Best Practices in Software Engineering - testing, documentation and licensing

Best Practices in Software Engineering. This course at the University of Bristol covers some of the more important concepts for professional software development, specifically documentation, unit testing and licensing.

📝 The course material is freely available at https://milliams.com/courses/software...
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This is an edited recording of a programming workshop we ran on the 6th of May, 2020. These courses are normally provided in a classroom environment, but due to COVID-19 restrictions, we have started delivering them online.

The session covers:
0:00:00 Introduction
0:09:14 Documentation
0:49:19 Licensing
1:09:47 Testing
1:35:11 Parametrising tests
1:42:35 Testing for errors
1:53:14 Doctests
1:57:58 Test fixtures
2:07:19 Summary

It was taught by Dr Matt Williams

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