Contributing to OTOBO

This chapter will show how you can contribute to the OTOBO framework, so that other users will be able to benefit from your work.

Contents

• Sending Contributions
• Translating
• Code Style Guide
  • Perl
    • Whitespace
    • Length of Lines
    • Spaces and Parentheses
    • Source Code Header and Charset
    • Conditions
    • Postfix if
    • Restrictions for the Use of Some Perl Builtins
    • Regular Expressions
    • Naming
    • Variable Declaration
    • Handling of Parameters
    • Multiple Named Parameters
    • return Statements
    • Explicit Return Values
    • use Statements
    • Objects and Their Allocation
    • Documenting Back End Modules
    • Documenting Subroutines
    • Code Comments in Perl
    • Declaration of SQL Statements
    • Returning on Errors
    • Using Limit
    • Using the while loop
  • JavaScript
    • Directory Structure
    • Thirdparty Code
    • JavaScript Variables
    • Functions
    • Namespaces
    • Code Comments in JavaScript
    • Event Handling
  • HTML
  • CSS
    • CSS Architecture
    • CSS Style
• User Interface Design
  • Capitalization
• Accessibility Guide
  • Accessibility Basics
    • What is Accessibility?
    • Why is it important for OTOBO?
    • How can I successfully work on accessibility issues even if I am not disabled?
    • Ok, but I don’t have a screen reader!
  • Accessibility Standards
    • Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
    • Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) 1.0
  • Implementation guidelines
    • Provide alternatives for non-text content
    • Make navigation easy
    • Make interaction possible
    • General screen reader optimizations
• Unit Tests
  • Creating a Test File
  • Prerequisites for Testing
  • Testing
  • Unit Test API