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FreeFileSync is an Open-Source folder comparison and synchronization tool. It is optimized for highest performance and usability without restricted or overloaded UI interfaces.

Available as a GNU Licence, FreeFileSync uses the C++ language and is free to use.

Key features include

• Compare files (bytewise or by date) and synchronize them.
• No limitations: An arbitrary number of files can be synchronized.
• Unicode support.
• Network support.
• Synchronization database for propagation of deleted files and conflict detection
• Support for multiple folder pairs with distinct configuration
• Full support for Windows/Linux Symbolic Links and Windows Junction Points.
• Lean & easily accessible UI: Highly optimized for speed and huge sets of data.
• Algorithms coded in C++ completely.
• All progress indicators optimized for maximum performance!
• Create Batch Jobs for automated synchronization with or without GUI.
• Focus on usability:
  • Only necessary functionality on UI: no overloaded menus or icon jungle.
  • Select all folders via drag & drop.
  • Last used configuration and screen settings are saved automatically.
  • Maintain and load different configurations by drag & drop, load-button or commandline.
  • Double-click to start external application (e.g. show file in Windows Explorer)
  • Copy & paste all grid data as text
  • Delete superfluous/temporary files directly on main grid.
  • Right-click context menu.
  • Status information and error reporting
  • Sort file-lists by name, size or date.

• Support for filesizes larger than 4 GB.
• Option to move files to Recycle Bin instead of deleting/overwriting them.
• Ignore directories “\RECYCLER” and “\System Volume Information” with default Filter. (Windows only)

• Localized versions are available for many languages.
• Delete before copy: Avoid disc space shortages for large sync-jobs.
• Filter functionality to include/exclude files from synchronization (without requiring a re-compare!).
• Include/exclude specific files from synchronization temporarily.
• Create sync jobs via GUI to synchronize automatically (can be scheduled or executed via double-click).
• Handle daylight saving time changes on FAT/FAT32 volumes correctly.
• Portable version (.zip) available.
• Native 64-Bit version.
• Support for \\?\ path prefix for unrestricted path length. (Windows only)
• Check for updates from within FreeFileSync automatically.
• Copy locked files using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service. (Windows only)
• Create regular backups with macros %time%, %date% within directory names
• Copy file and folder create/access/mo

For more information and ways to access please visit testertools.com

SugarCRM the provider of open source customer relationship management (CRM) software, today announced it will release several functional and performance testing tools under open source licenses for use with web-enabled applications, including all versions of SugarCRM’s award winning applications.

The announcement was made at the O’Reilly Open Source Conference (OSCON), and is said to ‘better enables SugarCRM developers, partners and customers to create custom enhancements and build solutions on SugarCRM’s products’.

The new testing tools build upon SugarCRM’s announcement earlier this year that it has created a public source code tree for Sugar developers. Now, partners and developers have access not just to a public source code tree, but also powerful testing tools to develop and insure top performance of their custom code.

The new open source projects include:

SODA – an XML-based testing framework leveraging Watir. Watir is an open source Ruby library for automating web browser interactions. SODA simplifies the process of creating browser test automation, allowing non-programmers to successfully develop and execute in-depth test suites against web based applications.

SodaMachine – a graphical user interface (GUI) tool for creating, editing and debugging SODA tests. SodaMachine will be available initially for Windows and Linux.

MeterMaid – a lightweight XML language that simplifies the process of writing Apache JMeter tests for the HTTP protocol.

SugarMMM (MeterMaid Maker) – a utility for automatically generating MeterMaid XML for load testing against a given SugarCRM instance.

TidBit – a data generator for SugarCRM that is capable of generating massive amounts of data in a SugarCRM instance for use in scalability and performance testing.

These tools will be made available within 30 days at SugarCRM’s SugarForge developer site. Learn more at http://developers.sugarcrm.com/opensource.

For more information about SugarCRM’s open source projects and community, visit http://sugarforge.org.

LAFAYETTE, Colo.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–nSyte Software, a Colorado start-up specializing in software testing tools,  announce the launch of its new product called nQuire which will help software development companies audit code real-time to proactively address the potential inadvertent use of licensed open source software.

“There’s nothing wrong with utilizing free open source code”

Use of open source software has exploded in recent years among software development companies of all sizes. Pressure on companies to keep software development costs low and meet demanding development deadlines has resulted in more programmers looking for ways to crunch more code in less time. The result is that more proprietary software may inadvertently contain open source code, much of which is subject differing and often cumbersome license agreements.

“There’s nothing wrong with utilizing free open source code,” states Philip Bice, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for nSyte Software. “The issue gets tricky, however, when a company needs to certify that there either isn’t any open source in their product or that they have complied with all necessary licensing terms when open source has been used. Ignorance isn’t an excuse and stating that you are compliant only to find out that is not the case can be a costly mistake, both legally as well as from a product reengineering perspective,” he adds.

Many outsourced software developers have contracts requiring them to provide details of any known open source software used during development. “We’re keenly interested in a product that will raise any red flags about the use of open source software during a project and not months or years later after we’ve invested thousands of programming hours,” says Ryan Shuttleworth, CEO of Cobalt Storm, a SaaS development shop based in the United Kingdom. “Getting an accurate view of any open source code in a few seconds is a massive time saver and risk reducer. The cost of getting it wrong is very high,” he adds.

While Bice admits that other open source code auditing tools exist, he points out that most of them stress a one-time review after a program has been completed. “Our nQuire tool is quite unique in that it provides a highly cost effective way to audit software code real-time during development in order to help companies proactively manage any open source licensing issues before it becomes a problem,” he says. It’s an approach, nSyte Software believes, that promises to save some companies tens of thousands in reprogramming dollars while keeping companies legally compliant on a continual basis.

The nQuire audit tool works by comparing program coding to date against a database of thousands of the latest known open source software – either on an ad hoc basis or each time a software build is triggered. Any open source code used can be quickly identified to determine what, if any, work-around is required in order to avoid potential open source software licensing issues. Because nQuire is a subscription based software audit tool, software developers of all sizes will pay as little as $250 per month to get the protection they need to be legally compliant with open source code licensing. According to Bice, the competition charges as much as $20,000 for a one-time opens source software audit, making nSyte’s tool a much more affordable alternative.

The launch of nQuire could not come at a better time. With over 50,000 software development companies and $220 billion in annual software revenues in the U.S. according to Hoover’s, Bice expects first-time subscriptions for nQuire’s on-demand software auditing to be robust. “Informal discussions I’ve had with CIOs of several large corporations point to a growing concern over the use of open source software,” he says. “A few of them have even admitted that because of the sheer enormity of their company’s software code they have absolutely no idea how much open source could be in use.”

nSyte Software is betting that the peace-of-mind, sleep-better-at-night factor of nQuire will prompt many software development companies to finally take a proactive approach toward managing the use of open source code during development and not afterward. So far, early market analysis is positive and suggests a majority of software development companies would easily adopt a true code auditing tool if it were both easy to use and affordable. Because nQuire is a cloud-based solution and requires no up-front investment, that should not be a problem. Indeed, nSyte Software is quietly confident they have the right tool with the right subscription pricing to address a risk that’s much on the minds of CIOs having trouble falling asleep at night.

About nSyte Software

nSyte Software offers best of breed tools and services focused on helping organizations to identify inefficiencies in their software development, quality assurance and project management processes, to implement the right tools to build higher quality software and to improve their time to market, in a manner more responsive to customer needs. nSyte Software makes its customers more successful and more profitable by only offering tools and services capable of demonstrating a quick return on investment. It is an approach that sets nSyte Software apart from the competition and has been proven effective in serving businesses of all sizes, from independent development shops to Fortune 500 organizations.

Visit www.nsytesoftware.com for more information.

If you’re looking for a decent build tool for C/C++ programming languages, why not try CodeLites open-source, cross platform IDE.  Built and tested on Windows XP SP3, Windows Vista, Ubuntu 9.10, and Mac OSX 10.5.6. Early versions of this product had known bugs. But this version shouid fix all that

Code lite in action.

CodeLite main features are as follows:

* Generic support for compilers

* Can be easily extended with plugins (several plugins are already included in the installer)

* Built-in GDB support, with the following features included:

o Watches table – add persistent watches with a single click

o Quick Watch – right click on a variable to expand it

o Locals tree – automatically displays the current stack variables (also displays *this if available)

o Threads view – contains a list of currently-running threads; switch between them with a single click

o Breakpoint management – ‘add/remove breakpoint’ management panel

o Automatic tooltip

o Memory view

* Subversion plugin (based on the command line tool)

* cscope plugin

* External Tools plugin

* Gizmos plugin – for the creation of: C++ classes, wxWidgets projects, CodeLite plugins

* Makefile based build system

* Project explorer (Workspace view)

* File Explorer

* Imports MSVS workspace/projects and converts them to use a GNU-based makefile

* Active-document outline

* Sophisticated database-based Code Completion mechanism; a default database is supplied which contains symbols for wxWidgets, STL and standard headers

o Function’s call tip

o Hover tip

o Comments tips

o Members List

o Supports C++ templates, namespaces and other advance features of the language

o Automatically add include statement for symbols

o Code Refactoring (rename class/method/member)

o Implement all unimplemented methods

o Implement method

o Move functions implementation to another source file

o Generate setters/getters

* Quickly open resources in the editor using ‘Find Resource in workspace’

* Quickly open types in the editor using ‘Find Type in workspace’

* XML-based syntax highlighting, comes with the following:

o C/C++. Java. Perl. XML. Makefile. Lua. Diff files. PHP. JavaScript, Python, HTML, ASP,

* Text Folding

* Bookmarks

* Find In Files

* Replace In Files

* Highly Configurable

* Built-in doxygen comment generator for functions/classes

* And much more…

CodeLite is distributed under the terms of the GPLv2 license.and this version

You can download codelite here

Capedit is an Open Source PCAP Based Network Protocol Testing Tool.

Containing a Wireshark Like GUI Interface the app is Developed In C and GTK+ (Currently Supported on Linux only).

Features include:

* Protocol Field Value Modification.
* Packet Deletion.
* Packet Duplication.
* Packet Reordering.
* TCP and UDP Stream based Field Value Modification.
* IP and MAC Address Find And Replace
* Auto CheckSum for IP, ICMP, IGMP, TCP and UDP Protocols.
* Interface Selection For Sending Packets.
* Option for Sending Single Selected Packet.
* Pcap Replay.

Go to TesterTools for more detail.