[bip] Reproducible research

[C. Titus Brown]

On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 02:12:12PM -0400, Humberto Ortiz Zuazaga wrote:
-> 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.

Yep, and you can also look here for some additional pointers:

	http://ivory.idyll.org/articles/advanced-swc/

--titus
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C. Titus Brown, ctb at msu.edu