Implementing and maintaining a protocol stack is a lot of work, therefore any help is appreciated, from creating issues, to contributing documentation, fixing issues and adding new features.
Please follow the best-practice contribution guidelines as mentioned below when submitting any changes.
This module has a changelog which is automatically generated based on Git commit messages. This mechanism requires that all commit messages comply with the Conventional Changelog. You can check if your commit messages complies with those guidelines by using:
yarn changelog
This module uses the Google JavaScript Code-Style and enforces it using ESlint as primary. You can test if your changes comply with the code style by executing:
yarn lint
Testing is done using Jest and is separated into two
sets, unit
and integration
. While unit tries to test on function level,
including synthetic decoding and encoding, the integration tests are using real
recorded data and are only mocking the transport layer.
For both sets, the test-coverage is calculated using Istanbul. Running the tests and calculating the coverage can be done locally by executing:
yarn test
yarn integration
It is expected that new features or fixes do not negatively impact the test results or the coverage.
Besides the unit
and integration
test-sets, which are ensuring functionality
using synthetical data, the compliance
test-set is using a well established
3rd BACNET device emulator to test against. It uses the same test setup with
Jest and Istanbul, but runs
inside a Docker container, while using the BACStack Compliance Docker
image to test against.
The compliance tests can be executed locally and require Docker and Docker-Compose. To do so, simply run:
docker-compose build
docker-compose up --abort-on-container-exit --exit-code-from bacnet-client
The API documentation is generated using JSDoc and relies on in-line JSDoc3 syntax. The documentation can also be built locally by executing:
yarn docs
It is expected that new features or changes are reflected in the documentation as well.