...explore approaches to meeting user needs, rather than to produce production ready code and functionality. The panel were also concerned at the balance of the team. In particular, the panel...
...and has refactored the code base for legibility. The code now is well structured. Test coverage has improved vastly from having no existing tests to around 80% coverage. The team...
...and isn’t too hard to learn from scratch (as I did). This R code extracts all the pageviews of the ‘/GetJob’ page for that particular day (all 379,000 of them)...
...two week sprint period. Technology The service team aim to release every sprint. The process is complicated by the infrastructure of the tax platform, meaning that getting code into production...
...team has completely rebuilt the state machine logic internally, and has refactored the code base for legibility. The code now is well structured. Test coverage has improved vastly from having...
...code The agency responsible for the delivery of the service has published the entire source code of the service to their GitHub account. This should ideally be moved to an...
...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)...
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