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

Some More Tools Of Late

MyMobiler for Windows Mobile
http://www.mymobiler.com/windowsmobile.html


Windows Mobile Developer Power Toys
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=10601


Windows Mobile Device Center (WMDC) (wikipedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Mobile_Device_Center


Virtual Box XP Images:
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/download-windows-xp-for-free-and-legally-straight-from-microsoft-si/
http://www.modern.ie/en-us/virtualization-tools#downloads

VMWare vSphere Hypervisor (free, supposedly)
http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere-hypervisor/gettingstarted.html

VMWare (Wikipedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMware_ESX

RDBMS (MySQL)
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/

RDBMS (Navicat)
http://www.navicat.com/

RDBMS (phpMyAdmin)
http://www.phpmyadmin.net

SmartBear SW
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SmartBear_Software

ICSharp Tools (especially, SharpDevelop)
http://www.icsharpcode.net/

Other Test Tools Of Late

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

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

Cucumber
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cucumber_(software)

Cucumber Related Tools
https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber/wiki/Related-tools

Curl-Loader
http://curl-loader.sourceforge.net/

Gherkin BNF (sorta)
https://github.com/cucumber/gherkin/wiki/BNF

Gherkin (more info)
https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber/wiki/Gherkin

Gherkin Language Reference (fuels Cucumber family)
https://github.com/cucumber/gherkin/wiki

Lettuce (Python module based on Cucumber for BDD)
http://lettuce.it/intro/overview.html

Packer (operates in various VM ecosystems)
http://www.packer.io/

Pickle
https://github.com/ianwhite/pickle

Ragel
http://www.complang.org/ragel/

Relish
https://www.relishapp.com/

Robot Framework
http://robotframework.org/
https://code.google.com/p/robotframework/

Selenium
http://docs.seleniumhq.org/

Specflow (pragmatic BDD for .Net)
http://www.specflow.org/

Test Anything Protocol (TAP)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_Anything_Protocol

Vagrant (to re-create VMs)
http://www.vagrantup.com/

Virtual Box
https://www.virtualbox.org/

Watir WebDriver
http://watirwebdriver.com/

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

Mobile Application Test Automation

Google: "Mobile Application Test Automation"
http://automationtestingblog.blogspot.com/2013/01/mobile-application-test-automation.html

EggPlant (scripting language: "senseTalk")
http://www.testplant.com/eggPlant

M-eux (Jamosolutions, supports Resco for .NET Compact Frameworks)
http://www.jamosolutions.com

Resco Toolkit:
http://www.resco.net/mobileformstoolkit/

Sikuli (can use Python as a scripting language, makes use of Jython technology)
http://www.sikuli.org/
http://doc.sikuli.org/                   (Documentation)
https://github.com/sikuli/sikuli     (GitHub site)
https://launchpad.net/sikuli         (Sikuli Base Site, "launchpad")

Sikuli vs Eggplant:
http://testwarriors.blogspot.com/2012/04/comparison-report-sikuli-vs-eggplant.html

SOTI - MobiControl
http://www.soti.net/mobicontrol/

Splunk

Dig into Splunk
http://www.splunk.com/

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