Open source resources

I haven't had much time to write lately, but I have been doing a lot of thinking about the Open Testing concept and where I want to take it. More on that soon.

I've added links to open source projects that are actively seeking testers. I'll continue to add links to this area as I run across them.

I've also added links for several Open Source directories. One of the most interesting I found is Ohloh.

Ohloh is both a user community and a source code crawler and metrics tool. Ohloh users submit open source projects, list which one they use, and Ohloh collects code and developer metrics automatically. For example, here is the listing for the Linux kernel and Linus Torvald's contributions to it. Wow.

The combination of community and code crawler such as Ohloh is a powerful one that would be useful for creating a community around the idea of open testing as well. I can easily envision Ohloh or a similar tool being used to track tester contributions to test code and bug reports on open source projects, for example.

I joined Ohloh and added a listing for Watij, an open source testing tool I use. I'll add or contribute to listings for other open source testing tools I use over the next few days.