Open Source Design Software

Ruler is a lightweight tool for Windows. It allows you to measure the size and distance between elements on the screen in pixels.

Duplicated source code can harm maintainability of software systems. Duplo is a tool to find duplicated code blocks in large C, C++, Java, C# and VB.Net systems.

Orizon is a framework intended to provide tools and facilities to test java sources for security flaws. The main goal is to detect common threats as described in Owasp top 10 vulnerability document.

ATS4 AppModel is an application flow design tool supporting application specification work, model based testing and test script generation. It provides simple interface to manage complex models. ATS4 AppModel is part of Nokia ATS tool family.

AntDefects is a web-based issue tracking system that makes handling of software related issues, bugs, or defects in your organization easier than ever before.

ArchMapper is a Tool for mapping architecture descriptions of a program to a Java implementation. It offers two main functions: Generating Java source code stubs from an architecture and checking a Java implementation for conformance with an architecture

Bark is a software developer's design watchdog. It is an Eclipse plugin that analyzes your system as you develop it and helps you to remain faithful to your design or to evolve it in a controlled manner.

Buildap is a Visual Component Based Development framework. It is available as standalone tool as well as Netbeans and Eclipse plugins. SVG viewer/editor and Diagram Editor are also available. See Buildap powered project at http://e-records.buildap.com/.

CODERU is a java code quality tool to enforce good structure in respect to packages and therefore modules dependencies. CODERU is an achronym and stands for Common Dependency Rules. The CODERU-rules rely on reserved package names and the allowed dependency rules between them expressed in a general way. Unlike other tools forcing you to define allowed or disallowed individual package dependencies CODERU is based on a fixed set of general rules. The dependencies between packages need not be defined explicitly. These general dependency rules are based on common design practices what is reflected in preserved package names: "api", "common", "impl" and "factory". As an integral part of CODERU there is a tool checking your code for rules conformance. See coderu rule description on http://coderu.org .

A openArchitectureWare based Generator for deriving a WS-Agreement document from a formal description of a (Web-)Service and its associated assertions (SLO) to Quality Of Service (QoS). You can use predefined QoS parameters as well as introduce new ones.

Catsfoot provides to C++ concept checking, overloading with concepts and concept testing to C++ 2011 as a library.

CodeNarc is a static analysis tool for Groovy source code, enabling monitoring and enforcement of many coding standards and best practices. CodeNarc applies predefined and/or custom rules to each Groovy file, and generates an HTML or XML report. This project has been moved to https://github.com/CodeNarc/CodeNarc.

*** This tool has been superseded by ".Net Architecture Checker" at https://sourceforge.net/projects/dotnetarchitect/ ***. (ILDASM-Dependency Checker checks code dependencies in .Net projects to ensure a stable architecture).

JLayerCheck checks package dependencies in Java projects to ensure that they match the desired architecture. Packages are grouped into modules and dependencies are specified. It can also find cycles and orphaned classes.

This project provides a full set of Interfaces and Classes that naturally brings the developer to follow the "Gang of Four" Design Patterns while producing software

Lifecycle Manager allows software engineers to manage all stages in the development lifecycle without losing any knowledge of decisions and changes. This system is a groupware knowledge management system for software development.

Design by Contract allows a programmer to document a function/class with statements describing behavior. Metacontract implements the PEP-0316 related to this feature for the Python language using meta classes.

NFitnesse is an emulation of the popular Fitnesse Wiki and Test server that can be hosted under IIS

Nmdepend is a lightweight 'link-time' dependency analyzer for C++. It uses object files and libraries instead of source-code as input. It can help to manage 'cross-directory' dependencies. Dependencies can be visualized in combination with Graphviz.

The Open Code Quality Project offers Static Code Analyses as an free Online-Service for Open Source Code. Simply send your code, start the scan, receive the results.

Orc is a embedded language for orchestrating concurrent and distributed programming. It can ensure safe, dead-lock free concurrent execution. This is an implementation of Orc semantics for the .NET framework.

PHPCheckclipse is an Eclipse-Plugin that enables Checkstyle features for PHP developement. This means PHPCheckclipse checks your code for coding standards while you are typing.

STDProject (Simple Tree Driven Project) is a modeling tool for software development projects. It will let you build your project, watch its consistency, generate documentation and reuse work from one project to another.

The aim of this project is to create a typesystem like haskell, which aids the developer by preventing type-related bugs. This project will help simplify the typesystem of javascript it by making it more strict.

Specter is an object-behaviour specification framework for .NET and Mono. It enables behavior driven development (BDD) by allowing developers to write executable specifications for their objects, before actually implementing them.