[bip] Reproducible research

[Humberto Ortiz Zuazaga]

Giovanni Marco Dall'Olio wrote:

> I understand that it is impossible to write full suites of tests for
> an analysis or an experiment; but I was critizing the fact that nobody
> seems to care about this problem.
> If you look at the programs of any master or course in bioinformatics,
> you'll see that none ever explain what an unit test is, or give
> general ideas about the concept of testing.
> Also, it is very difficult to find articles or discussion over this
> topic, even online.

The software carpentry course, designed to teach scientists basic 
software engineering principles:

http://www.swc.scipy.org/

has chapters on:

# Version Control
# Automated Builds
# Quality Assurance
# Unit Testing

among others.

-- 
Humberto Ortiz-Zuazaga
Programmer-Archaeologist
UPR Bioinformatics Resource Center
http://www.hpcf.upr.edu/~humberto/