The Upcoming Year (2015) Of The Java Ecosystem With Test Automation

Tools:

• JDK
• Maven (consider transitioning to Gradle)
• Git / GitHub
• IntelliJ (JetBrains)
• Cucumber
• Jenkins (?)

Gradle Links

Gradle Documentation
http://www.gradle.org/documentation

Gradle Home Link
http://www.gradle.org/

Gradle Wikipedia Link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gradle

Cassandra Links

Cassandra Query Language (CQL) v3.1.7
https://cassandra.apache.org/doc/cql3/CQL.html

Cassandra Wiki (Client Options)
https://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/ClientOptions

Datastax Cassandra Ruby Driver (As of 20141209, this is current Ruby driver to use)
https://github.com/datastax/ruby-driver

Datastax Cassandra Ruby Driver Documentation
http://datastax.github.io/ruby-driver/

Up and Running With Cassandra (like Google's BigTable)
http://blog.evanweaver.com/2009/07/06/up-and-running-with-cassandra/

Ruby IDEs

RubyMine (by JetBrains)
https://www.jetbrains.com/ruby/

Ruby MQTT Resources

Pure Ruby Gem
https://github.com/njh/ruby-mqtt

https://rubygems.org/gems/mqtt

http://www.rubydoc.info/gems/mqtt/frames  (better doc presentation)

Install: gem install mqtt

Capybara - (Ruby Library)

Capybara (Ruby Library) -- Something to look into:

http://jnicklas.github.io/capybara/

SitePrism -- is used to supply a Page Object Model that can be used with Capybara.

https://github.com/natritmeyer/site_prism

Minimalist HTTP Server Links C#

Embedded .NET HTTP Server
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/25050/Embedded-NET-HTTP-Server

Simple HTTP Server in C#
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/137979/Simple-HTTP-Server-in-C

PowerShell Links

Run PowerShell Scripts From Task Scheduler
http://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/show/17736-run-powershell-scripts-from-task-scheduler

Weekend Scripter: Use the Windows Task Scheduler to Run a Windows PowerShell Script
http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2012/08/11/weekend-scripter-use-the-windows-task-scheduler-to-run-a-windows-powershell-script.aspx

Windows PowerShell 2.0 Commands
http://ss64.com/ps/

Apache Derby / H2 / H20 Database Engines

Apache Derby
http://db.apache.org/derby/

H2 Database Engine
http://www.h2database.com/html/main.html

H20 Database Engine
http://blogs.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/h2o/
https://code.google.com/p/h2o-database/

Developing Android Apps Using Ruby

Learn Ruby The Hard Way
http://ruby.learncodethehardway.org/

Ruboto
http://ruboto.org/

Ruby Learning
http://rubylearning.com/

Ruby (base link; English)
https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/

Ruby Conferences
https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/community/conferences/

Calabash Links

Calabash Android Tutorial
http://referenceforu.blogspot.com/2013/08/calabash-android-tutorial.html

Google Groups calabash-android
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/calabash-android

Linux and Windows Installation
http://knowledgestack.wordpress.com/2013/05/25/calaba-sh-automated-acceptance-test-for-mobile-apps/

Android Resources

App Inventor for Android - MIT Link
http://appinventor.mit.edu/explore/

App Inventor for Android - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/App_Inventor_for_Android

Android - Rooting
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rooting_(Android_OS)

Android Software Development - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_software_development

Android Studio
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_Studio

Some Good Behavior Driven Development (BDD) Links

Behavior Driven Development (Wikipedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavior-driven_development

Business Readable DSL
http://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/BusinessReadableDSL.html

Cucumber Wiki
https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber/wiki

Cucumber (Official Site)
http://cukes.info/

Dan North - What's In A Story?
http://dannorth.net/whats-in-a-story/

Gherkin Wiki
https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber/wiki/Gherkin

Given, When, Then
https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber/wiki/Given-When-Then

Google Test Automation

Google Test Automation Conference
https://developers.google.com/google-test-automation-conference/

Google Testing Blog
http://googletesting.blogspot.com/

Test Android Mobile Apps With Appium

Appium base link
http://appium.io/index.html?lang=en

Sauce Labs
https://saucelabs.com

Slide Show Comparing Various Android Automation Frameworks
http://www.slideshare.net/bitbar/different-android-test-automation-framework-what-works-you-the-best

Testing Android and iOS Mobile Apps With Calabash

Calabash base link:
http://calaba.sh/

Backed by Xamarin

Notable Freelance Sites

Elance
https://www.elance.com/

Freelancer
http://www.freelancer.com/

Developing Android Apps Using Python

Linux Journal Article: "Python for Android" (lot's of tips)
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10940?page=0,0

PyCon PL 2013 "Developing Android Applications with Python"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWyUgn8oAaQ

Presentation: "Writing Standalone Qt & Python Applications for Android
http://www.modrana.org/pyconpl2013/python_and_qt_for_android.pdf

Python Download Site:
https://www.python.org/download

Garmin Nuvi 2555 Stuff (esp GPX files)

Editor for GPX files
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gpxeditor/

Extracting Track Log (gpx) from Garmin
http://home.comcast.net/~ghayman3/garmin.gps/page6.htm

GPX files are in the following location on this Garmin: Internal Storage\GPX

More generalized, useful conversion (GPSBabel)
http://www.gpsbabel.org/

Cool Android Apps

AutoGuard Blackbox
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hovans.autoguard

GPSLogger (by "mendhak")
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mendhak.gpslogger
http://code.mendhak.com/gpslogger/

Python Related Web Technologies

HTTP Methods: GET vs. POST
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_httpmethods.asp

Python WebFrameworks
https://wiki.python.org/moin/WebFrameworks

Lighttpd

How To Run lighttpd as a Windows Service
http://www.coretechnologies.com/products/AlwaysUp/Apps/RunLighttpdAsAService.html

Lighttpd - light-weight HTTPD
http://www.lighttpd.net/

Simple Common Gateway Interface (replacement for CGI and similar to FastCGI)
http://www.python.ca/scgi/protocol.txt

Web Development With Python
http://www.fredshack.com/docs/pythonweb.html

Wikipedia link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lighttpd

Windows Download
http://en.wlmp-project.net/downloads.php?cat=lighty

WSGI org Home Page Docs
http://wsgi.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

WSGI (Howto with Lighttpd2)
http://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/lighttpd2/wiki/Howto_WSGI

WSGI (PEP 333)
http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0333/

WSGI - Python's Secret Web Weapon
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2006/09/27/introducing-wsgi-pythons-secret-web-weapon.html

GPSD Links

GPSD home page:
http://www.catb.org/gpsd/

Vector Links (CANoe, RP1210)

Abstract Syntax Notation (ASN.1)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASN.1

NMEA 0183 reference
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NMEA_0183

Vector (CANoe environment):
http://vector.com/vi_canoe_en.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CANoe (Wikipedia reference)

Vector Reference:
http://vector.com/vi_rp1210_api_en.html

Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) Tools for Python

Behave
http://pythonhosted.org/behave/

Behave - Changing Step Definition Parsing
http://jenisys.github.io/behave.example/step_matcher/re_matcher.html

Behave Examples and Tutorials (Excellent!!!)
http://jenisys.github.io/behave.example/

Behave - Feature Testing Setup
http://behave.readthedocs.org/en/latest/gherkin.html

Behave - GitHub Link
https://github.com/behave/behave

Lettuce versus Behave
http://fortylines.com/blog/LettuceVsBehave.blog

Lettuce
http://lettuce.it/

BeagleBoard

BeagleBoard
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeagleBone#BeagleBone

BeagleBoard Official Site
http://beagleboard.org/

Additional Test Automation Tools - Jan 2014

Earth Bridge (designed to bridge gap between GPS receiver and Google Earth)
http://mboffin.com/earthbridge/

Relish (primary author - PN employee)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/relish/

Ethernet To Serial Bridging Technologies

Comtrol
http://www.comtrol.com/

Digi
http://www.digi.com/

Perle Systems
http://www.perle.com/

MSFT To Android Porting Tools

iFactr (commercial solution)
http://ifactr.com/

Monocross
http://monocross.net/

Monocross - What is it?
http://objectiveme.com/monocross-part-1/

MvvmCross
https://github.com/MvvmCross

Cloud Information

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Python
http://aws.amazon.com/articles/Amazon-S3/3998

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Python "boto" Interface
http://docs.pythonboto.org/en/latest/

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Relational Database Service (RDS)
http://aws.amazon.com/rds/

Home Automation / Security

2lemtry
http://www.2lemetry.com/

2lemetry API
http://www.2lemetry.com/api

Mosquitto API Doc
http://mosquitto.org/api/files/mosquitto-h.html

MQTT (MQ Telemetry Transport)
http://mqtt.org/

Very Simple Control Protocol
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_Simple_Control_Protocol

Very Simple Control Protocol (Home Page)
http://www.vscp.org/

J1708 / J1939 / CAN bus Related Links

CAN bus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controller_Area_Network

CAN Newsletter Online
http://can-newsletter.org/

Engine Control Unit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engine_control_unit

Equipment and Tool Institute
http://www.etools.org/

Fleet Management System (Interface)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleet_Management_System

J1708
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J1708

J1939
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J1939

J1939 Standards Collection
http://store.sae.org/j1939/contents/

On Board Diagnostics (OBD)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On-board_diagnostics

On Board Diagnostic Codes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_OBD-II_Codes