Testing on The Carpentries

A New Lesson on Testing

Sun, 22 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

Katy Huff has just posted a new lesson on testing and continuous integration with Python drawn in part from the book that she and Anthony Scopatz recently published. There's a lot of useful material in here, all of it tested in the classroom—please check it out.

Test-Driven Data Analysis

Thu, 19 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

My former colleague Nick Radcliffe has started posting a series of article on test-driven data analysis, in which he explores systematic ways of checking whether one-off data analyses are correct. It'll be really interesting to see how the series unfolds, and comments on the posts would be very welcome.

Close Enough Redux

Fri, 17 Apr 2015 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

Back in October, we explained why we don't teach testing in Software Carpentry workshops. In response, Ian Hawke has put together a really nice series of articles about how he would test a small numerical program. It's great content, and it also shows yet again how Jupyter (formerly the IPython Notebook) is changing the way scientists create and share ideas.

Close Enough for Scientific Work

Tue, 18 Nov 2014 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

The discussion around last month's post "Why We Don't Teach Testing (Even Though We'd Like To)" has been one of the most interesting in Software Carpentry's history. Inspired by that, and by discussion at WSSSPE 2.0, we are launching a collaborative book project called Close Enough for Scientific Work in which scientists will show one another how they test their software.

Contributions should be aimed at sophomores in science and engineering, and each should be sized to fit a one-hour lecture. While the format of each entry will vary according to its content, we expect most will follow this template: