Projects tagged ‘development’ and ‘testing’

Apache Ant is a Java-based build tool. In theory, it is kind of like Make, but without Make's wrinkles.

JUnit is a Java testing framework. Since testing is not closely integrated with development, it prevents you from measuring the progress of development. You can't tell when something starts working or ... [More] when something stops working. Using JUnit you can cheaply and incrementally build a test suite that will help you measure your progress, spot unintended side effects, and focus your development efforts. [Less]

GNU Autoconf is part of the GNU Build System. GNU Autoconf is a heavily used portability-enabling tool for UNIX-like systems, especially in free software projects. It is a compiler for a ... [More] domain-specific-language for describing library, header, and function dependencies of a project. It generates a shell script that can be run before building a package to customize the build to the system. [Less]

FindBugs is a defect detection tool for Java that uses static analysis to look for more than 200 bug patterns, such as null pointer dereferences, infinite recursive loops, bad uses of the Java ... [More] libraries and deadlocks. FindBugs can identify hundreds of serious defects in large applications (typically about 1 defect per 1000-2000 lines of non-commenting source statements). FindBugs is open source, and has been downloaded more than 230,000 times, and is used by many major companies and financial institutions. Findbugs can be used from the command line or within ant, eclipse, maven, netbeans and emacs. [Less]

Checkstyle is a development tool to help programmers write Java code that adheres to a coding standard. Its purpose is to automate the process of checking Java code, and to spare humans of this task.

RSpec is a BDD tool and a framework which provides programmers with a Domain Specific Language to describe the behaviour of Ruby code with readable, executable examples that guide you in the design ... [More] process and serve well as both documentation and tests. [Less]

Hudson is an automated build system for a team as well as a system that monitors automated jobs (such as cron jobs)

In the last decade, PHP has developed from a niche language for adding dynamic functionality to small websites to a powerful tool making strong inroads into large-scale Web systems. Critical business ... [More] logic like this needs to work correctly. But how do you ensure that it does? You test it, of course. To make code testing viable, good tool support is needed. This is where PHPUnit comes into play. [Less]

PMD is a Java source code analyzer. It finds unused variables, empty catch blocks, unnecessary object creation, and more. It includes CPD, a tool to detect chunks of identical code.

CruiseControl is a framework for a continuous build process. It includes, but is not limited to, plugins for email notification, Ant, and various source control tools. A Web interface is provided to ... [More] view the details of the current and previous builds. [Less]