Continuous integration for concurrent MOOSE framework and application development on GitHub

Slaughter, Andrew E.; Peterson, John W.; Gaston, Derek R.; Permann, Cody J.; Andrs, David; Miller, Jason M.

doi:10.5334/jors.bx

Title: Continuous integration for concurrent MOOSE framework and application development on GitHub

Abstract

For the past several years, Idaho National Laboratory’s MOOSE framework team has employed modern software engineering techniques (continuous integration, joint application/framework source code repos- itories, automated regression testing, etc.) in developing closed-source multiphysics simulation software (Gaston et al., Journal of Open Research Software vol. 2, article e10, 2014). In March 2014, the MOOSE framework was released under an open source license on GitHub, significantly expanding and diversifying the pool of current active and potential future contributors on the project. Despite this recent growth, the same philosophy of concurrent framework and application development continues to guide the project’s development roadmap. Several specific practices, including techniques for managing multiple repositories, conducting automated regression testing, and implementing a cascading build process are discussed in this short paper. Furthermore, special attention is given to describing the manner in which these practices naturally synergize with the GitHub API and GitHub-specific features such as issue tracking, Pull Requests, and project forks.

Authors:

Slaughter, Andrew E. ^[1]; Peterson, John W. ^[1]; Gaston, Derek R. ^[1]; Permann, Cody J. ^[1]; Andrs, David ^[1]; Miller, Jason M. ^[1]

Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)

Publication Date:: Fri Nov 20 00:00:00 EST 2015

Research Org.:: Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE

OSTI Identifier:: 1245832

Report Number(s):: INL/JOU-15-34179
Journal ID: ISSN 2049-9647

Grant/Contract Number:: AC07-05ID14517

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Journal of Open Research Software

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 2049-9647

Publisher:: Software Sustainability Institute

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING; continuous integration; github; multiphysics

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                    Slaughter, Andrew E., Peterson, John W., Gaston, Derek R., Permann, Cody J., Andrs, David, and Miller, Jason M. Continuous integration for concurrent MOOSE framework and application development on GitHub.  United States: N. p., 2015. 
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                    Slaughter, Andrew E., Peterson, John W., Gaston, Derek R., Permann, Cody J., Andrs, David, & Miller, Jason M. Continuous integration for concurrent MOOSE framework and application development on GitHub.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.5334/jors.bx

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                    Slaughter, Andrew E., Peterson, John W., Gaston, Derek R., Permann, Cody J., Andrs, David, and Miller, Jason M. Fri .  
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  title        = {Continuous integration for concurrent MOOSE framework and application development on GitHub},

  author       = {Slaughter, Andrew E. and Peterson, John W. and Gaston, Derek R. and Permann, Cody J. and Andrs, David and Miller, Jason M.},

  abstractNote = {For the past several years, Idaho National Laboratory’s MOOSE framework team has employed modern software engineering techniques (continuous integration, joint application/framework source code repos- itories, automated regression testing, etc.) in developing closed-source multiphysics simulation software (Gaston et al., Journal of Open Research Software vol. 2, article e10, 2014). In March 2014, the MOOSE framework was released under an open source license on GitHub, significantly expanding and diversifying the pool of current active and potential future contributors on the project. Despite this recent growth, the same philosophy of concurrent framework and application development continues to guide the project’s development roadmap. Several specific practices, including techniques for managing multiple repositories, conducting automated regression testing, and implementing a cascading build process are discussed in this short paper. Furthermore, special attention is given to describing the manner in which these practices naturally synergize with the GitHub API and GitHub-specific features such as issue tracking, Pull Requests, and project forks.},

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  year         = {Fri Nov 20 00:00:00 EST 2015},

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