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Talks

Mutation Testing

Lizzie Salmon

Lizzie Salmon

Research Software Engineer

An introduction to mutation testing, its benefits for improving code quality, and how to implement it in a frontend framework project.
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Examples used in the talk utilise Stryker for JavaScript for mutation testing.

Numba and Bitmasks

An introduction to using Numba for performance optimization in Python, with an example of the efficiency of bitmask operations.

Message Passing Interface

An overview of MPI and its applications with a focus on using it with Python for simple parallel computing tasks.

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