Unit 8: Software Maintenance and Quality Control

Learning Objectives

For businesses which provide software products and services, improved code quality leads to better user experiences, higher customer satisfaction and retention, and lower maintenance costs. In this unit, we'll learn ways to control and improve the quality of our applications.

Discussions and Notes

• Developer Collaboration:

  • The git Utility, revisited

  • Git Branch Operations, revisited

  • GitHub Pull Request (PR) Workflow

  • Code Reviews

• Code Style:

  • The autopep8 Package

• Code Documentation:

  • Python Docstrings

• Code Simplification and Refactoring

• Code Quality:

  • The Code Climate Platform

• Automated Testing:

  • The pytest Package

• Continuous Integration (CI):

  • The Travis CI Platform

Activities and Exercises

• "Developer Collaboration" Exercise

• "Codebase Cleanup" Exercise

• "Testing 1, 2, 3" Exercise

• "Continuous Integration 1, 2, 3" Exercise