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Archi - Open Source Enterprise and Software Architecture Modeling

Franco Martinig, Martinig & Associates, http://www.martinig.ch/

Archi is a free open source modeling tool to create business, IT and software architecture models using the ArchiMate modeling language. This language is an open and independent enterprise architecture standard that supports the description, analysis and visualization of architecture within and across business domains. ArchiMate is one of the open standards hosted by The Open Group and is fully aligned with TOGAF. Archi® is a registered trademark of Phillip Beauvoir and ArchiMate®, The Open Group® and TOGAF® are registered trademarks of The Open Group.

Web Site: https://www.archimatetool.com/
Version tested: 4.3.1 (released on 30 November 2018) in January 2019 on Windows 8
System requirements: works on Windows 32 & 64 bits, Mac OS X, Linux
License & Pricing: open source, MIT License
Support: https://forum.archimatetool.com/

Axway Automated Testing System (ATS)

The Axway ATS Team, https://www.axway.com/en, @axway

The Axway Automated Testing System (ATS) is a powerful multipurpose open source testing framework suitable for different types of functional, performance and UI testing of modern enterprise products. ATS allows interacting with tested applications in variety of ways, as well as preparing the test environment and verifying the actual results. It gives very good options for analyzing the test results and even compare results between different executions. All this can be done using simple and neat code.

Web Site: https://github.com/Axway/ats-framework
System requirements: Java Runtime Environment version 7 or later. Successfully used on a variety of Windows and Unix-based systems.
License & Pricing: Open source free to use. See license at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
Support: Comments, suggestions and answers are welcome at ats.team [at] axway.com
Installation and download: See how to get it using Maven or download a whole distribution at https://axway.github.io/ats-framework/Retrieving-ATS-artifacts.html

Automate Your Tests

Dan Dammann, http://automateyourtests.com/

Automate Your Tests is an automated website testing tool that lets you configure and run the regression, integration, functional and user acceptance tests of your server-sided web application. This tool emphasizes ease-of-use and productivity: You will be able to achieve the highest test coverage with the least effort possible.

Web Site: http://automateyourtests.com
System requirements: Linux or Windows or Mac. Any version that isn't of the last millenium!, PHP 5.4+, PHP extension CURL
License & Pricing: This is freeware under GPL-3.0 - see https://opensource.org/licenses/GPL-3.0
Support: You can email me at any time with your feedback & questions at HowTo [at] AutomateYourTests.com
Installation and download: information on how to install and the download link for this http://automateyourtests.com/how-to-install/

Behat: The BDD library for PHP

Gonzalo Ayuso, @gonzalo123, http://gonzalo123.com/

Behat is an open source Behavior Driven Development (BDD) framework for PHP inspired by the Ruby Cucumber BDD framework.

Web Site: http://behat.org/
Version tested: 2.4.*@stable
System requirements: PHP>=5.3
License & Pricing: Open Source, MIT license, free
Support: Website, Community

BOUML - Free Unified Modeling Language (UML) & Code Generation Tool

Franco Martinig, Methods & Tools

BOUML is a free Unified Modeling Language (UML) and code generation tool that run under Windows, Linux and MacOS X. It provides a modeler that includes UML diagrams like use case, class, sequence, communication. BOUML also allows to generate code in C++, Java, Idl, PHP, Python and MySQL or import the code into diagrams. It is actively maintained and version 7.7.1 presented here was released in July 2018.

Web Site: https://www.bouml.fr/
Version presented: BOUML 7.7.1 on Window 8 in September 2018
System requirements: BOUML runs under Windows, Linux and MacOS X.
License & Pricing: Freeware
Support: support forums on https://www.bouml.fr/phpbb/

CatJS - Testing HTML and JavaScript

Arik Levin, Ran Snir, Lior Reuven, Eli Mordechai,
@catjsteam, @lastboy13, https://github.com/catjsteam

CatJS is an open source automation framework with a new approach for testing your HTML and JavaScript based web applications on multiple environments such as browsers and mobile devices. With CatJS the developer is not forced to work with a specific method and can integrate his tests on any application creation phase. CatJS only provides the ground and tools for creating and controlling the required tests execution. This results with quality application creation from day one.

Web Site: http://catjsteam.github.io/
Version tested: 0.3.4
System Requirements: Node.js 0.8.0 version or higher
License & Pricing: Apache-2.0
Support: Github Issue tracker: https://github.com/catjsteam/catjs/issues,
GoogleForum: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/catjs

Celoxis - Web Based Project Management Software

Franco Martinig, Martinig & Associates, http://www.martinig.ch/

Celoxis offers comprehensive web based project management features along with integrated tools to manage your resources, collaboration, time sheets, expenses and workflow.

Web Site: http://www.celoxis.com/
Version Tested: hosted version 5.0.1, tested with Firefox 3.6, period from February to March 2011
System Requirements:
For hosted version: Firefox 3.5, IE8, Safari 4 and Chrome
For installed version: Windows 2000+ or Linux, SQL Server 2005+ or Oracle 9i or Postgresql 8.x, Sun JDK 6.0, email server that supports SMTP and POP3 or IMAP4
License & Pricing: Commercial, US$ 14.95 monthly per user for the hosted version
Support: Help Desk

Codetrack - Free .NET Performance Profiler and Execution Analyzer

Nico Van Goethem, @GoethemNico

Codetrack is a free performance profiler and execution analyzer for .NET applications. It can be used to find out where performance bottlenecks are located within your code. In contrast to other (paid) profilers, Codetrack also gives you an incredibly detailed view of the execution flow of your code. This allows you to debug your application in a post mortem scenario: you can see which method calls which and also inspect their parameters and return values. You can even track instances of objects throughout the execution flow, so if a certain object instance is used as a method argument or return value you can see this.

Web Site: www.getcodetrack.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Codetrack4Net (@codetrack4net)
Version tested: 1.0.1.0
System requirements: Windows with .NET FW 4.0 or higher
License & Pricing: Free for personal and commercial use (http://www.getcodetrack.com/license.html)
Support: info [at] getcodetrack.com

Cucumber - Behavior Driven Development for Ruby

Richard Lawrence, Humanizing Work, http://www.humanizingwork.com/

Cucumber is an open source tool to support the Agile testing approach of Behavior Driven Development (BDD) with plain text specifications and unobtrusive automation in Ruby. Alternative implementations of Cucumber exist for Java, .NET, and several other platforms.

Web Site: https://github.com/cucumber
Version tested: 1.1.2
System requirements: Windows, OSX, Linux with Ruby 1.8.7 or later
License & Pricing: Free, MIT license
Support: Issue tracker and wiki at https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber, mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/cukes

Cuke_sniffer - Static Analysis for Cucumber

Robert Cochran, @cochrarj

cuke_sniffer is a free open source static analysis tool for Cucumber that identifies smells and issues in a project. Cucumber is a tool that executes plain-text functional descriptions as automated tests in a behavior-driven development (BDD) style.

Web Site: https://github.com/r-cochran/cuke_sniffer
Version tested: 0.0.8
System Requirements: Windows, OSX, Linux with Ruby 1.9.3 or later
License & Pricing: Free, MIT license
Support: Issue tracker and wiki at https://github.com/r-cochran/cuke_sniffer

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