawned the change
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Examples
myapplication-1.0.0-alpha+001.sha.5114f85
Artifact Name
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Examples
myapplication-1.0.0-alpha+001.sha.5114f85
Major.minor.patch
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Examples
myapplication-1.0.0-alpha+001.sha.5114f85
Prerelease version
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Examples
myapplication-1.0.0-alpha+001.sha.5114f85
Build number
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Examples
myapplication-1.0.0-alpha+001.sha.5114f85
git short SHA
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Examples
myapplication-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT+001.sha.5114f85
SNAPSHOT
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Build
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If your "build process" is the F5 key, you have a problem…..Get your build process out of the IDE and into a build script.
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What’s missing?
Traceability: Can I find out exactly the environment for this build?
Reproducibility: Can I build something from last year with the same results?
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A Traceability ecosystem
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Configuration as code
Linux slaveLinux
slaveLinux slaveLinux
slavesDockerfile
Vagrant file
Windowsslaves
Puppet file
WindowsslavesWindows
slaves
Jenkins Jobs
JobDSL
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Build in a box
Jenkins Master
ArtifactoryDocker container
Linux slaveLinux
slaveLinux slaveLinux
slaveLinux slaveLinux
slave
Windowsslave
Vagrant VM
WindowsslaveWindows
slaveWindowsslaveWindows
slave
PuppetMaster
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Testing
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Airbus engineers employed the latest and greatest formal methods, and provided model checking and formal proofs of all of their avionics code. Meanwhile, according to the story, Boeing performed extensive design review and testing, and made all their software engineers fly on the first test flights. The general upshot of the story was that most of us (it seemed) felt more comfortable flying on Boeing aircraft. (It would be interesting to see if that would still be the majority opinion in the software engineering community.)
https://www.cerias.purdue.edu/site/blog/post/short_random_thought_on_testing/#When:16:40:35Z
Eugene H. Spafford, Professor & Executive Director, Purdue University
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System Tests ✓
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System Tests- Control power- Program devices- Control Actuators- Sense results
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System Tests
Component Tests
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System Tests
Component Tests
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Test everywhere
Test on your host for:● Feedback speed, debuggingBut also test on target because:● Compilers/hardware are different● Endiness/overflow/underflow behave
differently● Ship them if you can!
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www.xethru.com
ASIC Quality – Continuous Delivery
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Pro Tips
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// #ifdef MY_PROD_V1
Avoid using the preprocessor for variants● It makes builds slow● Lowers cohesion● Also hinders understandability
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Only build your binaries once
Efficiency - time to feedbackSafety - ship what you test
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Amplify feedback loops
TDD
Red
RefactorGreen
Learn Measure
Build
Product
Data
Ideas
Continuous IntegrationContinuous DeliveryBDDAutomated DeploymentCustomer Feedback
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Dev Env is competitive advantage
Attrition vs. Late follower vs.
Unhappy customers vs.
RecruitmentFirst to marketRaving fandom
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Summary
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The researchers praised Tesla for the way the vehicle handled the
bogus commands and how the car maker responded to their findings.
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In late July, Fiat Chrysler issued a recall for more than 1.4 million vehicles after
hackers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek showed how to use bugs in the onboard software of the Jeep Cherokee to shut it
down remotely.
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Agenda:- What is Continuous Delivery? ✓- What are the challenges in Embedded? ✓- What techniques can we take advantage
of? ✓- How can we test embedded software? ✓- Who has done this already? ✓
