Contributing, testing, and development guides
Quick Reference: Contributing | Testing Guide | Code of Conduct
The development/ directory contains documentation for contributing to the project, understanding development standards, and working with the codebase.
| File | Purpose | Audience |
|---|---|---|
contributing.md |
Contribution guidelines and process | Contributors |
code-of-conduct.md |
Community standards and behavior | All participants |
security.md |
Security policy and vulnerability reporting | All users |
roadmap.md |
Development roadmap and future plans | Maintainers, contributors |
testing-guide.md |
Testing framework guide | Developers |
testing-with-credentials.md |
Testing with external service credentials | Developers |
coverage-gaps.md |
Test coverage gap analysis | Developers |
contribution-map.md |
Pre-contribution overlap check and shape routing | Contributors |
optional-dependencies.md |
Optional dependency capability matrix | Developers |
no-mocks-http-testing.md |
No-mocks HTTP testing with pytest-httpserver |
Developers |
code-review-checklist.md |
Eight-criterion review checklist | Reviewers |
validation_gates.md |
Validation gate stages and enforcement | Developers |
→ Read Contributing - Contribution guidelines
→ Study Testing Guide - Testing framework
→ Follow Security - Security policy
→ Review Code of Conduct - Community guidelines
→ Check Roadmap - Development plans
../core/workflow.md- Development workflow../best-practices/best-practices.md- Best practices../architecture/- Architecture documentation
../documentation-index.md- documentation index../README.md- Documentation hub overview