First off, thanks for taking the time to contribute! ❤️
All types of contributions are encouraged and valued. See the Table of Contents for different ways to help and details about how this project handles them. Please make sure to read the relevant section before making your contribution. It will make it a lot easier for us maintainers and smooth out the experience for all involved. The community looks forward to your contributions. 🎉
And if you like the project, but just don't have time to contribute, that's fine. There are other easy ways to support the project and show your appreciation, which we would also be very happy about:
- Star the project
- Tweet about it
- Refer this project in your project's readme
- Mention the project at local meetups and tell your friends/colleagues
- Code of Conduct
- I Have a Question
- I Want To Contribute
- Reporting Bugs
- Suggesting Enhancements
- Your First Code Contribution
- Improving The Documentation
- Styleguides
- Commit Messages
- Join The Project Team
This project and everyone participating in it is governed by the TestMonitor Code of Conduct. By participating, you are expected to uphold this code.
If you want to ask a question, we assume that you have read the available documentation.
Before you ask a question, it is best to search for existing issues that might help you. In case you have found a suitable issue and still need clarification, you can write your question in this issue. It is also advisable to search the internet for answers first.
If you then still feel the need to ask a question and need clarification, we recommend the following:
- Open an issue.
- Provide as much context as you can about what you're running into.
- Provide project and platform versions (nodejs, npm, etc), depending on what seems relevant.
We will then take care of the issue as soon as possible.
When contributing to this project, you must agree that you have authored 100% of the content, that you have the necessary rights to the content and that the content you contribute may be provided under the project licence.
A good bug report shouldn't leave others needing to chase you up for more information. Therefore, we ask you to investigate carefully, collect information and describe the issue in detail in your report. Please complete the following steps in advance to help us fix any potential bug as fast as possible.
- Make sure that you are using the latest version.
- Determine if your bug is really a bug and not an error on your side e.g. using incompatible environment components/versions (Make sure that you have read the documentation. If you are looking for support, you might want to check this section).
- To see if other users have experienced (and potentially already solved) the same issue you are having, check if there is not already a bug report existing for your bug or error.
- Also make sure to search the internet (including Stack Overflow) to see if users outside of the GitHub community have discussed the issue.
- Collect information about the bug:
- Stack trace (Traceback)
- OS, Platform and Version (Windows, Linux, macOS, x86, ARM)
- Version of the interpreter, compiler, SDK, runtime environment, package manager, depending on what seems relevant.
- Possibly your input and the output
- Can you reliably reproduce the issue? And can you also reproduce it with older versions?
You must never report security related issues, vulnerabilities or bugs including sensitive information to the issue tracker, or elsewhere in public. Instead sensitive bugs must be sent by email to .
We use GitHub issues to track bugs and errors. If you run into an issue with the project:
- Open an issue. (Since we can't be sure at this point whether it is a bug or not, we ask you not to talk about a bug yet and not to label the issue.)
- Explain the behavior you would expect and the actual behavior.
- Please provide as much context as possible and describe the reproduction steps that someone else can follow to recreate the issue on their own. This usually includes your code. For good bug reports you should isolate the problem and create a reduced test case.
- Provide the information you collected in the previous section.
Once it's filed:
- The project team will label the issue accordingly.
- A team member will try to reproduce the issue with your provided steps. If there are no reproduction steps or no obvious way to reproduce the issue, the team will ask you for those steps.
- If the team is able to reproduce the issue, it will be acknowledged accordingly, and the issue will be left to be implemented by someone.
This section guides you through submitting an enhancement suggestion for this project, including completely new features and minor improvements to existing functionality. Following these guidelines will help maintainers and the community to understand your suggestion and find related suggestions.
- Make sure that you are using the latest version.
- Read the documentation carefully and find out if the functionality is already covered, maybe by an individual configuration.
- Perform a search to see if the enhancement has already been suggested. If it has, add a comment to the existing issue instead of opening a new one.
- Find out whether your idea fits with the scope and aims of the project. It's up to you to make a strong case to convince the project's developers of the merits of this feature. Keep in mind that we want features that will be useful to the majority of our users and not just a small subset. If you're just targeting a minority of users, consider writing an add-on/plugin library.
Enhancement suggestions are tracked as Github issues.
- Use a clear and descriptive title for the issue to identify the suggestion.
- Provide a step-by-step description of the suggested enhancement in as many details as possible.
- Describe the current behavior and explain which behavior you expected to see instead and why. At this point you can also tell which alternatives do not work for you.
- You may want to include screenshots or screen recordings which help you demonstrate the steps or point out the part which the suggestion is related to.
- Explain why this enhancement would be useful to other users. You may also want to point out the other projects that solved it better and which could serve as inspiration.
If this is your first time contributing code:
- Read the README.md. Most projects include setup instructions, tool requirements, and usage examples in the README. Please read it carefully before proceeding.
- Fork the repository and create your branch from
main(or another active base branch). - Set up the development environment. Typically this involves:
- Installing dependencies via a package manager (e.g.,
npm install,composer install, etc.) - Running tests locally
- Using the preferred IDE or tools for linting and formatting
- Installing dependencies via a package manager (e.g.,
- Make your changes and include tests when applicable.
- Ensure your changes pass linting and CI checks.
- Push your branch and open a pull request.
We appreciate all contributions, large or small.
We appreciate corrections and improvements to the documentation, even for minor issues like typos or outdated references.
You can help by:
- Fixing typos, grammar, or formatting issues
- Adding missing usage examples
- Improving clarity and structure
- Updating outdated instructions
If you're unsure whether your documentation changes are helpful, feel free to open a discussion issue first.
We prefer clear and descriptive commit messages. A good commit message helps maintain a useful project history.
Try to follow this structure:
- Short summary (max ~50 characters)
- Describe your action
- Mention the affected files or code
- Keep commits small
Examples:
- Added README.md
- Fixed typo in installation instructions
- Updated dependency X
This guide is based on contributing.md, with modifications for TestMonitor's public repositories.