Links

References

eCos - The embedded configurable operating system by Cygnus Solutions (Wikipedia)
Manual: The eCos Component Writer’s Guide, by Bart Veer and John Dallaway, published in 2001, available from eCos Documentation.
Book: Embedded software development with eCos, by Anthony J. Massa, published in 2003 at Prentice Hall, available from Amazon
Book: Software Build Systems: Principles and Experience, by Peter Smith, published in 2011 at Addison Wesley, available from Amazon
IEEE Std 830-1998: IEEE Recommended Practice for Software Requirements Specifications, published in 1998
CMSIS-Pack - Arm mechanism to install software, device support, APIs, and example projects

Distribution management systems

OpenEmbedded - the build framework for embedded Linux (with more detail in the Yocto documentation)
BitBake User Manual
Gentoo Development Guide
MacPorts Guide
Arch PKGBUILD
NPM - the package manager for JS (special interest for the packet.json format)
yotta - mbed module manager

IoT development environments

Build tools

For an exhaustive list, see Wikipedia.

Apache Maven (written in Java, XML configuration files)
SCons (configuration files are Python scripts)
RAKE - Ruby Make (tasks and dependencies in Ruby)
buildr - Apache Buildr is a build system for Java-based applications
Gradle (written in Groovy)
CMake (written in C++; uses native builders like make)
Waf (a build tool written in Python)
GNU Make (the classical tool; hopeless for folders with spaces)

Continuous integration

For an exhaustive list see Wikipedia.

Hudson (the original Sun project, donated by Oracle to the Eclipse Foundation)
Jenkins (the more active fork, backed by the project creator)
Travis (the GitHub preferred solution, very good integration)

JavaScript resources

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