Training on software testing

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This came up in the contect of internal training for RSEs looking for a language-agnostic idea of what good testing looks like and how it is generally structured.

Some RSE-flavoured resources listed here: https://intersect-training.org/training-links/

Topics that might not be included because they are covered elsewhere (these might be briefly mentioned but not the focus of this training, can give references to good resources):

• using specific testing frameworks & tools such as pytest, github actions
• defining differnet types of test
• test driven development?

Topics might include:

• when to use different types of test
• structuring your tests and test suite
• strategies to add tests to an existing codebase (e.g. strangler fig pattern?)
• how to motivate researchers to use tests