Awesome tools for software development, testing and productivity

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Five free and open source tools to test your mailing features confidently

• FakeSMTP (Java)
• rumbster (Ruby)
• fake-smtp-server (Node.js)
• mailinator
• testmail dot app
• mailtrap

Build personal robotic process automation with these cool tools

• Windows
  • Powershell
  • Batch
  • AutoIt
  • AutoHotKey
  • VBScript
• Mac
  • Automator
  • Apple Script
• iOS
  • Shortcuts App
• Unix/Linux
  • Bash
  • Sed
  • Awk
  • Expect
  • Cron Tab
• Web
  • IFTT
  • Zapier
  • Automate.io
  • huginn

Build cool IoT projects with Arduino tools

• Arduino IDE - The open-source Arduino Software (IDE) makes it easy to write code and upload it to the board. It runs on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. The environment is written in Java and based on Processing and other open-source software.
• Codebender - Arduino IDE in the Cloud. Codebender includes a Arduino web editor so you can code, store and manage your Arduino sketches on the cloud.
• Fritzing - Fritzing is an open-source hardware initiative that makes electronics accessible as a creative material for anyone. It allows users to document their prototypes, share them with others, teach electronics in a classroom, and layout and manufacture professional pcbs.
• circuito.io - circuito.io is an online tool for designing and testing electronic circuits.
• Tinkercad - Tinkercad is a free, online 3D modeling program that runs in a web browser, known for its simplicity and ease of use.
• johnny-five - Johnny-Five is the JavaScript library for Robotics & IoT Platform.
• pyFirmata - pyFirmata is the Python library for Firmata Protocol used in Arduino._

Free and open source tools for checking visual regression bugs

• Gemnini - Hermione - Hermione is a utility for integration testing of web pages using WebdriverIO v4 and Mocha. Comes with assertions to support visual regression testing.
• Backstop.js - visual regression testing for web apps. Uses Chrome-headless and Puppeteer scripting using JavaScript.
• Needle - Needle is a tool for testing CSS and visuals with Selenium and nose using Python.
• pix-diff - A lightweight protractor plugin for image comparison.
• Visual Regression Tracker - Open source, self hosted solution for visual testing and managing results of visual testing.
• Storyshots - StoryShots is integration between Storybook.js and Jest Snapshot Testing.
• Galen - Automated testing of look and feel for your responsive websites. Galen is implemented in Java.
• Loki - Tool to test Storybook.js project for visual regressions.
• Creevy - Tool to test Storybook.js project for visual regressions.
• Vizregress - _A visual regressions tool on .NET platform

Great developer tools made with Electron.js

• VSCode
• Postman
• Cypress.io
• Insomania
• Appium Desktop
• Mockoon
• Postbird
• MongoDB Commpass

Free and open source tools to get rid of your testing data woes

• Mockaroo
• JSON Generator
• Generatedata
• faker for Node
• faker for Java
• faker for Python
• faker for Ruby
• dummy-json
• JSONPlaceholder

Open source and free HTTP mocking, stubbing and service virtualisation tools to speed up your development and testing

• JSON Server
• My JSON Server
• Wiremock
• MockServer
• MounteBank
• Stubby4j
• Nock
• Mokcy
• Pact.js
• qontract.run
• Mockoon
• LocalMockServer
• mockserver-ui
• wiremock-ui
• Atmo
• Castlemock

Tools for Behaviour Driven Development (BDD)

• Cucumber - Java, Ruby, JavaScript, TypeScript, Go
• JBehave - Java
• SpecFlow.NET - .NET
• Behave - Python
• Lettuce - Python
• Behat - PHP.
• Spek - Kotlin
• EasyB - JVM
• Cucumberish - Xcode
• Serenity BDD - Java, JavaScript

Cool x-ray tools to Debug, Test or Investigate software and apps

• Fiddler
• Charles Proxy - Paid
• Wireshark
• React Developer Tools
• Augury
• Vu-devtools
• JD-GUI - Java
• ILSpy - .NET
• adb - Android
• BrowserMob Proxy

Open source load testing tools to build blazingly fast applications

• JMeter
• Locust - Uses Python
• Artillery - Uses JavaScript
• k6 - Uses JavaScript
• Gatling - Uses Scala

Top Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools for AWS Cloud

• AWS CloudFormation
• AWS CDK
• Terraform
• Pulumi

Make your automated tests eloquent with these awesome assertion libraries in Java and Kotlin

• AssertJ
• Hamcrest - also supported on multiple other languages
• Truth - Java & Android
• Strikt - Kotlin
• Atrium - Kotlin

Five Java Libraries to amplify your automated testing

• JSONUnit
• XMLUnit
• DBUnit
• ArchUnit - Tests architecture aspects of Java Code
• PDFUnit - Paid

Eight e2e testing tools for Node.js, JavaScript and TypeScript

• Cypress.io
• Webdriver.io
• Nightwatch.js
• Codecept.js
• Puppeteer
• Playwright
• Testcafe
• Taiko
• UIlicious - Paid

Five essential tools for Developers on macOS

• iTerm2
• Homebrew
• VSCode
• Postman
• Docker Desktop

Six tools to run effective remote and virtual online retrospective meetings for Agile delivery teams

• IdeaBoardz
• FunRetro
• Trello
• MIRO
• TeamRetro
• Retro.tools

Top five Continuous Integration (CI) tools to supercharge your builds

• Jenkins
• GitHub Actions
• GitLab CI
• CircleCI
• Travis CI

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