How To Set Up Continuous Integration to Make Your Code More Robust, More Maintainable, and Easier to Publish

Following on from Graham Lee's talk on automated testing, we will use GitHub actions to automate the testing of a small Python project. We will: recap why this might be a good idea; walk through setting up a workflow on GitHub; test our code against multiple Python versions on multiple operating systems; and integrate other services such as code coverage and automated documentation generation.

Dr Fergus Cooper is a member of the Oxford Research Software Engineering group, which he co-founded in 2018 after finishing a DPhil in the Mathematical Institute. His research background is computational biology where he developed agent-based models of the developing tooth placode. He is now a passionate advocate for software best practices in academia, and will talk to anyone about modern C++."