ByteCarrot is an open source configuration validation utility for Windows, Linux and Unix. It gives administrators, developers, testers and QA specialists possibility to automate:

• health monitoring of operating systems, databases, web servers, network, etc.;
• configuration validation of operating system and applications installed on top of it;
• installation (IQ) / operational qualification (OQ) tests required by U.S. Food and Drug Administration;

Testing capabilities of ByteCarrot are highly extensible. That makes it an ideal solution for many testing scenarios even not mentioned above.

Key features

Runs under:

• all Windows operating systems supported by .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 or above
• all Linux and Unix operating systems supported by Mono 2.4.2.3 or above

Command line utility:

• easy to execute manually and from any scheduling solution
• can execute test script and return report in XML and/or HTML format
• can use custom XSL templates for rendering reports in HTML format
• can verify correctness of test script
• can show all available tasks and checks
• can be extended with custom tasks and checks

Test scripts:

• are stored as a text files in XML format
• can be parametrized
• can contain conditionally executed groups of tests
• can contain description elements required in test reports
• can contain groups for cleaner tests organization
• can contain tasks preparing data/environment before testing
• can contain wide range of checks (testing tasks) responsible for testing

Test reports:

• contain all information from test executions
• provides information about test results at every level of granularity