Seeing the Light with Refactoring and Testing: A guide for the data professional

This is an online event hosted by Crowdcast - please see the link below. You will need to register for the event there.

Speaker: Richie Morrisroe

• Tired of re-running scripts?
• Confused when you return to a project/analysis six months later?
• Mystified by the decisions that others (including past you) have made in your code-base?
• Tormented by mysterious failures?

This talk is for the practical data person who doesn't have time for software engineering, but whose output is code.

We'll cover the motivation, and some definitions of legacy code;
followed by a pitch for the tools to solve these problems: refactoring
and testing; concluded with some advice on a better strategy for your
future projects (Test-Driven Development).

Richie has been fighting with legacy code (often his own) for
many years, and has recently found a religion that helps him to make
sense of all the complexity of modern data and software. Join him on a
journey to happiness and enlightment.