Clean coding thesis

Scientific software is often experimental and thus messy, undocumented, not reusable. As a given piece of software grows in user count, though, it can benefit in applying development best practices which are well-known in the industry setting. This thesis will discuss a selection of these practices and show their application for a python project named GWFish, a Fisher matrix code used for gravitational wave data analysis.

This thesis is written for the Galilean school of higher studies (SGSS). It is in Markdown, and it can be compiled to a PDF file with pandoc; after cloning the repo just run

make

All the code necessary to run the examples in the Testing and Refactoring chapters is contained in the scripts/ folder.