Thanks Thomas,
It was an interesting meeting.
CircleCI looks like quite a nice way to do automated testing on open
source projects without having to do the work to set up your own CI
infrastructure.
Andy
On Fri, 29 Jul 2016, Thomas Kluyver via Hampshire wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> The next Southampton Python User Group talk will be a bit more hands on;
> it's best to bring a laptop if possible:
>
> Continuous Integration with CircleCI
>
> Date: 6 p.m. 4th August 2016
> Venue: Nuffield Theatre Room 1083 (6/1083)
> Speaker: Ryan Pepper, Alvaro Perez-Diaz, Uni of Soton
>
> As usual, refreshments will be provided before the talk, and everyone is
> welcome to join us in the pub afterwards.
>
> There will also be a chance to give brief lightning talks - perhaps
> about other tools for testing code. If there's something you'd like to
> tell people about, let me know!
>
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> Continuous integration (CI) is an integral part of modern software
> development. It is very useful to check that changes have not broken
> features in software in an unexpected way, and it would be very rare to
> find software developers based in companies not using at least some form
> of regular testing to ensure that regression does not occur. Major
> scientific software projects such as Numpy, Scipy and Jupyter are good
> examples of how to use CI in practice.
>
> In this talk, we'll give a brief introduction to continuous integration,
> how it can be used in scientific software development, and demonstrate
> how to set up CircleCI to automatically test an open source project
> which is written in Python and stored on GitHub. Bring a laptop with you
> if possible, to get the most out of the talk.
>
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