Development

These guides are aimed at people contributing to Sardana itself or developing and testing Sardana plugins (macros, controllers, recorders).

• Coding guide
  • Overview
  • How to contribute to Sardana
  • General design
  • Software layers
  • Sardana kernel
  • Plugins
• Testing
  • Overview
  • Install the test environment
  • Run the tests
  • Test categories and markers
  • Tango database isolation
  • Choose a fixture
  • Configure Tango fixtures
  • Write a device-server test
  • Test elements and parallel sessions
  • Macro and controller test helpers
  • Legacy device-server base classes
• Test-driven development example
  • Test development
  • Macro development
• Unit test examples
  • sardanavalue
  • parameter
• Troubleshooting
  • How to call procedures (macros)?
  • How to write procedures (macros)?
  • How to write scan procedures?
  • How to adapt Sardana to your own hardware?
  • How to access Tango from within macros or controllers?
  • How to add your own file format?
  • How to access EPICS from Sardana?
  • Which controller type should I choose for hardware that does not fit any specific type?