Community Call: Last Night, Testing Saved my Life
December 5, 2019
To the uninitiated, software testing may seem variously boring, daunting or bogged down in obscure terminology. However, it has the potential to be enormously useful for people developing software at any level of expertise, and can often be put into practice with relatively little effort. We are aiming to address needs on a continuum, whether you are getting started with testing, or it’s already at the core of your development process. Read the announcement blog post for speaker details.
Resources
- Announcement blog post
- Collaborative notes
- Steffi LaZerte slides
- Rich FitzJohn slides
- Public forum discussion
- Chapter 1.10 Testing, in the rOpenSci software development guide
- Chapter 10 Tests, in R Packages, by Hadley Wickham and Jenny Bryan
- An Ode to Testing, my first review, by Charles T. Gray
- Packages for Testing your R Package, by Maëlle Salmon on the Locke Data blog
- Mocking is catching, on the R-hub blog
- HTTP testing in R - overview of tools and new features, by Scott Chamberlain for rOpenSci
- Test-Driven Data Analysis blog, recommended by Noam Ross
