Hyades这个名字来源于天文学:"Outlining the head of Taurus the Bull, stars in the Hyades cluster are important to us. Oh, they give us pleasure to behold, but they also enable us to measure the universe.", Anthony G. A. Brown, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
Hyades is an integrated test, trace and monitoring environment, based on Eclipse, that provides standards, tools and tool interoperability across the test process.号称the Eclipse Automated Software Quality Integration Framework.包括Test Tools Framework ,Performance, Log and Trace Tools Framework ,Interoperable Information Models ,Data Collection Framework and Runtime ,User Interface .
Hyades is designed to provide common facilities useful to tools that analyse application usage and manage and implement functional and load evaluation testing in distributed multi-platform, multi-language, multi-vendor deployment environments.
访问http://www.eclipse.org/hyades/,下载软件包和语言包,包括FAQ,安装指导等.对自动测试,JUNIT感兴趣的,赶快加入吧.