Litmus is a web-based, open source

Open source

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, test case

Test case

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 management/QA

Software quality assurance

Software quality assurance consists of a means of monitoring the software engineering processes and methods used to ensure quality. The methods by which this is accomplished are many and varied, and may include ensuring conformance to one or more standards, such as ISO 9000 or a model such as...

 tool maintained by the Mozilla Corporation

Mozilla Corporation

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/Mozilla Foundation

Mozilla Foundation

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. Litmus can be downloaded from the Mozilla CVS

Concurrent Versions System

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 server.

Mozilla uses the tool to test its own products.

Requirements

Litmus depends on Apache

Apache HTTP Server

The Apache HTTP Server, commonly referred to as Apache , is web server software notable for playing a key role in the initial growth of the World Wide Web. In 2009 it became the first web server software to surpass the 100 million website milestone...

 (web server

Web server

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) and MySQL

MySQL

MySQL officially, but also commonly "My Sequel") is a relational database management system that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. It is named after developer Michael Widenius' daughter, My...

 (database software

Database Software

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). It also requires the following Perl module

Perl module

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s:

• Class::DBI
• Class::DBI::mysql
• Template
• Time::Piece
• Time::Piece::mysql
• Time::Seconds
• Date::Manip
• HTML::StripScripts
• HTML::StripScripts::Parser
• Text::Markdown
• XML::XPath

The use of the Apache module mod perl

Mod perl

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is highly recommended as it highly improves the performance of the software, but not required.