...help users quickly log the information necessary to send their sample (e.g. ‘farm animal health tracking’ for ‘surveillance’, ‘sample information’ for ‘submission’, ‘to help us improve future testing’ for ‘test...
...tests for your code. Instead of spending time configuring your test suite, we have set up the pytest framework for you, as well as coverage.py for code coverage, so you...
...for a fix to live are in under an hour without the need for downtime releases. Design To compensate for no Beta, the service team have carried out intensive user...
...user research and analytics. Make source code open and reusable - point 15 For beta assessment the panel expect to see steps taken for this project to be coded in...
...the Department for Education (DfE) uses an extended set of codes to record the ethnicity of students and teachers based around the 2001 Census classifications. Having these detailed ethnicity codes...
...output. Designing such a system for GOV.UK required considering a number of different problem areas to find the best trade-offs for GOV.UK itself, for GDS, and for similar projects within...
...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...
...do not recommend testing with non-working elements. Efficient testing, happens when a thin, horizontal slice through the interaction is prioritised for one user group (e.g. searching for local schools for...
...between policy and implementation is a concern for the assessment panel. In particular, the perceived need for secrecy which has hampered the user research portion of the project and prevented...
...with them to ensure that their non-repudiation requirements will be met. Coding in the Open The team are committed to open sourcing the code for the service from the outset....
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