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# How to become a contributor and submit your own code
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## Contributor License Agreements
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We'd love to accept your patches! Before we can take them, we
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have to jump a couple of legal hurdles.
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Please fill out either the individual or corporate Contributor License Agreement
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(CLA).
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* If you are an individual writing original source code and you're sure you
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own the intellectual property, then you'll need to sign an
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[individual CLA](https://developers.google.com/open-source/cla/individual).
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* If you work for a company that wants to allow you to contribute your work,
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then you'll need to sign a
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[corporate CLA](https://developers.google.com/open-source/cla/corporate).
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Follow either of the two links above to access the appropriate CLA and
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instructions for how to sign and return it. Once we receive it, we'll be able to
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accept your pull requests.
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## Contributing A Patch
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1. Submit an issue describing your proposed change to the
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[issue tracker](https://github.com/google/googletest).
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1. Please don't mix more than one logical change per submittal,
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because it makes the history hard to follow. If you want to make a
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change that doesn't have a corresponding issue in the issue
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tracker, please create one.
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1. Also, coordinate with team members that are listed on the issue in
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question. This ensures that work isn't being duplicated and
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communicating your plan early also generally leads to better
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patches.
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1. If your proposed change is accepted, and you haven't already done so, sign a
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Contributor License Agreement (see details above).
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1. Fork the desired repo, develop and test your code changes.
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1. Ensure that your code adheres to the existing style in the sample to which
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you are contributing.
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1. Ensure that your code has an appropriate set of unit tests which all pass.
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1. Submit a pull request.
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If you are a Googler, it is preferable to first create an internal change and
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have it reviewed and submitted, and then create an upstreaming pull
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request here.
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## The Google Test and Google Mock Communities ##
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The Google Test community exists primarily through the
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[discussion group](http://groups.google.com/group/googletestframework)
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and the GitHub repository.
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Likewise, the Google Mock community exists primarily through their own
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[discussion group](http://groups.google.com/group/googlemock).
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You are definitely encouraged to contribute to the
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discussion and you can also help us to keep the effectiveness of the
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group high by following and promoting the guidelines listed here.
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### Please Be Friendly ###
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Showing courtesy and respect to others is a vital part of the Google
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culture, and we strongly encourage everyone participating in Google
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Test development to join us in accepting nothing less. Of course,
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being courteous is not the same as failing to constructively disagree
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with each other, but it does mean that we should be respectful of each
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other when enumerating the 42 technical reasons that a particular
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proposal may not be the best choice. There's never a reason to be
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antagonistic or dismissive toward anyone who is sincerely trying to
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contribute to a discussion.
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Sure, C++ testing is serious business and all that, but it's also
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a lot of fun. Let's keep it that way. Let's strive to be one of the
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friendliest communities in all of open source.
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As always, discuss Google Test in the official GoogleTest discussion group.
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You don't have to actually submit code in order to sign up. Your participation
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itself is a valuable contribution.
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## Style
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To keep the source consistent, readable, diffable and easy to merge,
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we use a fairly rigid coding style, as defined by the [google-styleguide](https://github.com/google/styleguide) project. All patches will be expected
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to conform to the style outlined [here](https://google.github.io/styleguide/cppguide.html).
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## Requirements for Contributors ###
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If you plan to contribute a patch, you need to build Google Test,
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Google Mock, and their own tests from a git checkout, which has
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further requirements:
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* [Python](https://www.python.org/) v2.3 or newer (for running some of
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the tests and re-generating certain source files from templates)
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* [CMake](https://cmake.org/) v2.6.4 or newer
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* [GNU Build System](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Build_System)
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including automake (>= 1.9), autoconf (>= 2.59), and
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libtool / libtoolize.
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## Developing Google Test ##
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This section discusses how to make your own changes to Google Test.
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### Testing Google Test Itself ###
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To make sure your changes work as intended and don't break existing
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functionality, you'll want to compile and run Google Test's own tests.
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For that you can use CMake:
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mkdir mybuild
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cd mybuild
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cmake -Dgtest_build_tests=ON ${GTEST_DIR}
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Make sure you have Python installed, as some of Google Test's tests
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are written in Python. If the cmake command complains about not being
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able to find Python (`Could NOT find PythonInterp (missing:
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PYTHON_EXECUTABLE)`), try telling it explicitly where your Python
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executable can be found:
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cmake -DPYTHON_EXECUTABLE=path/to/python -Dgtest_build_tests=ON ${GTEST_DIR}
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Next, you can build Google Test and all of its own tests. On \*nix,
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this is usually done by 'make'. To run the tests, do
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make test
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All tests should pass.
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### Regenerating Source Files ##
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Some of Google Test's source files are generated from templates (not
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in the C++ sense) using a script.
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For example, the
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file include/gtest/internal/gtest-type-util.h.pump is used to generate
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gtest-type-util.h in the same directory.
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You don't need to worry about regenerating the source files
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unless you need to modify them. You would then modify the
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corresponding `.pump` files and run the '[pump.py](googletest/scripts/pump.py)'
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generator script. See the [Pump Manual](googletest/docs/PumpManual.md).
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## Developing Google Mock ###
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This section discusses how to make your own changes to Google Mock.
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#### Testing Google Mock Itself ####
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To make sure your changes work as intended and don't break existing
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functionality, you'll want to compile and run Google Test's own tests.
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For that you'll need Autotools. First, make sure you have followed
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the instructions above to configure Google Mock.
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Then, create a build output directory and enter it. Next,
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${GMOCK_DIR}/configure # try --help for more info
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Once you have successfully configured Google Mock, the build steps are
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standard for GNU-style OSS packages.
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make # Standard makefile following GNU conventions
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make check # Builds and runs all tests - all should pass.
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Note that when building your project against Google Mock, you are building
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against Google Test as well. There is no need to configure Google Test
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separately.
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