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 (a free service for storing source code) + Doxygen ( a free documentation standard/parser) + 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. But it will show you how to make your existing libraries live long fruitful lives as they age!