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 # Testing
 Running the gradle test task, or the buildwrapper will run all junit tests.
 Currently that includes a test of certificate based authentication (Mutual TLS), tests for the thread safe process control module, and tests ensuring that only one connection can access a processes information at a time.
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+# Contributing
+Many issues are marked great-first-issue for the sake of first time contributors.
+If you are a more experienced contributor I encourage you to start on a different issue.
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+### Code Standards
+Java contributions will be held to the following standard
+https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/codeconvtoc-136057.html
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+Scala contributions are welcome as well, it is on the roadmap to refactor all this code to Scala.