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EC and EP use open source for software development
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- Created on Wednesday, 23 March 2016 16:17
The European Commission and the European Parliament generally use open source tools and methods for software development, concludes the EU-FOSSA project, following a review of 15 ongoing projects. The institutions’ project management tools make room for agile, collaborative development cycles.
Commonly-used open source tools include solutions for continuous integration and deployment of software, Jenkins and CruiseControl. These solutions let software developers manage updates of their code, which in turn helps to prevent errors.
Software developers working for the European Commission and the European Parliament also use open source code management tools Apache Subversion and GIT. The EC and EP software developers also commonly use Eclipse as integrated development environment, and Apache Maven as a build tool. For automated testing, they turn to Selenium.
In addition, software libraries related to security, such as OpenSSL and Spring Security, are standard development tools used in both institutions.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no. 611242