Another efficient way to speed up the development is limiting the interaction, as much as possible, with the actual target. This is of course not always possible, especially when developing device drivers that require to be tested on actual hardware, but tools and methodologies to partially test the software directly on the development machine exist.
Portions of code that are not CPU-specific can be compiled for the host machine architecture and run directly, as long as their surroundings are properly abstracted to simulate the real environment. The software to test can be as small as a single function, and in this case a unit test can be written specifically for the development architecture. Unit tests are in general small ...
