Week 5: Coding, Testing..

Week 5 Materials

• Week 5 Slides

Week 5 Goals:

• Gaining perspective on what makes good data science
• Practice in code testing
• Preparing for failure
• Faculty Review Logistics
• Solution design sharing

Today’s timeline:

• 1:00 - 1:45 - Announcements and Perspectives on Coding Design
• 1:45 - 2:30 - Code Design and Testing
• 2:30 - 2:45 - Test Sharing
• 2:45 - 3:00 - Break
• 3:00 - 3:10 - Failure and how to handle it
• 3:10 - 3:30 - Faculty Review Logistics
• 3:30 - 4:00 - Solution Design Peer Review

What you should do before next week:

• Draft Testing Plan section of Design & Implementation Plan
• Prepare a 5 minute presentation
  • Cover slide
  • Background and motivation/significance (1-2 slides
  • Problem Statement (1 slide)
  • Objective (1 slide)
  • Solution Design (2-3 slides)

Resources for testing

• Jeff Perkel (2022) How to fix your scientific coding errors. Nature Technology Feature.

• DataONE Best Practices - Data Assurance

• Google Testing and Debugging in ML

• Fay et al. Engineering Production-Grade Shiny Apps Ch. 11 - Build yourself a safety net

• Taschuk and Wilson (2017) Ten simple rules for making research software more robust. PLOS Comp Bio.