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# Contributing
Contributions are highly welcome, however, except for very small changes, kindly file an issue and let's have a discussion before you open a pull request.
## Building the Project
Clone this repo:
git clone https://github.com/tonerdo/coverlet.git
cd coverlet
Building, testing, and packing use all the standard dotnet commands:
dotnet build
dotnet test /p:CollectCoverage=true /p:CoverletOutputFormat=opencover /p:Include="[coverlet.*]*"
dotnet pack
## Performance testing
There is a simple performance test for the hit counting instrumentation in the test project `coverlet.core.performancetest`. Build the project with the msbuild step above and then run:
dotnet test /p:CollectCoverage=true test/coverlet.core.performancetest/
The duration of the test can be tweaked by changing the number of iterations in the `[InlineData]` in the `PerformanceTest` class.
For more realistic testing it is recommended to try out any changes to the hit counting code paths on large, realistic projects. If you don't have any handy https://github.com/dotnet/corefx is an excellent candidate. [This page](https://github.com/dotnet/corefx/blob/master/Documentation/building/code-coverage.md) describes how to run code coverage tests for both the full solution and for individual projects with coverlet from nuget. Suitable projects (listed in order of escalating test durations):
* System.Collections.Concurrent.Tests
* System.Collections.Tests
* System.Reflection.Metadata.Tests
* System.Xml.Linq.Events.Tests
* System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Tests
Change to the directory of the library and run the msbuild code coverage command:
dotnet test /p:Coverage=true
To run with a development version of coverlet call `dotnet run` instead of the installed coverlet version, e.g.:
dotnet test /p:Coverage=true /p:CoverageExecutablePath="dotnet run -p C:\...\coverlet\src\coverlet.console\coverlet.console.csproj"