Tools for software development at COSY

Abstract

In 2018 a set of tools was made available at IKP-4 for software development at COSY.The goal is to have a centralized infrastructure to improve collaboration on code development, quality control and integration of software. In addition a central infrastructure for e.g. storage of manuals, decription of practices and conventions needed to be established, as in the past they were scattered over several storage systems or were available on paper only. The newly established tools are used to improve software work flow, but also for documentation and collaboration on scientific publications, as well as issue tracking for both software and hardware.Another usage case is the continuous integration, testing, and deployment of productive code at COSY.Additionally the development environment training delivered by Cosylab is discussed