Thanks Andy!
Would anyone on this list be interested in doing a talk for a future
meeting? We're loosely focussed on Python, but we'd be very happy to
hear about other technologies that are useful for Python programmers,
interesting applications, and so forth. :-)
Best wishes,
Thomas
On Fri, Aug 5, 2016, at 12:34 PM, Andy Random via Hampshire wrote:
>
> 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:
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> > 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!
> >
> >
> > 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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