ICS 121: Mini-Project List

Antelope

Antelope is a graphical user interface for running Ant (an automated build system that we will learn, see slides for week 7).

CruiseControl

CruiseControl is a tool for periodically running automated builds on a dedicated server and producing a web page with reports. This is useful for nightly builds. See slides for week 7.

GanttProject

GanttProject is a simple project management tool that helps schedule a set of tasks that may depend on each other. It is an open source alternative to MS Project.

ViewCVS

ViewCVS is a web application that allows users to browse (but not edit) a CVS repository, including the history of every file in the repository.

JUnitDoclet

JUnitDoclet is a code generation utility that scans your program source code and generates a set of template JUnit test classes. That makes it easier to use JUnit because you need only fill in the templates. We will cover JUnit in week 8.

CVS Search

CVSSearch searches for code fragments using CVS comments. It can be more useful than simple searching code in your local working copy because it also searchs past versions of each source code file.

HttpUnit

HttpUnit is a system test automation tool for web applications. It is like JUnit, but rather than testing individual units (classes), it tests the entire system. We will cover system test automation in week 8.

Doxygen

Doxygen is similar to JavaDoc, but it works with several programming languages. We will cover JavaDoc in week 9.

Grinder

Grinder is another load testing tool for web applications.

MantisBT

Mantis is a bug tracking system: a database of defects found in a project and information about how the development team will work on them.

JMeter 1

Apache JMeter is designed to load test functional behavior and measure performance. It was originally designed for testing web applications but has since expanded to other test functions.

Torque 1

Torque is a code generator that reads an XML specification of a database, and then generates SQL to implement that database and Java code to access the database.

CodeStriker 1

Codestriker is an open-sourced web application which supports online code reviewing. E.g., two developers can review code on-line and make a list of questions and comments about the quality of the code.

Tidy 1

Tidy helps find and fix errors in HTML files.

CheckStyle 1

Checkstyle is a development tool to help programmers write Java code that adheres to a coding standard. It automates the process of checking Java code to spare humans of this boring (but important) task. This makes it ideal for projects that want to enforce a coding standard.

FAQ-O-Matic 1 2

The Faq-O-Matic is a web application that automates the process of maintaining a FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions list).

LinkLint 1 2

LinkLint searches web sites to find broken hyperlinks.

Xerlin 1 2

Xerlin is an xml editor. Rather than edit an xml file as plain text, it presents a tree view of the nested XML elements. This makes the xml structure more clear and prevents certain types of errors (e.g., forgetting to add a closing tag).

JEdit 1 2 3

jEdit is a mature and well-designed programmer's text editor. It has plug-ins for a variety of programming languages and utilities. It can also be viewed as a simple IDE.

Jalopy 1 2 3

Jalopy is a java source code beautifier. It parses java source code and automatically formats it nicely. Automatic source code formatting can ease code understanding, help focus code reviews, and streamline the use of version control tools.