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Automatic cross version compatibility testing

Ben Clifford

Abstract

As Academy moves towards supporting more persistent agents shared among many users, compatibility between different versions of Academy is going to become more important. Ben will talk about some recent work he's done on automated testing to help stop accidental breakage and to help more clearly define expectations.

About the speaker

Ben Clifford is a long time contributor and has been programming distributed systems in and around Globus Labs since the late 20th century.

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