Workflow testing vs Notebook tutorials - help

[nomadscientist]

Workflow testing is great for automatically determining whether a given workflow/tutorial works on a given server.

However, Notebook based tutorials (example: https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/topics/single-cell/tutorials/alevin-commandline/tutorial.html) don't have 'traditional workflows'. Nevertheless, we need the CORRECT version of a given interactive tool (JupyLab, etc.) to exist in order for the tutorial to work.

How can this check (does this correct tool version exist?) be automated?

[bgruening]

@nomadscientist do you know why the notebook version matters? Since I'm maintaining the containers I guess, maybe I can improve something on my end to not break them (this often)?

[nomadscientist]

Yes - we frequently had issues of tutorials working or not working depending on the version of the IT notebook tools.
Like, I suspect there are ways to make anything work on any version, however, troubleshooting that across a cohort of students (or asynchronously with students) is tough - so we need to version control the notebooks too.

[bgruening]

I would be interested to know what went wrong. Was it dependencies that have been assumed to be installed?

You can always add a version to the tool ID, this should work as for every normal tool.