= Spring Data contribution guidelines You find the contribution guidelines for Spring Data projects https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-data-build/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.adoc[here]. **Please read these carefully!** Do not submit a Pull Request before having created an issue and having discussed it. This prevents you from doing work that might be rejected. == Running the test locally In order to run the tests locally with `./mvnw test` you need to have docker running because Spring Data Elasticsearch uses https://www.testcontainers.org/[Testcontainers] to start a local running Elasticsearch instance.