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Fanfare Uses Mono for Test Automation Software

Fanfare is a Silicon Valley startup building a commercial software solution to enable test automation for equipment vendors. The company’s product, FanfareSVT is an integrated test development environment with a unified approach for rapidly building test cases and automating the equipment Quality Assurance (QA) process. Fanfare also delivers the FanfareSVT Runtime, an application that enables FanfareSVT test cases to be integrated quickly into equipment vendors' existing regression testing infrastructure.

Fanfare recognized the need for cross-platform support as a requirement early in the development process to accommodate their customers' legacy systems. “Our customers are typically using home-grown automation systems that run on a variety of operating systems,” said Andy Waddell, Sr. Software Engineer at Fanfare.

Find out how Mono helped Fanfare save months of development time while making their code more robust and giving them the ability to deploy not only on Linux, but on a wide variety of platforms.

Read more... (http://www.go-mono.com/pdfs/Fanfare_v2.pdf)

Who uses Mono?

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  • Novell (http://www.novell.com): Novell uses Mono for both client and server applications:
    • iFolder (http://ifolder.com) (client and server on Linux and OSX),
    • ZenWorks Linux Management (http://www.novell.com/products/zenworks/linuxmanagement/),
    • its Desktop search product (Beagle (http://beaglewiki.org)),
    • photo management (F-Spot (http://f-spot.org)),
    • Groupware Server (Hula (http://hula-project.com)),
    • media player software (Banshee (http://banshee-project.org)), and its
    • secret store manager (CASA).
  • Codice Software (http://www.codicesoftware.com/): they develop a commercial Source Code Management product called Plastic (http://www.codicesoftware.com/opproducts.aspx).
  • MindTouch (http://www.mindtouch.com/): their Managed Office Server uses Mono under the hood as part of their Dream framework.
  • Medsphere (http://medsphere.com): The Medsphere OpenVista software allows physicians to access complete patient health information at the point of care, and it runs on both Windows and Linux, thanks to Mono. Medsphere customers now have the flexibility to choose the OS that is right for them, without worrying about application availability.
  • Völcker Informatik (http://www.voelcker.com): When customers began demanding Linux support for their ActiveEntry provisioning system, Völcker engineers turned to Mono to create a single cross-platform codebase. A complete profile of the process is available at the Novell success stories page. (http://novell.com/success/volcker.html)
  • Quantifi Solutions: (http://quantifisolutions.com) Specialists in complex financial instruments, Quantifi Solutions use Mono to mix C# and C++ code in their finance modeling software. Their financial models are refined constantly, so they need code that is easy to manage and easy to maintain, while still running fast enough to keep up with the markets. One of the Quantifi engineers discusses their implementation here in the mailing list archives (http://galactus.ximian.com/pipermail/mono-list/2005-May/027131.html).
  • Otee (http://www.otee.dk): Their Unity 3D game modeling tool uses Mono so customers can build cross-platform video games. Their engineers have also spoken about their Mono use on the Mono mailing list (http://galactus.ximian.com/pipermail/mono-list/2005-May/027196.html)
  • Versora (http://versora.com): Windows-to-Linux migration specialists Versora used Mono and C# to produce a cross-platform tool that helps companies move system and application setttings and user data. Read their success story (http://www.go-mono.com/pdfs/Versora_v3.pdf) here.
  • Fiducial (http://www.fiducial.fr/): This French business services company uses Mono to power their intranet.
  • Neoware (http://neoware.com): Check the HTTP headers on the website for thin-client vendor Neoware: those ASPX pages are served up usig mod_mono, Apache, and Linux. How many other ASP.NET sites using Mono can you find? Let us know when you come across one, and we'll post it here.
  • imeem (http://www.imeem.com/): imeem's mac client takes advantage of Mono and open source cocoa binding they created called Dumbartion.
  • Fanfare (http://www.fnfr.com/): Fanfare is a Silicon Valley startup building a commercial software solution to enable test automation for equipment vendors. Fanfare utilizes Mono to allow their FanfareSVT Runtime to work across platforms. Check out their success story (http://www.go-mono.com/pdfs/Fanfare_v2.pdf) here.
  • SplendidCRM (http://www.splendidcrm.com/): Splendid CRM is a commercial open source product that was originally developed for Windows and .NET but now runs on SUSE Linux with Mono. Read their announcement (http://news.tmcnet.com/news/2006/08/15/1794955.htm).

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