TY - JOUR T1 - wft4galaxy: A Workflow Tester for Galaxy JF - bioRxiv DO - 10.1101/132001 SP - 132001 AU - Marco Enrico Piras AU - Luca Pireddu AU - Gianluigi Zanetti Y1 - 2017/01/01 UR - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/04/28/132001.abstract N2 - Motivation Workflow managers for scientific analysis provide a high-level programming platform facilitating standardization, automation, collaboration and access to sophisticated computing resources. The Galaxy workflow manager provides a prime example of this type of platform. As compositions of simpler tools, workflows effectively comprise specialized computer programs implementing often very complex analysis procedures. To date, no simple way exists to automatically test Galaxy workflows and ensure their correctness.Results With wft4galaxy we offer a tool to bring automated testing to Galaxy workflows, making it feasible to bring continuous integration to their development and ensuring that defects are detected promptly. wft4galaxy can be easily installed as a regular Python program or launched directly as a Docker container – the latter reducing installation effort to a minimum.Availability wft4galaxy is available online at https://github.com/phnmnl/wft4galaxy.Supplementary information: Supplementary information is available at http://wft4galaxy.readthedocs.io. ER -