...intend to make the source code for the service available. Doing this earlier rather than later makes it considerably easier. In particular, be aware of separating out configuration from implementation,...
...aspects to the code, so effort should be made to code in the open and share as much as possible with the rest of DWP, government community and third parties....
...convincing explanation as to why this can’t be done for specific subsets of the source code). Code from the service has been published and is currently being reused by another...
...see all code open sourced, regardless of usefulness to a wider audience or not. The only exceptions are configuration management code, code that contain sensitive information (e.g. fraud detection components)...
...code open and reusable- point 15 The service team should continue the work to open their source code. Testing the end to end service - Point 17 Ensure the service...
...discussion with the Analytical Systems and Pipelines Hub on a training series on reproducible coding. Voluntary Application of the Code of Practice for Statistics: The Code of Practice for Statistics...
...look for specific accessibility content issues. We wrote it in Python, as it’s a GDS-supported programming language, and structured the code in a way that allowed us to write and...
...was standardised (e.g. 'Epsom & Ewell' was always named 'Epsom and Ewell'), an 'ONS name' table was imported into the database too. This table contained local authority names, ONS codes...
...This combination of different expertise helped ensure we understood the data and the process as well as the code, which we quickly realised was crucial in the initial phase of...
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