TestTools Report
- TestTools
 
- Outliners
 
- Leo
[www]
Desc:
A very interesting editor which is used for literate programming, and can act as an outliner.
 
- Keynote
[www]
Desc:
A free and handy encrypted outliner. Very useful.
 
- Pins
[www]
Desc:
Encryption and dll free. Very handy for storing passwords.
 
- TreeLine
[www]
Desc:
stores almost any kind of information. A tree structure makes it easy to keep things organized. And each node in the tree can contain several fields, forming a mini-database. The output format for each node can be defined, and the output can be shown on the screen, printed, or exported to html.
 
- Screen Capture and screen tools
 
- ClipMate
[www]
Desc:
My favourite clipboard management utility.
Also captures screenshots direct to the clipboard.
 
- Yankee Clipper
[www]
Desc:
Free but not as fully featured as clipmate.
 
- SnagIt
[www]
 
- MWSnap
[www]
Desc:
A dll free simple screencapture tool which is a highly effective replacement for ctrl+prtsc, paste into paint, edit, paste into bug report. It is a direct install with no external dependency so is easy to add to any client machine, or carry in on a memory stick or floppy.
And it is freeware.
 
- Wink
[www]
Desc:
an interesting tool for creating flash animations of software. Could be a great aid for defect reporting.
 
- Gif·gIf·giF
[www]
Desc:
produce GIF animations from screen captures
 
- Meazure 2.0
[www]
Desc:
a program that measures, magnifies and captures the screen by providing a battery of features in a cohesive user interface.
 
- InstantDemo
[www]
Desc:
A screen capture as movie tool with annotation
 
- WWW
 
- FTP
 
- FTP Voyager
[www]
Desc:
FTP Voyager integrates really well with topstyle 3. A double click on the html
file in ftp voyager and up pops topstyle - this came in very handy when I
discovered a bug in my style sheet that only showed up in IE5.
FTP Voyager also has a directory synch function which is really useful for
keeping directories up to date, and it multi threads so the transfers to and
from the site seemed faster. It is also enormously robust.
One word of warning - hidden files are not shown by default so you need to
use the advanced tab on the site properties and set the extra list
parameters to be '-al' . Especially important if you want to edit your
.htaccess files.
 
- FileZilla
[www]
Desc:
FileZilla is a fast and reliable FTP client and server with lots of useful features and an intuitive interface
 
- Firewalls
 
- Outpost Firewall
[www]
Desc:
Available as a free version and as a $39.95 pro version
 
- Proxies
 
- Paros
[www]
Desc:
all HTTP and HTTPS data between server and client, including cookies and form fields, can be intercepted and modified.
 
- X-ray
[www]
Desc:
A proxy for monitoring http messages.
 
- Link Checkers
 
- Browsers
 
- HTTrack website copier - offline browser
[www]
Desc:
A great free tool for backup up websites for offline browsing.
 
- MY IE2
[www]
Desc:
This is a front end for IE which enables tab based browsing and various other useful bits and pieces.
 
- Mozilla
[www]
Desc:
Currently my favourite browser.
 
- MOZie
[www]
Desc:
Compare web pages rendering in Mozilla and IE, launch other browsers
 
- cURL
[www]
Desc:
Curl is a command line tool for transferring files with URL syntax, supporting FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, GOPHER, TELNET, DICT, FILE and LDAP. Curl supports HTTPS certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, kerberos, HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies, user+password authentication, file transfer resume, http proxy tunneling
 
- Editors
 
- TopStyle 3
[www]
Desc:
TopStyle 3 is a fantastic CSS and HTML editor and comes thoroughly
recommended. It also has html tidy integrated and can tell you about
compatability problems between different browsers (I just wish I had used
that functionality!)
CSS is the future of web markup so learn it now while it isn't
ubiquitous. It really can make your html simpler to maintain, write and
easier to change the look of your site (hence some of the testing problems).
 
- eMail
 
- Attach
[www]
Desc:
Useful for making sure your email defect reports have that vital defect report attached, and warns you if it doesn't.
 
- ePrompter
[www]
Desc:
With ePrompter, you can access your hotmail accounts, yahoo (and far more) from it, not just pop accounts, and you can send mails from it as well. This is great, I've got all my email accounts in one place (including my hotmail and aol accounts). I haven't had to go through the hotmail interface since I installed it.
Did I mention that it is free?
 
- postcast server
[www]
Desc:
A free smtp server.
 
- Mercury Email Server
[www]
Desc:
A free email server.
 
- mailWasher Pro
[www]
Desc:
MailWasher Pro is my favourite anti spam solution. Its fast and only downloads the mail headers until you want to see more.
MailWasher Pro automatically detects spam by scanning the body text, consulting online databases of known spam, together with blacklists users have created and optional user-configured filters.
It even works with hotmail and AOL.
 
- Nelson Email Organizer
[www]
Desc:
Neo is a fantastic Outlook Addon. It automatically filters your email into logical folders based on the correspondents email addresses and acts as a new easier to use front end for Outlook. Searching of your outlook message folder becomes super fast and it is so easy to manage your emails.
Once I used this for a couple of days I couldn't face using Outlook on its own, I bought it and use it all the time.
 
- Download Managers
 
- FreshDownload
[www]
Desc:
A free download manager, which is very handy.
 
- Multi Function
 
- Sam Spade
[www]
Desc:
A great free utility with Ping, whois, finger and various other web functions: search a website, download a web site, and an html source browser.
 
- Accessibility Toolbar
[www]
Desc:
The Web Accessibility Toolbar software contains a range of Tools:
* To examine discrete aspects (structure/code/content) of a html document
* To facilitate the use of 3rd party applications
* To simulate the user experience of different users
along with a range of references and additional resources.
 
- Security
 
- Sygate Online Security Scan
[www]
Desc:
Check your setup for obvious vulnerabilities
 
- Filters
 
- proxomitron
[www]
Desc:
a free, highly flexible, user-configurable, small but very powerful, local HTTP web-filtering proxy
 
- webExtractor
[www]
Desc:
a Java application that is used for extracting specific content from web based HTML, XML, CSV, and free form text. The extracted data can be used for data gathering and mining purposes.
 
- httping
[www]
Desc:
ping for http
 
- Testing
 
- webtester
[www]
Desc:
Webtester is a java application intended to automate the process of testing and validating web based applications. By reading the necessary information from an XML configuration file, webtester is able to send data to specific URLs, and examine the responses. Regular expressions are used to validate the responses, and variables can be assigned based on the regular expressions in order to better test applications which generate data dynamically.
 
- Shells
Desc:
bash, cshell etc
 
- WinBash
[www]
 
- PowerShell XP2
[www]
Desc:
Adds functions to the context menu of windows XP
 
- Text Editors
 
- XEmacs
[www]
 
- Vim
[www]
 
- Context
[www]
Desc:
A free text editor that is simple and has a lot of highlighters.
 
- Crimson Editor
[www]
Desc:
A free text editor with macros and syntax highlighting. Built in FTP support.
 
- NoteTab Pro
[www]
Desc:
There are 3 versions of this popular text editor. All very cheap, the light version is free, standard is $9.95 and pro is $19.95.
 
- jEdit
[www]
 
- Leo
[www]
Desc:
A very interesting editor which is used for literate programming, and can act as an outliner.
 
- Edxor
[www]
Desc:
A text editor with a lot of handy features not found in other text editors for conversion of text, xor, rc4, hex etc.
 
- Hex Editors
 
- XVI32
[www]
Desc:
a freeware hex editor running under Windows
 
- Diagrammers and Modelling
 
- Mind Maps
 
- FreeMind
[www]
Desc:
A basic but free mind mapper.
 
- MindManager
[www]
 
- Graphs
Desc:
many of the tools in this category are not simple diagrammers and are fully fledged modelling tools.
 
- JGraph
[www]
Desc:
JGraph is a feature-rich, and thoroughly documented open-source graph component available for Java. It is accompanied by JGraphpad, the first free diagram editor for Java that offers XML, Drag and Drop and much more!
 
- Test Scenario Generator
[www]
Desc:
An interesting tool which models graphs to produce scenarios (paths).
 
- Graph Libraries
 
- JUNG Java Universal Network/Graph Framework
[www]
Desc:
a software library that provides a common and extendible language for the modeling, analysis, and visualization of data that can be represented as a graph or network
 
- HyperGraph
[www]
Desc:
java code to work with hyperbolic geometry and especially with hyperbolic trees. It provides a very extensible api to visualize hyperbolic geometry, to handle graphs and to layout hyperbolic trees.
 
- Suvi
[www]
Desc:
Java graph visualisation library
 
- Graph eXchange Language
[www]
Desc:
java package to read and manipulate the GXL format AND to provide a graphical editor
 
- GraphThing
[www]
Desc:
GraphThing is a tool that allows you to create, manipulate and study graphs
 
- UPPAAL
[www]
Desc:
Uppaal is an integrated tool environment for modeling, validation and verification of real-time systems modeled as networks of timed automata, extended with data types
 
- Hypergraph
[www]
Desc:
Java applet for visualising trees and graphs
 
- GoGraph
[www]
Desc:
Interactively learn graph theory
 
- Concept Modelling
 
- Compendium
[www]
Desc:
A java tool which becomes more interesting with every release. For hypertext modelling.
 
- UML
Desc:
It is always handy to be able to model using the normal techniques of software engineering. Probably the most common modelling language at the moment is UML.
 
- Argo UML
[www]
Desc:
A free and very thorough UML modelling tool.
 
- UMLet
[www]
Desc:
open-source lightweight Java tool for rapidly drawing UML diagrams. export diagrams to SVG, JPG and PDF formats
 
- Process Modelling
 
- Java Graphical Process Designer
[www]
 
- Open WorkFlow Engine
[www]
Desc:
OpenWFE is also a workflow management system. Could be an interesting way of modelling systems quickly for scenario test simulation
 
- DIA
[www]
Desc:
Dia is a flexible diagramming tool with so many supporting tools that it is hard to fit dia into a single category.
 
- Specifications
 
- TLA - The Temporal Logic of Actions
[www]
Desc:
TLA (the Temporal Logic of Actions) is a logic for specifying and reasoning about concurrent and reactive systems. It is the basis for TLA+, a complete specification language.
 
- Database design
 
- YAD Yet Another Database Designer
[www]
 
- Gaudi
Desc:
Build around JDBC and XML, this tool allows you to maintain visual repesentations of a database's layout, edit table's data, generate code to bind objects to tables, and export and import data in XML format to easely move data from one database to another
 
- StateCharts
 
- StateChart Virtual Machine
[www]
Desc:
Statechart virtual machine for simulation
 
- Compendium-TA
[www]
Desc:
Graphs, outlines, user defined entities. A generic modelling tool with support for paths and test script generation.
 
- FileManagement
 
- Comparisons
 
- WinMerge
[www]
Desc:
A free visual diff tool for file compares
 
- Beyond Compare
[www]
Desc:
A very useful diff/sync tool.
 
- JDirDiff
[www]
Desc:
GUI tool that compares two directories and merges differences
 
- TextDiff
[www]
Desc:
Folder and File Compares
 
- Find And Replace
 
- Agent Ransack
[www]
Desc:
A free file searching tool. Very fast and very flexible.
 
- TFM Search And Replace
[www]
Desc:
A simple tool to find and replace recursively
 
- Batch Replacer
[www]
Desc:
Batch text replacer
 
- THE Rename
[www]
Desc:
easy to use file rename utility. Saves having to teach Perl regex or use when perl not installed.
 
- BareGrep
[www]
Desc:
BareGrep is a tool for searching files. BareGrep works with both plain text files (including Windows/DOS and Unix formats) and binary files. It is possible to match both text strings and strings of binary data.
 
- File Manager
 
- abCommander
[www]
Desc:
a two pane windows explorer replacement, with hand built in text editor.
 
- A43
[www]
Desc:
A very handy little file manager which requires no install routine so no registry entries or dlls to ruin a client machine.
Build in text editor, hex editor and file viewer.
 
- Backups
Desc:
http://free-backup-software.net/index.htm
 
- Smart Sync
[www]
Desc:
This is now my (in the background) back up program.
SmartSync sits there and every hour or so, incrementally backs up changed
files on to the server. It can also backup changes over email and over ftp.
SmartSync Pro is currenly my backup tool of choice.
 
- Second Copy 2000
[www]
Desc:
Another option for background backups. Worth evalutating to see if this matches your needs.
 
- Version Control
 
- Keep-It
[www]
Desc:
This is a fantastic personal version control system.
i use it to keep multiple versions of documents that I write, without needing a centralised and large version control system.
 
- Perforce
[www]
Desc:
A very cost effective and industrial strength version control system (particularly if you only need two seats as it is then free).
 
- CVS
[www]
Desc:
CVS version control system
 
- CVS GUI
[www]
Desc:
GUIs for CVS
 
- VirDir Manager
[www]
Desc:
Easy Drive Mapping Software
 
- Duplicates
 
- CloneSpy
[www]
Desc:
CloneSpy detects and removes duplicate files.
 
- Archives
 
- Cryptography
 
- CrypTool
[www]
Desc:
CrypTool is a freeware program which enables you to apply and analyse cryptographic mechanisms
 
- File Recovery
 
- Handy Recovery
[www]
Desc:
The program can recover files damaged by virus attacks, power failures and software faults. If some program does not use Recycle Bin when deleting files, Handy Recovery can restore such files. It can also recover files moved to Recycle Bin after it has been emptied.
 
- Statistics
 
- WinDirStat
[www]
Desc:
WinDirStat is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for Microsoft Windows
 
- Network
 
- VNC
[www]
Desc:
VNC allows you to control machines remotely.
There are a lot of different versions of VNC available so look for one that meets your needs.
 
- Data Generation
 
- DGL
[www]
Desc:
An interesting specification and generation tool for test data.
 
- All Pairs
[www]
Desc:
James Bach's Perl script for generating test data.
 
- Combinatorial Test Services
[www]
Desc:
A C program for generating combinatorial test data.
 
- Jenny
[www]
Desc:
Another C program for generation combinatorial test cases.
 
- Multimedia
 
- Viewers And Converters
 
- XNView
[www]
Desc:
A free and efficient multimedia viewer/converter.
 
- Editors
 
- Scott's Box Shot Maker
[www]
Desc:
A tool to create those fake product box pictures that you see on web sites.
 
- Swish
[www]
Desc:
A great tool for doing simple flash animations.
 
- Sound
 
- DB Power Amp
[www]
Desc:
A free multi purpose audio converter which can convert between most audio formats.
 
- Clipboard Utilities
 
- ClipMate
[www]
Desc:
My favourite clipboard management utility.
Also captures screenshots direct to the clipboard.
 
- Yankee Clipper
[www]
Desc:
Free but not as fully featured as clipmate.
 
- Ditto
[www]
Desc:
A free utility to help manage your clipboard.
 
- ClipBoardiSHistory
[www]
Desc:
ClipBoardiSHistory can keep everypiece of ClipBoard text-information, upto 999 days worth OR Upto 999 items. information can be retrieved at any time and placed back into the clipboard with a few mouse-clicks
 
- Clippety Dlippety Do
[www]
Desc:
enhances the functionality of the Windows Clipboard
 
- ArsClip
[www]
Desc:
freeware clipboard utility with hotkeys
 
- FlashPaste
[www]
Desc:
FlashPaste lite - is a free utility for making it easier to enter the frequently used text blocks
 
- Programming
 
- Scripting
Desc:
Various install packages available here:
http://www.hotscripts.com/PHP/Software_and_Servers/Installation_Kits/
 
- Statistics and Data
 
- SciViews R GUI
[www]
Desc:
It may be buggy but this tool is the easiest way to start learning R, the incredibly powerful statistical processing language.
 
- R
[www]
Desc:
Free Cross platform language for statistical analysis.
 
- Orange
[www]
Desc:
A component framework that can be embedded in python and C for data mining and analysis.
 
- Algae
[www]
Desc:
a programming language for numerical analysis
 
- Active State Perl
[www]
Desc:
An easy to install and free version of Perl for windows.
 
- foxserv PHP, Apache, MySQL install
[www]
Desc:
A free installer for windows that will install and setup PHP, Apache and MySQL very quickly and easily.
 
- e-novative php
[www]
Desc:
An easy to use and setup PHP install that also installs mysql
 
- Asml
[www]
Desc:
From the microsoft research division comes a language which can be used to define abstract state machines. These can be visualised using Dot.
 
- F#
[www]
Desc:
Combining the safety and productivity of ML and Caml with the libraries, tools and cross-language working of .NET
 
- Documentation Systems
 
- Doxygen
[www]
Desc:
A source code documentation system
 
- RoboDoc
[www]
Desc:
ROBODoc is a documentation tool. It extracts the documentation from your source code and formats it in HTML, RTF, TeX, XML DocBook (PDF), or ASCII. Works with C, C++, Perl, Scripts, Tcl, FORTRAN, and any other language that supports remarks.
 
- Setup Tools
 
- InnoSetup
[www]
Desc:
One of the best free install makers available.
 
- ISTool
[www]
Desc:
An essential addon for InnoSetup
 
- Nullsoft Scriptable Install System
[www]
Desc:
A very flexible, free and scriptable, install making program.
 
- SFX Maker
[www]
Desc:
A self extracting zip archive maker, with an incredible amoutn of flexibility.
 
- ANTLR parser generator
[www]
Desc:
ANother Tool for Language Recognition, (formerly PCCTS) is a language tool that provides a framework for constructing recognizers, compilers, and translators from grammatical descriptions containing Java, C#, or C++ actions
 
- Emulation
 
- Bochs
[www]
Desc:
A free PC Emulator capable of running linux and windows.
If you want to emulate a mac then http://www.emaculation.com is the place to visit.
 
- Macros & Automation
 
- winFeedback
[www]
Desc:
An interesting tool for test automation.
 
- eventcorder
[www]
Desc:
An interesting capture playback testing system.
Currently available for free.
 
- AutoIt
[www]
Desc:
A scripting language for GUI automation. Has a DLL version which can be called from other languages.
 
- Vermont High Test
[www]
Desc:
A simple but capable GUI automation tool
 
- Phantom Test
[www]
Desc:
A simple, but usable test language and recorder for GUI automation.
 
- activeWords
[www]
Desc:
A user definable command word macro system.
 
- Test Complete
[www]
Desc:
A highly scriptable automation solution.
 
- Q1
[www]
Desc:
One for the evalutation list.
 
- MacroExpress
[www]
Desc:
A script based language for simple automation
 
- Web Automation
 
- WebTst
[www]
Desc:
an open-source test management tool aimed at creating and managing user-centric testing
 
- MCL
[www]
Desc:
MCL is a command line utility that allows you to run programs quickly and easily by typing the commands.
A free competitor for activewords
 
- AimTools
[www]
Desc:
A suite of macro automation tools
 
- Documentation
 
- PDF Moto
[www]
Desc:
This is an interesting tool for converting documents into PDF, which it then uploads to a website, so it could be useful for uploading your test status reports automatically to the web for viewing by others.
It monitors a directory and acts on the files as they are changed, keeping the destination directory up to date.
 
- Microsoft HTML Help Workshop
[www]
Desc:
HTML help is a very handy way of presenting information.
 
- FAR HTML
[www]
Desc:
One of the easiest ways of creating html help. But is also a very good Find And Replace tool
 
- Agata database reporting
[www]
Desc:
Database reporting utility, graphs and documents
 
- JSynoptic
[www]
Desc:
JSynoptic renders information graphically. It can be used as a simple graph plotter, or as a complex run-time monitoring environment. The user sets up shapes (like plots) on graphical pages, and uses data sources (ex: ASCII file) to render information.
 
- ReadySet
[www]
Desc:
Documentation Templates
 
- WinMine
[www]
Desc:
The WinMine Toolkit is a set of tools for Windows 2000/NT/XP that allow you to build statistical models from data. The majority of the tools are command-line executables that can be run in scripts.
 
- Open Modeling
[www]
Desc:
Open Modeling is a web-based application to model and publish business process models, procedures and related structured information. Not only publishing is done on the web, but modeling and maintaining the information (texts and diagrams) is done with the well known web browser.
 
- Loggers
 
- Key Loggers
[www]
Desc:
http://www.keylogger.org/
http://www.soft411.com/software/logger_1.html
http://www.webattack.com/freeware/security/fwaccessmonitoring.html
http://www.e-spy-software.com/link4.htm
Be very careful with keyloggers. Make sure you trust the company and tool as these could easily be spyware or backdoors in disguise.
Useful for logging test actions on the fly for reviewing or reporting on later. Some will capture screenshots at the same time.
I haven't really managed to get on with the keyloggers I have used, but they might be just the thing for your environment.
 
- SC-KeyLog 2.22
[www]
Desc:
A free and key logger - doesn't do screenshots.
 
- I-Spy
[www]
Desc:
logger, takes screenshots, free for 20 uses
 
- KeyLog Detector
[www]
Desc:
Is one acting as spyware on your machine? This tool can help find out.
 
- Spector Key Logger
[www]
Desc:
James Bach's and www.testpartners.co.uk's favourite key logger.
 
- abckeylogger
[www]
Desc:
A keylogger written in visual basic.
Also records a picture of the window in focus. Easy to view the logs as they are stored in an rtf file. There is a password protected viewer supplied.
 
- Pal Keylog pro
[www]
 
- Desktop Management
 
- Virtual Dimension
[www]
Desc:
A free virtual desktop manager for windows.
 
- XML
 
- VEX - Visual XML Editor
[www]
Desc:
An xml editor for visual document based XSLT e.g. docbook.
 
- Cooktop XML editor
[www]
Desc:
a free XML editor for windows
 
- Flexycontent
[www]
Desc:
An interesting XML frontend
 
- Xray
[www]
Desc:
A useful editor for beginners.
 
- Oxygen
[www]
Desc:
This is the XML editor that I use for most of my XML work and I like it.
 
- rtf2xml
[www]
Desc:
convert all properties in Microsoft's proprietary RTF format to structured XML
 
- Tiny RML2PDF
[www]
Desc:
Tiny RML2PDF is a tool to create PDF document. It can be used as a Python library or as a standalone binary. It converts a RML, a XML dialect that lets you define the precise appearance of a printed document, to a PDF.
 
- AurigaDoc
[www]
Desc:
AurigaDoc is a java-xml-xsl based documentation tool for writing xml documents and converting them to other open formats like HTML(single and multi page), DHTML, PDF, PostScript, Formatting Object(FO), RTF, Java Help and HTML Help(.chm)
 
- Flash
 
- Kinetic Fusion
[www]
Desc:
A converter between Flash SWF and XML. Can be used as a decompiler/compiler.
 
- System Utilities
Desc:
A great source for system utilities is www.sysinternals.com
 
- Diagnostics
 
- System Information
 
- Aida32
[www]
Desc:
Aida32 is free and is a great diagnostic reporting tool. I use it during
beta testing to give my victim (erm, author of the software) a really good
understanding of the environment I am testing their software on.
 
- Install Watchers
 
- Install Rite
[www]
Desc:
Free software for recording the modifications made during an install. Essential for testers.
 
- Startup control Panel
[www]
Desc:
configure which programs run when your computer starts
 
- Monitoring
 
- Debug View
[www]
Desc:
A monitor for debug messages under windows
 
- Process Change Detection System
[www]
Desc:
A perl script for monitoring ps commands
 
- CPU Mon
[www]
Desc:
Very detailed performance monitor
 
- DirJack Directory Watcher
[www]
Desc:
A free tool for monitoring directories for changes.
 
- InstallSpy
[www]
Desc:
Track any and all changes to the registry and file system, and also record all shell notification events (e.g. media inserted), when a program is installed, uninstalled, or run.
 
- BareTail
[www]
Desc:
BareTail is a real-time file viewing utility. Like the Unix tail -f utility, it can be used to view the end of a growing file. It is ideal for viewing application traces or server logs in real time, as they are generated. BareTail supports large files
 
- systemometer
[www]
Desc:
An interesting process and memory monitor
 
- GNUWin32
[www]
Desc:
windows ports of GNU unix utilities
 
- CD Utitlities
Desc:
Useful for working with emulators.
 
- Burn4Free
[www]
Desc:
Burn4Free is a useful little tool for creating iso images for use with Virtual PC
 
- CDmage - CD image handling tool
[www]
Desc:
Converts from different CD image formats to others, and can work with the images directly.
 
- Regular Expressions
 
- Boolean Expression Reducer
[www]
Desc:
visualize and analyze boolean expressions
 
- Kodos Python Regular Expression debugger
[www]
Desc:
An interesting tool for learning regex
 
- CFRegEx
[www]
Desc:
A regular expression explorer
 
- Installation Checking
 
- ICheck
[www]
Desc:
Check enables the user to perform a quick quality check on the installation of any Windows application. Based on a file that contains the expected file details, it compares that information to the files located on the local computer.
 
- Database Tools
 
- Octopus
[www]
Desc:
Octopus is a simple Java-based Extraction, Transformation, and Loading (ETL) tool. It may connect to any JDBC data sources and perform transformations defined in an XML file
data models are supported by generating oid's for new objects. Natural keys can be used to insert/update existing data and create relationships with oid's.
A loadjob-generator is provided to generate Octopus loadjob skeletons (and even DODS DOML files !) from an existing database. Many different types of databases can be mixed (MSSQL, Oracle, DB2, QED, JDBC-ODBC with Excel and Access, MySQL, CSV-files, XML-files,...) Three special JDBC drivers come with Octopus to support JDBC access to CSV-files (CSV-JDBC), MS-SQL (FreeTDS) and XML