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I Stopped Testing Embedded Systems by Hand. Here's What Replaced It.

Everardo GarciaEverardo Garcia April 23, 2026

Everardo Garcia walks through the shift from manual, terminal-based system-level testing to automated tests that run during development. He shows how OpenHTF (a framework originally built at Google for manufacturing lines) plus a laptop, a USB cable, and ~150 lines of Python closes the functional testing gap most embedded teams carry, and how spec-driven prompting with GitHub Copilot makes writing plugs and phases fast enough to keep up.


I Stopped Testing Embedded Systems by Hand. Here's What Replaced It.

Everardo GarciaEverardo Garcia April 23, 2026

Everardo Garcia walks through the shift from manual, terminal-based system-level testing to automated tests that run during development. He shows how OpenHTF (a framework originally built at Google for manufacturing lines) plus a laptop, a USB cable, and ~150 lines of Python closes the functional testing gap most embedded teams carry, and how spec-driven prompting with GitHub Copilot makes writing plugs and phases fast enough to keep up.


The 2026 Embedded Online Conference