How to contribute

How to contribute?

Dream about how Cobertura could be! Drop us ideas about new Cobertura features and improvements to the mailing list!

• check Cobertura Architecture page, so that your contribution aligns with those principles. If you have better ideas, discuss and submit them!
• if submitting patches, always provide a test about it.
• if thinking about new features, consider value it delivers to the project and in which cases it would be useful. Focus on value.

Do you have just some free minutes?

• Contribute by fixing Findbugs and PMD issues
• Add tests
• Document code! Cobertura code has little javadocs, which makes it difficult for new people to get quickly involved in the project. Documenting code is a great way to learn and help others.
• Help us fixing bugs
• Implement new features

How can I contribute as a

tester?

• Improve and modernize existing tests
• Check our coverage reports and add more of them!
• Bring new testing approaches and new kinds of tests: ex.: BDD, performance tests, etc.

developer?

• help us fixing reported bugs as well as Findbugs and PMD issues
• refactor existing code to make it more maintainable
• take over some of the roadmap tasks