Once you write some codes on your feature branch, you could build and test locally at first. Just
```
make build
```
and
```
make test
```
The `make test` is an alias of `make test-sqlite`, it will run the tests on a sqlite database file. No extra thing needed to do except you need to cgo compile enviroment.
If you write a new test method, you could run
```
make test-sqlite#TestMyNewMethod
```
that will only run the special test method.
If you want to run another datase, you have to prepare a running database at first, and then, you could
```
TEST_MYSQL_HOST= TEST_MYSQL_CHARSET= TEST_MYSQL_DBNAME= TEST_MYSQL_USERNAME= TEST_MYSQL_PASSWORD= make test-mysql
```
or other databases:
```
TEST_MSSQL_HOST= TEST_MSSQL_DBNAME= TEST_MSSQL_USERNAME= TEST_MSSQL_PASSWORD= make test-mssql
```
```
TEST_PGSQL_HOST= TEST_PGSQL_SCHEMA= TEST_PGSQL_DBNAME= TEST_PGSQL_USERNAME= TEST_PGSQL_PASSWORD= make test-postgres
```
```
TEST_TIDB_HOST= TEST_TIDB_DBNAME= TEST_TIDB_USERNAME= TEST_TIDB_PASSWORD= make test-tidb
```
And if your branch is related with cache, you could also enable it via `TEST_CACHE_ENABLE=true`.
We appreciate any bug reports, but especially ones with self-contained
(doesn't depend on code outside of xorm), minimal (can't be simplified
further) test cases. It's especially helpful if you can submit a pull
request with just the failing test case(you can find some example test file like [session_get_test.go](https://gitea.com/xorm/xorm/src/branch/master/session_get_test.go)).
If you implements a new database interface, you maybe need to add a test_<databasename>.sh file.
For example, [mysql_test.go](https://gitea.com/xorm/xorm/src/branch/master/test_mysql.sh)
### New functionality
There are a number of pending patches for new functionality, so
additional feature patches will take a while to merge. Still, patches
are generally reviewed based on usefulness and complexity in addition
to time-in-queue, so if you have a knockout idea, take a shot. Feel
free to open an issue discussion your proposed patch beforehand.