Eating Your Own Dogfood (Testing Your Software Before the Scientists Break It)

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US-RSE Education & Training Seminar Series

US-RSE periodically presents technical talks and tutorials related to Education & Training for RSEs.

Event

The next technical talk of the US-RSE Education & Training Seminar Series will feature Jonathan Woodring “Eating Your Own Dogfood (Testing Your Software Before the Scientists Break It).” This event will take place Wednesday, August 28th at 1-3 PM ET, 12-2 PM CT, 11-1 PM MT, 10 AM - 12 PM PT

Abstract: One of the best ways to test your software is to become your #1 user. While this doesn’t catch every single bug, because your users are clever, it will catch many of them before they’ll ever see them. I’ll show how our integrated testing runs “the real world,” by continually exercising our software with actual scenarios. The benefits include: (1) being annoyed with your own software, so you’ll develop new features to assist the users (actual features, not “features”), (2) automatically writing the dreaded documentation that we all hate spending our time on, and (3) breaking your software before your users, saving you from answering (fewer) phone calls and emails.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Understanding testing, documentation, and feature development

Intended Audience: Software developers/engineers/scientists.

Attendees are expected to follow the US-RSE Code of Conduct.

Biography

Jon earned his PhD in computer science from The Ohio State University, specializing in computer graphics and scientific visualization. He has been a staff scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory since 2009, where he began his career as a research scientist, developing methods for scientific visualization and high performance computing. Currently, Jon develops and supports software tools for scientific simulation setup, primarily for creating “code links”: using the output of one simulation as the input to another.

Note

More information about this event can be found on the flyer.

Registration

You can register on Zoom for this technical talk.