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What is Axe?

Axe is an experimental digital currency that enables instant, privatepayments to anyone, anywhere in the world. Axe uses peer-to-peer technologyto operate with no central authority: managing transactions and issuing moneyare carried out collectively by the network. Axe Core is the name of the opensource software which enables the use of this currency.

License

Axe Core is released under the terms of the MIT license. See COPYING for moreinformation or see https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.

Development Process

The master branch is meant to be stable. Development is normally done in separate branches.Tags are created to indicate new official,stable release versions of Axe Core.

The contribution workflow is described in CONTRIBUTING.md.

Testing

Testing and code review is the bottleneck for development; we get more pullrequests than we can review and test on short notice. Please be patient and help out by testingother people's pull requests, and remember this is a security-critical project where any mistake might cost peoplelots of money.

Automated Testing

Developers are strongly encouraged to write unit tests for new code, and tosubmit new unit tests for old code. Unit tests can be compiled and run(assuming they weren't disabled in configure) with: make check. Further details on runningand extending unit tests can be found in /src/test/README.md.

There are also regression and integration tests, writtenin Python, that are run automatically on the build server.These tests can be run (if the test dependencies are installed) with: test/functional/test_runner.py

The Travis CI system makes sure that every pull request is built for Windows, Linux, and OS X, and that unit/sanity tests are run automatically.

Manual Quality Assurance (QA) Testing

Changes should be tested by somebody other than the developer who wrote thecode. This is especially important for large or high-risk changes. It is usefulto add a test plan to the pull request description if testing the changes isnot straightforward.