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ZAP
The OWASP ZAP core project
The OWASP Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) is one of the world’s most popular free security tools and is actively maintained by a dedicated international team of volunteers. It can help you automatically find security vulnerabilities in your web applications while you are developing and testing your applications. It's also a great tool for experienced pentesters to use for manual security testing. ZAP is an easy to use integrated penetration testing tool for finding vulnerabilities in web applications. It is designed to be used by people with a wide range of security experience and as such is ideal for developers and functional testers who are new to penetration testing. ZAP provides automated scanners as well as a set of tools that allow you to find security vulnerabilities manually. It stands between the tester’s browser and the web application so that it can intercept and inspect messages sent between browser and web application. -
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Reactotron
Desktop app for inspecting your React JS and React Native projects
Reactotron is a macOS, Windows, and Linux app for inspecting your React JS and React Native apps. View your application state, show API requests & responses, perform quick performance benchmarks, subscribe to parts of your application state, display messages similar to console.log, track global errors with source-mapped stack traces including saga stack traces! You can dispatch actions like a government-run mind control experiment, hot swap your app's state using Redux or mobx-state-tree, track your sagas, show image overlay in React Native, track your Async Storage in React Native, etc. You plug it into your app as a dev dependency so it adds nothing to your product builds. Reactotron, as an open source project, is free to use and always will be. -
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PerfView
PerfView is a CPU and memory performance-analysis tool
PerfView is a free performance analysis tool that helps isolate CPU and memory-related performance issues. It is a Windows tool, but it also has some support for analyzing data collected on Linux machines. It works for a wide variety of scenarios, but has a number of special features for investigating performance issues in code written for the .NET runtime. If you are unfamiliar with PerfView, there are PerfView video tutorials. Also, Vance Morrison's blog gives an overview and getting started information. PerfView is built on a library called Microsoft.Diagnostics.Tracing.TraceEvent, which knows how to both collect and parse Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) data. Thus if there is any information that PerfView collects and processes that you would like to manipulate yourself programmatically, you would probably be interested in the TraceEvent Library Documentation. -
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PM2
Node.js Production Process Manager with a built-in Load Balancer
PM2 (Process Manager 2) is a production process manager with its own built-in load-balancer for Node.js applications. If you want battle-hardened Node.js applications that can be monitored and kept alive forever, PM2 is the way to go. PM2 lets you manage, maintain and increase Node.js performance. It is constantly assailed by over 1800 tests so you can deliver high quality applications, and deploy confidently and more often. PM2 is cross-platform and arguably the most widely-used process manager for Node.js with over 100 million downloads. Setting it up is easy, it just takes a couple of minutes and one simple command. -
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pipx
Install and run Python applications in isolated environments
pipx is a tool to help you install and run end-user applications written in Python. It's roughly similar to macOS's brew, JavaScript's npx, and Linux's apt. It's closely related to pip. In fact, it uses pip, but is focused on installing and managing Python packages that can be run from the command line directly as applications. pip is a general-purpose package installer for both libraries and apps with no environment isolation. pipx is made specifically for application installation, as it adds isolation yet still makes the apps available in your shell: pipx creates an isolated environment for each application and its associated packages. pipx does not ship with pip, but installing it is often an important part of bootstrapping your system. By default, pipx uses the same package index as pip, PyPI. pipx can also install from all other sources pip can, such as a local directory, wheel, git url, etc. -
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Karate
Test automation made simple
Karate is the only open-source tool to combine API test-automation, mocks, performance-testing and even UI automation into a single, unified framework. The BDD syntax popularized by Cucumber is language-neutral, and easy for even non-programmers. Assertions and HTML reports are built-in, and you can run tests in parallel for speed. There’s also a cross-platform stand-alone executable for teams not comfortable with Java. You don’t have to compile code. Just write tests in a simple, readable syntax, carefully designed for HTTP, JSON, GraphQL and XML. And you can mix API and UI test-automation within the same test script. A Java API also exists for those who prefer to programmatically integrate Karate’s rich automation and data-assertion capabilities. It is worth pointing out that JSON is a ‘first class citizen’ of the syntax such that you can express payload and expected data without having to use double-quotes and without having to enclose JSON field names in quotes. -
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Phoronix Test Suite
Open-Source, Automated Benchmarking
The Phoronix Test Suite is the most comprehensive testing and benchmarking platform available that provides an extensible framework for which new tests can be easily added. The Phoronix Test Suite is designed to effectively carry out both benchmarks in a clean, reproducible, and easy-to-use manner. -
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KeepingYouAwake
Prevents your Mac from going to sleep
KeepingYouAwake is a small menu bar utility for macOS (Version 10.12 and newer) that can prevent your Mac from entering sleep mode for a predefined duration or as long as it is activated. The app is a small wrapper around Apple's caffeinate command line utility. All current versions of macOS ship with this tool by default. On a MacBook this only works as long as the lid is open. This utility will not harm your Mac because it is based on an official command line tool by Apple. Version 1.5.2 is the latest release that supports macOS Yosemite and El Capitan. KeepingYouAwake uses Sparkle's ui-separation-and-xpc branch to deliver updates. You can build and sign Sparkle with make Vendor. To build a release version of the app just run make dist. -
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Nuke
Image loading system
Nuke ILS provides an efficient way to download and display images in your app. It's easy to learn and use thanks to a clear and concise API. Its architecture enables many powerful features while offering virtually unlimited possibilities for customization. Despite the number of features, the framework is lean and compiles in just under 3 seconds¹. Nuke has an automated test suite 2x the size of the codebase itself, ensuring excellent reliability. Every feature is carefully designed and optimized for performance. Fast LRU memory cache, native HTTP disk cache, and custom aggressive LRU disk cache. Customize image pipeline using built-in Alamofire, Gifu, FLAnimatedImage, WebP plugins or create your own. Enable progressive decoding with a single line of code. Nuke supports progressive JPEG out of the box, and WebP via a plugin built by the community. Automatically prefetch images ahead of time using either Preheat or native table and collection view prefetching APIs. -
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Playwright for .NET
.NET version of the Playwright testing and automation library
Playwright for .NET is the official language port of Playwright, the library to automate Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API. Playwright is built to enable cross-browser web automation that is ever-green, capable, reliable and fast. Cross-browser. Playwright supports all modern rendering engines including Chromium, WebKit, and Firefox. Cross-platform. Test on Windows, Linux, and macOS, locally or on CI, headless or headed. Cross-language. Use the Playwright API in TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, .NET, Java. Test Mobile Web. Native mobile emulation of Google Chrome for Android and Mobile Safari. The same rendering engine works on your Desktop and in the Cloud. Auto-wait. Playwright waits for elements to be actionable prior to performing actions. It also has a rich set of introspection events. The combination of the two eliminates the need for artificial timeouts - the primary cause of flaky tests. -
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Playwright for Python
Python version of the Playwright testing and automation library
Playwright enables reliable end-to-end testing for modern web apps. Single API to automate Chromium, Firefox and WebKit. Capable automation for single page apps that rely on the modern web platform. Use the Playwright API in JavaScript & TypeScript, Python, .NET and, Java. With Playwright, test how your app behaves in Apple Safari with WebKit builds for Windows, Linux and macOS. Test locally and on CI. Use device emulation to test your responsive web apps in mobile web browsers. Playwright supports headless (without browser UI) and headed (with browser UI) modes for all browsers and all platforms. Headed is great for debugging, and headless is faster and suited for CI/cloud executions. Playwright interactions auto-wait for elements to be ready. This improves reliability and simplifies test authoring. Playwright receives browser signals, like network requests, page navigations and page load events to eliminate the need for sleep timeouts that cause flakiness. -
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Zerocopy
Zerocopy makes zero-cost memory manipulation effortless
Zerocopy is a Rust library designed to make zero-cost memory manipulation both safe and effortless. It allows developers to reinterpret or convert raw byte sequences into structured types—and vice versa—without writing unsafe code directly. The crate provides safe abstractions for transmuting data while preserving Rust’s strict safety guarantees, removing the need for manual memory manipulation. Zerocopy introduces a suite of conversion traits such as TryFromBytes, FromBytes, IntoBytes, and FromZeros for defining how types can be safely constructed from or written to byte sequences. It also includes marker traits like KnownLayout, Immutable, and Unaligned to define type characteristics used in conversions. Complementing these traits are conversion macros that perform compile-time checks to ensure size and alignment safety, providing zero runtime overhead for unconditional casts. -
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TestCafe
A Node.js tool to automate end-to-end web testing
TestCafe is a Node.js tool for automating end-to-end web testing. All you have to do is set it up, write tests in JS or TypeScript, run them and view the results. There’s no need for WebDrivers or other testing software. Installing TestCafe takes just one minute and one command. TestCafe lets you create smart, stable tests with no manual timeouts. It can run parallel tests, saving you on test execution time, and can even build readable tests with PageObject. TestCafe runs on all popular platforms and environments, from mobile to desktop, as well as remote and cloud browsers. It’s totally free and open source, with plenty of community-made plugins and the freedom to create your own. -
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sysbench
Scriptable database and system performance benchmark
sysbench is a scriptable multi-threaded benchmark tool based on LuaJIT. It is most frequently used for database benchmarks, but can also be used to create arbitrarily complex workloads that do not involve a database server. extensive statistics about rate and latency is available, including latency percentiles and histograms. Low overhead even with thousands of concurrent threads. sysbench is capable of generating and tracking hundreds of millions of events per second. New benchmarks can be easily created by implementing pre-defined hooks in user-provided Lua scripts. Can be used as a general-purpose Lua interpreter as well, simply replace #!/usr/bin/lua with #!/usr/bin/sysbench in your script. Execute events for this many seconds with statistics disabled before the actual benchmark run with statistics enabled. This is useful when you want to exclude the initial period of a benchmark run from statistics. -
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test.vim
Run your tests at the speed of thought
vim-test is a flexible testing runner for Vim and Neovim that provides a unified interface to execute tests across many languages and frameworks from inside the editor. It abstracts differences between tools so you can run nearest test, current file, last test, or entire suite with consistent commands and mappings. The plugin auto-detects supported test frameworks based on project files and adapts its strategy accordingly. Output can be shown in splits, quickfix, or dispatched to external runners, and it integrates smoothly with asynchronous job systems for non-blocking runs. You can configure custom strategies to run tests via terminal, tmux panes, Neovim terminals, or background dispatchers. Its design encourages tight feedback loops, making test-driven workflows natural in Vim. -
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Clinic.js
Clinic.js diagnoses your Node.js performance issues
Node Clinic is a suite of diagnostic tools for Node.js applications, designed to help developers identify and resolve performance issues, memory leaks, and other common problems in their code. -
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phantomas
Headless Chromium-based web performance metrics collector
Headless Chromium-based modular web performance metrics collector. Modular approach, each metric is generated by a separate "module". phantomas "core" acts as an events emitter that each module can hook into. In-depth metrics such as: number of events bound via jQuery, calls to window.writeor complex and duplicated CSS selectors (via analyze-css). JSON as an output format. Easy integration with other nodejs projects via CommonJS module (see API docs). Metrics can be emitted from the JavaScript code of the page phantomas is run against (thanks to helper functions available in window.__phantomas). Device profiles allow phantomas to emulate mobile or tablet (by setting a proper user agent and viewport). phantomas comes as a CommonJS module that you can use in your nodejs projects. Use grunt to automate daily dev tasks, including your's application web performance. -
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Speedtest Tracker
Speedtest Tracker is a self-hosted internet performance tracking app
A Docker image to check your internet speed using Ookla's Speedtest service. Build using Laravel and the Speedtest CLI. Speedtest Tracker is a self-hosted internet performance tracking application that runs speed test checks against Ookla's Speedtest service. The main use case for Speedtest Tracker is to build a history of your internet's performance so that you can be informed when you're not receiving your ISP's advertised rates. Speedtest Tracker is containerized so you can run it anywhere you run your Docker containers. The install documentation will get you up and running using Docker or Docker Composer along with choosing a database (SQLite, MySQL/MariaDB, or Postgresql). -
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TimerOutputs.jl
Formatted output of timed sections in Julia
TimerOutputs.jl is a lightweight Julia package that provides a structured way to measure and report the execution time of different parts of code. It is particularly useful for performance profiling in scientific computing, allowing developers to annotate sections of code and generate readable timing summaries. TimerOutputs.jl supports nested timers and formatted output to both terminal and files, helping users easily identify bottlenecks in their programs. -
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PyLoris
A protocol agnostic application layer denial of service attack.
PyLoris is a scriptable tool for testing a server's vulnerability to connection exhaustion denial of service (DoS) attacks. PyLoris can utilize SOCKS proxies and SSL connections, and can target protocols such as HTTP, FTP, SMTP, IMAP, and Telnet. -
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SerialToIP is a simple Terminal Server software providing transparent pipe either in TCP server or TCP client socket mode from TCP/IP to a pre-configured serial port. Implemented in C# for .NET 2.0 so the command line version could work in Mono-runtime as well.
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LoopVectorization.jl
Macro(s) for vectorizing loops
LoopVectorization.jl is a Julia package for accelerating numerical loops by automatically applying SIMD (Single Instruction, Multiple Data) vectorization and other low-level optimizations. It analyzes loops and generates highly efficient code that leverages CPU vector instructions, making it ideal for performance-critical computing in fields such as scientific computing, signal processing, and machine learning. -
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CAT
CAT is the basic component of the server project
CAT is a distributed application performance monitoring and alerting system that specializes in tracking request flows, exceptions, and metrics across microservice ecosystems. It offers real-time dashboards showing throughput, response times, error rates, and service dependency graphs to help operations and development collaborate on reliability issues. In addition to metrics, it enables tracing—propagating context across RPC boundaries so problems like latency spikes or failed calls can be traced end-to-end. Alert rules and anomaly detection can be defined to notify teams proactively. The system supports multiple data backends and ingestion pipelines to collect data from JVM, C/C++, Python, and other ecosystems. With the collected data, Cat supports analysis of hotspots, trending anomalies, and capacity planning to drive continuous reliability improvements. -
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Matrix
Plugin style, non-invasive APM system developed by WeChat
Matrix is an APM (Application Performance Manage) used in Wechat to monitor, locate and analyse performance problems. It is a plugin style, non-invasive solution and is currently available on iOS, macOS and Android. The monitoring scope of the current tool includes: crash, lag, and out-of-memory, which includes the following two plugins, WCCrashBlockMonitorPlugin, which is based on KSCrash framework and features cutting-edge lag stack capture capabilities with crash capture, and WCMemoryStatPlugin, which is a performance-optimized out-of-memory monitoring tool that captures memory allocation and the callstack of an application's out-of-memory event. Determine whether the app is stuck by checking the running status of the Runloop, and support both the iOS and macOS platform. Add time-consuming stack fetching, attaching the most time-consuming main thread stack to the thread snapshot log. -
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Nightwatch.js
End-to-end testing framework in Node.js & using the Webdriver API
Nightwatch.js is an automated, easy to use End-to-End testing framework written in Node.js and using the W3C WebDriver API. It uses the WebDriver API to drive browsers, enabling commands and assertions on DOM elements. Nightwatch.js is used for end-to-end testing of web applications and websites, as well as for Node.js unit and integration testing. It offers a clean yet powerful syntax for quick and easy writing of tests, a built-in command-line test runner, continuous integration and more. It's also easy to extend so you can implement custom commands and assertions.
