Articles in the 2023 category

1. QAnvas and QAD: Streamlining UI Testing for Embedded Systems

   Discover the latest updates to Codethink's QAD tool, including QAnvas Web UI, keyboard API, ILM optimizations, and static linking for improved testing.

2. Outreachy: Supporting the open source community through mentorship programmes

   Sam Thursfield, Software Engineer at Codethink has given up his time to become an open source mentor for Outreachy.

3. Using Git LFS and fast-import together

   Recently, we worked on some mirroring software using Lorry, which is a tool we developed at Codethink as part of our Software Mirroring Solution. Lorry mirrors git repos, and can also mirror other types of repo such as Subversion and Bazaar by converting them to Git.

4. Testing in a Box: Streamlining Embedded Systems Testing

   Codethink has been developing a number of tools and processes in order to automate as much of the testing pipeline for embedded systems as possible.

5. SDV Europe: What Codethink has planned

   Codethink is excited to announce its attendance at the upcoming SDV Europe conference in Berlin from November 26th to November 28th.

6. How do Hardware Security Modules impact the automotive sector? The final blog in a three part discussion

   The third part of a blog series, discussing HSM-backed security requirements and how we analyse the tradeoffs offered by modern options.

7. How do Hardware Security Modules impact the automotive sector? Part two of a three part discussion

   The 2nd part of a blog series, discussing HSM-backed security requirements and how we analyze the tradeoffs offered by modern options.

8. How do Hardware Security Modules impact the automotive sector? Part one of a three part discussion

   As we work increasingly with systems that have HSM-backed security requirements, we analyze the tradeoffs offered by modern options.

9. Automated Kernel Testing on RISC-V Hardware

   Continuing our work on robust testing in support of long-term maintainability, we present a testing pipeline that makes use of both LAVA and OpenQA to perform automated kernel tests on RISC-V hardware.

10. Automated end-to-end testing for Android Automotive on Hardware

    Codethink has automated some end-to-end testing of Android Automotive on our public openQA instance.

11. GUADEC 2023

    GUADEC 2023 has been another great event for the GNOME community.

12. Embedded Open Source Summit 2023

    In June, this year, a number of Codething’s attended the Embedded Open Source Summit (EOSS) in Prague.

13. RISC-V: Exploring a Bug in Stack Unwinding

    On one of our RISC-V projects, we were recently debugging a complex driver probing sequence in the U-Boot bootloader. Along the way we improved the debugging facilities available for U-Boot on RISC-V, specifically allowing developers and system integrators to see the callstack in the case that there is a crash during the early boot sequence.

14. Adding RISC-V Vector Cryptography Extension support to QEMU

    A dive into our work to add further support for vector cryptography in RISC-V with QEMU!

15. Introducing Our New Open-Source Tool: Quality Assurance Daemon

    Codethink's latest FOSS contribution in automated hardware testing. This article will talk about our recent tool named Q.A.D. and its impact on end-user blackbox hardware testing.

16. Achieving Long-Term Maintainability with Open Source

    Learn to achieve long-term maintainability in embedded software with practical open source tools and best practices for effective support.

17. FOSDEM 2023

    As in years past, Codethink will again be at the FOSDEM conference! An official sponsor of the event, we are pleased that more than 30 Codethings will be present and participating.

18. PyPI Security: How to Safely Install Python Packages

    PyPI is a popular platform for sharing Python libraries. This article offers tips for safe use, considering recent malware attacks on the platform.