title: Development
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# Development

## Software Repositories

The [Monitoring Plugins Development Team][team] takes care of three projects:

* Monitoring Plugins — the core bundle of standard plugins.
* Monitoring::Plugin — a module used by plugins written in Perl.
* NagiosMIB — SNMP MIB files for traps sent from [Nagios][nagios].

These projects are maintained in separate repositories on [GitHub][github]:

* <https://github.com/monitoring-plugins>

Contributions are always welcome!  If you'd like to provide patches, please
[fork][fork] the desired repository and submit a [pull request][pull].  In
case you're not familiar with Git, you might want to look into our [short
introduction][git-intro] or [some other Git documentation][git-ref], first.

## Tests

### Integration Tests

Our development workflow includes [continuous integration
tests][github-ci-actions] hosted by [GitHub Actions][github-actions] and [static code
analysis][coverity-project] performed by [Coverity Scan][coverity].

* GitHub CI build status: ![Build Status master][master-img]{: .travis }
* Coverity metric: ![Coverity Metric][coverity-img]{: .travis }

### Bundled Test Suite

The Monitoring Plugins bundle comes with an extensive test suite.  Some of the
tests require [libtap][libtap], a copy of which is shipped with the Monitoring
Plugins source tarball.  In order to execute all tests, issue the following
commands:

    $ ./tools/setup # When building from Git.
    $ ./configure --enable-libtap
    $ make
    $ make test

Also see our testing-related [development FAQs][dev-faq].

[team]: team.html "Monitoring Plugins Development Team"
[nagios]: http://www.nagios.org/ "Nagios"
[github]: https://github.com/ "GitHub"
[fork]: https://help.github.com/articles/fork-a-repo "Fork Documentation"
[pull]: https://help.github.com/articles/using-pull-requests "Pull Request Documentation"
[git-intro]: doc/faq/git.html "Quick Git Introduction"
[git-ref]: doc/faq/git.html#references "Git References"
[master-img]:  https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/actions/workflows/test.yml/badge.svg?branch=master "Build Status master"
[coverity-img]: https://scan.coverity.com/projects/1435/badge.svg?flat=1 "Coverity Metric"
[libtap]: http://jc.ngo.org.uk/trac-bin/trac.cgi/wiki/LibTap "LibTap Homepage"
[dev-faq]: doc/faq/#development "Development FAQs"
[github-actions]: https://docs.github.com/en/actions "GitHub Docs - GitHub Actions"
[github-ci-actions]: https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/actions "Monitoring Plugins - Github Workflows"
[coverity]: https://scan.coverity.com/ "Coverity Scan"
[coverity-project]: https://scan.coverity.com/projects/1435 "Monitoring Plugins at Coverity Scan"

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