How to Contribute

This repo welcomes contributions and suggestions.

Prerequisites:

Feature branches feature/<Issue Number> e.g. feature/12345 - Issue Number is the number of the issue item or work item in the GitHub issues page or project board. The issue number should be 5 digits, For example: if your issue number is 7 then your feature branch will be feature/00007.
Hotfix branches hotfix/<Issue Number> e.g. hotfix/52679 - Issue Number is the number of Bug/Issue Item in the GitHub project board. Hotfix branches are used for patch releases.

The standard process for working off the develop branch should go as follows:

git fetch in your current local branch to get latest remote branches list
git checkout develop to switch to develop branch
git pull to get the latest of develop branch
git checkout -b branch_name to create local branch for your task/issue
- This is consistent with the Git Flow approach and with Azure DevOps integration requirements
Go through the motions of development and committing and pushing as before. Once completed, create a pull request into develop branch
When pull request is completed, repeat from the top to start a new local branch/new dev work item

Always write tests for any parts of the code base you have touched. These tests should cover all possible edge cases (malformed input, guarding against nulls, infinite loops etc)