We are happy to see you here considering to contribute to IDEasy. Inside this folder you will find internal documentation for developers that like to contribute to IDEasy. We do not want to put too much burden onto people that like to help making IDEasy better and therefore live an open and welcoming culture appreciating your issues and PRs.
However, to make our lives easier, make your contribution being accepted faster, to support onboarding and for making things transparent we document our internal conventions and processes here in this folder.
To get started as a developer of IDEasy follow the developer setup.
To support cross-platform testing also consider testing Linux on Windows and if applicable testing Max in VM. You may also install Windows or other OS in a VM if you need to test the IDEasy installation process itself and retest it multiple times using VM snapshots without tweaking or even breaking your host OS.
Further, we documented JUnit-testing and integration-testing to help you properly testing your new code.