Creating a Software Testing Environment Using FreeBSD
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## Creating a Software Testing Environment Using FreeBSD

### Chris McMahon

`<christopher.mcmahon@gmail.com>`

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Abstract

A slightly altered version of this paper was first published in the Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference Proceedings, 2005.

## 1. Overview

From late 2003 until early 2005, I was a tester in an all-Windows® environment. Although unlikely on the face of it, FreeBSD became a valuable test tool platform in that context. FreeBSD contains useful and powerful applications for any tester in any environment.

Unlike Linux, FreeBSD is a single monolithic project, rather than a collection of disparate parts assembled into a distribution. And the most attractive part of FreeBSD for a software tester is the FreeBSD Ports Collection—a very large, managed set of software applications with a single, simple, and uniform installation procedure.

This paper describes several software test tools from the FreeBSD Ports Collection that I used to test software and systems in an all-Windows environment.

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