# The Well-Automated Arduino Library ## Overview ![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/050/299/medium800/maker_business_Tessa-Pride.png?1516308275) Writing software is like gardening - the flowers are beautiful but you're going to spend a lot of time weeding! Except instead of weeding, its keeping up to date with new frameworks, operating systems and dependancies. It's a ton of work! So why not make it easy on your self with automation? In this guide we'll go through how to use [GitHub](https://github.com/) (a free service for storing source code) + [Doxygen](http://doxygen.org) ( a free documentation standard/parser) + [TravisCI.org](http://TravisCI.org) (a free service for continuous integration/testing) To automatically document and test your code. _In specific_, we'll be showing how to automate wide-range compilation tests for an Arduino library to make sure that updates to the Arduino IDE, language, and board support packages don't end up breaking builds. _In general_, the same steps can be used for any codebase, including every-day source code projects - Arduino and otherwise! (But, it's really good for Arduino because we have scripts that do a lot of work for you already written) This guide doesn't teach you how to write code, or how to write a library. 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