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title: "Continuous Integration and Systems Engineering"
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  - name: Anson Biggs
    url: https://ansonbiggs.com
date: 09-27-2021
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categories:
  - Systems Engineering
  - Capstone
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Working on a complex project that spans multiple domains can be really challenging for a small team. The small team size makes it hard not to keep every team member completely up to date on the inner workings of every system but that can add a ton of overhead and make progress slow to a halt. My [Capstone](https://projects.ansonbiggs.com/#category:Capstone) team makes this even harder since all but one of us are Astronautical Engineers. Astronautical is just a fancy way of saying "Systems, but every problem is a satellite" so a project like ours that has a massive Embedded software aspect can be really challenging since the most important part of the project is essentially a black box to a majority of the team.

To combat most of the team having zero knowledge of writing C++ for a microcontroller I opted to use Gitlab's CI to build and post results for every single commit that the repository sees. So far this has worked really well. The people in charge of other subsystems can look at the readme of the GitLab repo and see
