Open Source Unix Shell Software Development Software

COOK is a software build-automation tool made with a goal of letting you, the programmer, to utilize the most elegant and powerful programming language - Common Lisp - for managing your software builds. You write a recipe file which describes what objectives must be constructed. COOK will load and process this file, then produce either a regular Makefile or a Bourne Shell script, which will actually perform the task of building and installing your targets.

Firefly's Beetroot is a regression tester designed with ease of use in mind. The only requirement to operate it is some basic knowledge of the UNIX shell. Note that this is not a unit test framework. Testing occurs at program granularity, not at a level of a function. This is meant to be used only with software with a stable user interface. Changes in the interface could break your tests. Be warned.

Modernish is a library for shell script programming which provides features like safer variable and command expansion, new language constructs for loop iteration, and much more. Modernish programs are shell programs; the new constructs are mixed with shell syntax so that the programmer can take advantage of the best of both. There is no compiled code to install, as modernish is written entirely in the shell language. It can be deployed in embedded or multi-user systems in which new binary executables may not be introduced for security reasons, and is portable among numerous shell implementations. The installer can also bundle a reduced copy of the library with your scripts, so they can run portably with a known version of modernish without requiring prior installation.