Frequently Asked Questions (Developers)

FAQ Developers

I created a PR and want to get it reviewed, what should I do?

• Please leave a comment with your PR at the referring Jira ticket and ask for a review.

I wrote a comment on the Jira ticket but nobody reviewed my ticket yet, what should I do?

• Sometimes it can take a few days for one of our members with writing access to see the comment, please be patient and do not ping any members in the comments.

The testrun on Jenkins says some tests fail, even tho they work locally, what should I do?

• If any tests fail please:
  • make sure that you really did not change any code which could be related to the issue
  • make sure that they pass locally(always)
  • write the failing tests into the PR so the reviewer can take a closer look into it

I want to start as an contributor in the Project, what should I do?

• If you want to to contribute to our projects, we suggest starting by forkingthe repository of the project you want to contribute to. Then you can take a look at our issue-tracker and start by looking at the tickets. The first training ticket usually consists of writing a new Catrobat language test. To do so, please take a look at https://jira.catrob.at/browse/CATROID-390 and How to do Catrobat language tests. We strictly use test driven development and clean code, so read everything you can about these development methods before starting any ticket. Afterwards you can follow Branch and Commit Message Guidelines and Creating a pull request to get your ticket merged.

How to run static code analyzing tools (Checkstyle, PMD, Lint) locally?

• There are gradle tasks to run every static code analyzing tool

  Tool	Gradle task
  Checkstyle	checkstyle
  PMD	pmd
  Lint	lint
  All tools above at once	check

  You can run all gradle tasks either in the

  • Terminal
  • e.g. ./gradlew checkstyle
  • Android Studio
  • 
    The result can be found in the Gradle Console.