Developer guide

The developer guide is for contributors who need to understand the solution structure, run the full toolchain locally, extend Cress, and maintain the documentation and CI setup.

Topics

• Repository overview
• Local development
• Extensibility
• Test framework integrations
• Framework demos and development-cycle integration
• GitHub Actions integration
• Environment orchestration
• Designing for automation
• Docs and CI

Contributor workflow

1. Restore the repository and local tools.
2. Build the solution.
3. Run the relevant test slice.
4. Update docs when behavior changes.
5. Build the DocFX site before changing docs or API navigation.