title: Development
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# Development

## Software Repositories

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

* Nagios Plugins — the core bundle of standard plugins.
* Nagios::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/nagios-plugins/repositories>

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.

## Test Suite

The Nagios Plugins bundle comes with an extensive test suite.  Some of the
tests require [libtap][libtap], a copy of which is shipped with the Nagios
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].

Regular tests of the latest code are scheduled automatically on various
platforms, the results can be [viewed online][tests].

[team]: team.html "Nagios 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"
[libtap]: http://jc.ngo.org.uk/trac-bin/trac.cgi/wiki/LibTap "LibTap Homepage"
[dev-faq]: doc/faq/#development "Development FAQs"
[tests]: tests.html "Test Results"

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