What is Addocoin?
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Addocoin is an experimental new digital currency that enables instant payments to
anyone, anywhere in the world. Addocoin uses peer-to-peer technology to operate
with no central authority: managing transactions and issuing money are carried
out collectively by the network. Addocoin is also the name of the open source
software which enables the use of this currency.
For more information, as well as an immediately useable, binary version of
the Addocoin client software, see
http://www.addocoin.comLicense
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Addocoin is released under the terms of the MIT license. See `COPYING` for more
information or see
http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.
Development process
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Developers work in their own trees, then submit pull requests when they think
their feature or bug fix is ready.
If it is a simple/trivial/non-controversial change, then one of the Addocoin
development team members simply pulls it.
If it is a *more complicated or potentially controversial* change, then the patch
submitter will be asked to start a discussion (if they haven't already) on the
[mailing list](
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=addocoin-development).
The patch will be accepted if there is broad consensus that it is a good thing.
Developers should expect to rework and resubmit patches if the code doesn't
match the project's coding conventions (see `doc/coding.md`) or are
controversial.
The `master` branch is regularly built and tested, but is not guaranteed to be
completely stable. [Tags](
https://github.com/addocoin/addocoin/tags) are created
regularly to indicate new official, stable release versions of Addocoin.
Testing
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Testing and code review is the bottleneck for development; we get more pull
requests than we can review and test. Please be patient and help out, and
remember this is a security-critical project where any mistake might cost people
lots of money.
### Automated Testing
Developers are strongly encouraged to write unit tests for new code, and to
submit new unit tests for old code.
Unit tests for the core code are in `src/test/`. To compile and run them:
cd src; make -f makefile.unix test
Unit tests for the GUI code are in `src/qt/test/`. To compile and run them:
qmake BITCOIN_QT_TEST=1 -o Makefile.test addocoin-qt.pro
make -f Makefile.test
./addocoin-qt_test
Every pull request is built for both Windows and Linux on a dedicated server,
and unit and sanity tests are automatically run. The binaries produced may be
used for manual QA testing — a link to them will appear in a comment on the
pull request posted by [AddocoinPullTester](
https://github.com/AddocoinPullTester). See
https://github.com/TheBlueMatt/test-scriptsfor the build/test scripts.
### Manual Quality Assurance (QA) Testing
Large changes should have a test plan, and should be tested by somebody other
than the developer who wrote the code.
See
https://github.com/addocoin/QA/ for how to create a test plan.
