1. Copyright © 2004, SAS Institute Inc. All rights reserved. Looking Past “The Project” with Open-Source Tools Carl Nagle SAS Institute Project Manager: SAFSDEV http://safsdev.sourceforge.net

2. Copyright © 2004, SAS Institute Inc. All rights reserved. Agenda  Looking beyond “The Project”  Looking beyond “The Enterprise”  Open-Source: Much more than meets the eye  SAFSDEV, STAF, GNU, and You  Demos, Questions, and Answers

3. Copyright © 2004, SAS Institute Inc. All rights reserved. Looking… Beyond “The Project”  Is your automated test effort really unique?  Do you really think your problems are novel?  Do you really want to do this all over again? Generally, a finite set of common components make up our infinite set of unique applications. We are all trying to solve the same problems!

4. Copyright © 2004, SAS Institute Inc. All rights reserved. Looking… Beyond “The Enterprise”  < ’98 – “Go Make ReUsable Frameworks” Test Automation Frameworks  2000 – Test Automation Frameworks  2002 – Enterprisewide Testware Architecture  2003 – Home-Brewed Test Automation (base on open-source technologies)  2004 – Open-Source Test Tools

5. Copyright © 2004, SAS Institute Inc. All rights reserved. Open-Source: More Than Meets the Eye  More than just free tools  More than just a customizable codebase External knowledge base External technical support Viable means of continuity External development resources

6. Copyright © 2004, SAS Institute Inc. All rights reserved. SAFSDEV, STAF, GNU, and You  Software Automation Framework Support  Software Testing Automation Framework  GNU’s Not Unix/Free Software Foundation  SourceForge, FreshMeat and many others Seek, and ye shall find… Share, and be rewarded tenfold…

7. Copyright © 2004, SAS Institute Inc. All rights reserved. Demos, Questions, and Answers Copyright © 2002, SAS Institute Inc. All rights reserved.  http://testingfaqs.org  http://opensource.org  http://www.io.com/~wazmo/qa  http://safsdev.sourceforge.net  http://staf.sourceforge.net  http://sourceforge.net  http://freshmeat.net  http://www.gnu.org