DTF open sourced

Back in 2001 we had tens of hundreds of tests for the HP Transaction Service and a team of dedicated QA engineers. It took a week to run all of the tests across the combination of OS, hardware, JDK and database combinations. When we span out we didn't have those resources so had to develop the Distributed Test Framework, which is many ways is a Grid infrastructure: it supports the automatic deployment of services and software across arbitrary nodes, VM, OS etc. to execute tests and collate the results. It is truly distributed in nature and runs distributed tests (where the client(s) and service(s) run across different combinations of VM, hardware, OS, db etc.) We managed to have the same QA coverage with a fraction of the people and in a fraction of the time (and cost). I'm happy to say that we've finally open sourced it as well!