1. A Complete Software Development Process Using Open Source Software
Evan Leybourn
Looking Glass Solutions

2. Why Open Source? Low integration costs
No vendor lock-in for development tools.
Completely modifiable tools.
Using open source tools does NOT mean that your project must be open source too.

3. Project Planning and Design
Planner
An easy to use project management application
Task Juggler
A complex project management tool. Extremely powerful, but with a high learning curve.

4. Project Planning and Design (cont.)‏
StarUML
Windows based UML modelling tool
Dia
Diagram (inc UML and ER) creation tool

5. Project Tracking Eventum
Web based issue tracking system. Supported by Sun and MySQL.
Request Tracker (RT)‏
Fully featured ticketing system, supporting and sms ticket generation.

6. Version Control Subversion
Traditional version control system similar to CVS. Excellent integration capabilities.
Bazaar
A distributed version control system, where each contributor can manage and maintain fully featured branches of the software.

7. Frameworks Spring (Java, J2EE)‏
A full-stack Java and J2EE application framework.
CakePHP (PHP)‏
One of the most popular PHP web frameworks today. Follows the MVC and ORM design patterns.
Django (Python)‏
One of the first web frameworks to be developed.

8. Integrated Development Environments (IDE)‏
Eclipse
One of the most well known and powerful IDEs on the market. Supported by many governments and large organisations.
Kdevelop
A lightwight IDE which supports multiple languages.

9. Integrated Development Environments (cont.)‏
Stanis Python Editor
Python IDE. Very fast and popular
GPHPEdit
Lightweight and simple PHP IDE.

10. Integrated Development Environments (cont.)‏
Code::Blocks
C/C++ IDE
Netbeans
Popular and well developed Java IDE.

11. Development Tools
GCC
A family of C compilers for a variety of languages including C, C++, Java.
Valgrind
A series of tools for code evaluation and performance measures. Used to identify speed bottlenecks and memory leaks.

12. Development Tools (cont)‏
Advanced PHP Debugger
Similar to Valgrind. Provides profiling and debugging for PHP.
KcacheGrind
Provides an attractive and easy to use interface to Valgrind and APDs output.

13. Databases
PostgreSQL
A powerful RDBMS. ACID compliant and mostly conforms to the SQL standards. Often used as an Oracle replacement.
MySQL
A very popular RDBMS with excellent performance.
SQLite
A self-contained DBMS. Often used in embedded devices.

14. Testing Junit http://junit.sourceforge.net CUnit / CppUnit
SimpleTest
PyUnit

15. Code Repositories Boost (C++)‏ http://www.boost.org Pear (PHP)‏
CPAN (Perl)‏
Google Code

16. Other Tools Capistrano Automate tasks on remote servers.
MediaWiki
The Wiki application used by Wikipedia. This can be used to write collaborative documentation within a development team.

17. Thank You
Any questions