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Forge Your Future with Open Source
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Forge Your Future with Open Source

by VM Brasseur
October 2018
Intermediate to advanced
224 pages
6h 14m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Test Your Contribution

As you’re creating your contribution, make sure you test to confirm that it works at all (let alone does what you think it will). You might laugh, but a lot of highly skilled and experienced contributors have been tripped up by assuming their contribution will work only to learn after submitting it that the contribution is broken or totally wrong. Testing adds time up front but saves it later on. Testing should be continuous throughout the development of your contribution, but is especially important before you submit your contribution to the project.

Regardless of the type of contribution you’re creating, test it against the appropriate version of the project to make sure it works as expected. If your contribution is ...

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