Principles

Research

SDC-Scissor is meant to be used for research in the first place. This means that the architecture of the tool must be highly modularized so that the development of new testing pipelines is easier and more productive.

Best Practices

The architecture and development of SDC-Scissor should be done by applying best practices such as:

• Use of appropriate design patterns

• Extensively testing on different levels:

  • Unit

  • System

• Conducting code reviews for each pull request

Continuous Integration

The development of SDC-Scissor integrates the code changes continuously to the main branch (ideally multiple times per day). Features branched will be directly integrated into the main branch after approval of the code reviewer. The merge will trigger a GitHub workflow and executes all the tests. The outcome of the test execution will be reported in the according badge on top of the README.md or on top of the Documentation homepage.