Hands-On Embedded Programming with C++17

All the best-laid plans

As with any project, there's the inevitable divide between the intended design and how it functions in reality. Even with the best planning and bountiful experience, there will always be unforeseen or unnoticed issues. The best you can do is to be as well-prepared as possible.

The first step is to have access to all of the available information for the target platform, understand the tools that are available, and have a solid development and testing plan. We ran through many of these aspects in this book already.

In this appendix, we'll summarize a number of best practices that should help you avoid some of the more common issues.