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 ### Adding a New Audio Source or Effect
 
 1. Create a new file in `src/source/`
-2. Implement the `Source` trait to define how audio samples are generated or modified
-3. Consider implementing sources like oscillators, noise generators, or effects like amplification, filtering, or distortion
-4. Begin with a test for your new feature. This approach ensures your PR is ready and simplifies development. Don't worry about optimizing initially; focus on functionality.
-5. Once your feature works, celebrate your progress! 🎉 Open a draft PR at this stage - we're here to assist with refactoring and optimization.
-6. Refactor your code, add benchmarks, and work on improving performance, especially for real-time processing in effects. Refer to the [Rust Performance Book](https://nnethercote.github.io/perf-book/introduction.html) for optimization techniques.
-7. If you're unsure about creating tests, implement your feature first, then open a PR asking for guidance. We're happy to help!
+1. Implement the `Source` trait to define how audio samples are generated or modified
+1. Consider implementing sources like oscillators, noise generators, or effects like amplification, filtering, or distortion
+1. If your contribution creates sound you should give it a public (factory) function that constructs it. If its an effect then add a method with default implementation for it in the `Source` trait.
+1. Begin with a test for your new feature (see the [Testing](#testing)). This approach ensures your PR is ready and simplifies development. Don't worry about optimizing initially; focus on functionality.
+1. Once your feature works, celebrate your progress! 🎉 Open a draft PR at this stage - we're here to assist with refactoring and optimization.
+1. Refactor your code, add benchmarks, and work on improving performance, especially for real-time processing in effects. Refer to the [Rust Performance Book](https://nnethercote.github.io/perf-book/introduction.html) for optimization techniques.
+1. Finally add some documentation and an example. For details see [Documentation]($documentation)
+1. If you're unsure about creating tests, implement your feature first, then open a PR with what you have asking for guidance. We're happy to help!
 
 ### Implementing a New Decoder
 
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 - We'll remove these tests before merging into the main codebase, primarily because:
   - They can make refactoring more difficult as tests may break with code changes
   - Rust's robust type system reduces the need for extensive unit testing compared to dynamically typed languages
+- We love integration tests but they can be hard to write. If you have trouble adding one its fine to leave it out. If you do add one create a new file for it in `tests/`. 
+
+The integration test do not create sound though your speakers instead you write
+code that examines the produced *samples*. Some examples:
+  - The `tests/wav_test.rs` test simply checks if the decoder produces nonzero samples. 
+  - The test `seek_does_not_break_channel_order` in `tests/seek.rs` uses a
+    beeping sound that alternates between two channel. It seeks to a
+    point where we know only the second channel should make sound. Then we check
+    if the first channel is silent while the second is not.
+- Its impossible to write a test that checks if something sounds "good". We
+  recommend adding an example that *does* produces sound and listening as a
+  test.
 - Run tests: `cargo test`
 
 ## Documentation
 
-- Add inline documentation to all public items
+- Add inline documentation to all public items.
 - Generate docs: `cargo doc --open`
-- Contribute examples to `examples/`
+- Add an example. That could be as part of the inline documentation or a more complex scenario in `examples/`
 
 ## Contribution Workflow