Free quality assurance and testing software for linux

An open Quality of Service Architecture is an open architecture for the provisioning of Quality of Service related functionality into the Linux kernel.
The project features a flexible, portable and lightweight software architecture for supporting QoS related services on the top of a general-purpose operating system as Linux. The architecture is well founded on formal scheduling analysis and control theoretical results.
At the core of the software there is an adaptive Resource Reservation layer that is capable of dynamically adapting the CPU allocation for QoS aware applications based on its run-time requirements.
As it is highlighted by the AQuoSA architecture, the project is mainly composed of two components:
- the QoS Res module, for which you can browse online the kernel, application and internal APIs
- the QoS Mgr module, for which you can browse online the kernel, application and internal APIs
Enhancements:
- Some bug fixed

Adaptive Quality of Service Architecture (AQuoSA) is an open architecture for the provisioning of adaptive Quality of Service functionality into the Linux kernel. The project features a flexible, portable, lightweight and open architecture for supporting soft real-time applications with facilities related to timing guarantees and QoS, on the top of a general-purpose operating system as Linux.
At the core of the architecture there is an adaptive resource reservation layer that is capable of dynamically adapting the CPU allocation for QoS aware applications based on their run-time requirements.
Timing guarantees are provided through an in-kernel reservation based process scheduler, whose services are exposed to applications through a well-designed API.
A supervisor performs admission control, so that admitting into the system new applications with timing guarantees does not affect the timing guarantees of already admitted applications. Also, it takes care of guaranteeing appropriate security policies in the assignment of timing guarantees to users and user groups, as configured by the system administrator.
A feedback-based QoS control layer may be optionally used by applications who want to keep their timing guarantees by using a CPU allocation that is continuously adapted according to their actual needs. This leaverages the programmer, within certain limits, to hard-code any particular reservation amount within the application, because the best allocation is found out automatically at run-time. Also, this enhances the possibilities for the system to host additional QoS controlled applications. The available control algorithms are well founded on formal scheduling models and control theoretical results.
Enhancements:
- This release introduces a couple of flags useful when creating servers. If QOS_F_PERSISTENT is enabled, a server is allowed to exist beyond detach of the last task. If QOS_F_SOFT is enabled, a server tasks are scheduled by the Linux default scheduler/policy, when outside of the server reservation.
- Also, various stability issues in destroying servers have been fixed, also thanks to a new release of the generic scheduler patch for the Linux kernel (gs-2.2).

GNU/Linux Desktop Testing Project (GNU/LDTP) is aimed at producing high quality test automation framework and cutting-edge tools that can be used to test GNU/Linux Desktop and improve it.
GNU/Linux Desktop Testing Project uses the "Accessibility" libraries to poke through the applications user interface. The framework has tools to generate "AppMap" by reading through the user interface components of an application. The framework also has tools to record test-cases based on user-selection on the application.
GNU/LDTP core framework uses "AppMap" and the recorded "test-cases" to test an application and gives the status of each test-case as output.
As of now, GNU/LDTP can test any GNOME application which are accessibility enabled, Mozilla, OpenOffice.org, any Java application (should have a UI based on swing) and KDE 4.0 applications based on QT 4.0 (based on the press releases by KDE).
We encourage you to join the project and help us to create robust, reliable and stable test tool/framework for Linux Desktops.
Main features:
- LDTP concepts are derived from Software Automation Framework Support
- LDTP supports verification of actions performed (GuiExist, VerifyState, etc) - API Reference
- Writing test scripts are very easy, the script writer need not know about the object hierarchy
- CPU / Memory performance monitoring of application-under-test can be measured - Class pstats
- From the XML log, we can gather HTML report using XSLT
- Group based execution, which provides precise control on the flow of test-script execution - Gldap XML
- Scripts can be written as a reusable component and for that the datas can be stored / retrieved in XML - Data XML
- User-friendly Text Editor with syntax highlighting for generating and grouping test data Howto use LDTP Editor
- Objects are identified both statically and dynamically
Enhancements:
- Now automation scripts can be written without using time.sleep.
- A particular object and its child can be remapped in a window.
- Memory leaks were fixed.

Beryl on Debian GNU/Linux Testing is a script which will install Beryl and possibly nVidia or ATI drivers on your Debian TESTING system. The script is only for users who have got a nvidia or ATI graphic card.
3 languages available:
- French
- English
- Polish
HOW TO EXECUTE:
Open a terminal and do sh beryl-debian.sh
NOTE: Its not really xgl so I changed the name into Beryl on Debian
NOTE: Some people told me that beryl doesnt work with the fglrx driver. If someone know how to make Beryl work with ATI cards, please contact me.
Enhancements:
- Add possibility to install Heliodor if you use GNOME
- You can see the countdown at the beginning.

Linux For Clinics is a Linux-based OS with a complete software package aimed at medical professionals and hospitals as a free and complete alternative to expensive proprietary software.

We are using Ubuntu as the base.

Adaptive Quality of Service Architecture (AQuoSA) is an open architecture for the provisioning of adaptive Quality of Service functionality into the Linux kernel. The project features a flexible, portable, and lightweight software architecture for supporting QoS-related services on top of a general-purpose operating system as Linux.

The architecture is well founded on formal scheduling analysis and control theoretical results. At the core of the architecture there is an adaptive resource reservation layer that is capable of dynamically adapting the CPU allocation for QoS aware applications based on their run-time requirements.

Timing guarantees are provided through an in-kernel reservation based process scheduler, whose services are exposed to applications through a well-designed API.

A supervisor performs admission control, so that admitting into the system new applications with timing guarantees does not affect the timing guarantees of already admitted applications. Also, it takes care of guaranteeing appropriate security policies in the assignment of timing guarantees to users and user groups, as configured by the system administrator.

A feedback-based QoS control layer may be optionally used by applications who want to keep their timing guarantees by using a CPU allocation that is continuously adapted according to their actual needs. This leaverages the programmer, within certain limits, to hard-code any particular reservation amount within the application, because the best allocation is found out automatically at run-time. Also, this enhances the possibilities for the system to host additional QoS controlled applications. The available control algorithms are well founded on formal scheduling models and control theoretical results.

WAassistant is a Web application for evaluating the accessibility of Web sites to handicapped users.
WAassistant is not just a test result reporting tool and also it tries to manage the whole testing process, including review of automated testing results, testing by humans, and making comprehensive reports on accessibility properties of Web sites.
Enhancements:
- Support for cooperation with WAusers and switching user roles.
- Additionally, it contains a few bugfixes and smaller improvements.