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MicroPython Projects

By : Jacob Beningo
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MicroPython Projects

By: Jacob Beningo

Overview of this book

With the increasing complexity of embedded systems seen over the past few years, developers are looking for ways to manage them easily by solving problems without spending a lot of time on finding supported peripherals. MicroPython is an efficient and lean implementation of the Python 3 programming language, which is optimized to run on microcontrollers. MicroPython Projects will guide you in building and managing your embedded systems with ease. This book is a comprehensive project-based guide that will help you build a wide range of projects and give you the confidence to design complex projects spanning new areas of technology such as electronic applications, automation devices, and IoT applications. While building seven engaging projects, you'll learn how to enable devices to communicate with each other, access and control devices over a TCP/IP socket, and store and retrieve data. The complexity will increase progressively as you work on different projects, covering areas such as driver design, sensor interfacing, and MicroPython kernel customization. By the end of this MicroPython book, you'll be able to develop industry-standard embedded systems and keep up with the evolution of the Internet of Things.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
11
Downloading and Running MicroPython Code

Developing an Application Test Harness

In the previous chapter, we developed several modules that will be used in an application project to perform I/O functionality and interact with a user. The question, though, is how can we be certain that those modules we created actually work? We created several tests, but if we make any changes to them, we have to rerun those tests manually. By doing this, we'll find that it is easy to overlook a potential bug. Manual testing is not just time-consuming but also error-prone.

In this chapter, we are going to develop an application test harness that we can use to test our MicroPython modules and ensure they have the fewest number of bugs.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

  • What a test harness is and why we would want to use one
  • Requirements for developing a test harness
  • Test harness design
  • Test harness construction...