Originally posted by Tony William:
By looking at the TOC of the book, tools in different areas (such as Code Management, build script, issue tracking etc) are discusse.
Are the software / tools discussed mainly open-source? or in fact commercial software that the reader needs to buy so that we can try?
We kept the book topics as language and vendor neutral as we could, but included language specific resouces in the appendixes. I've also set up an online version
here.
We've provided links to both open source and commercial vendors, but honestly, you can almost always set up the entire system with open source software if you're willing to invest the time. One of the blog entries that I haven't written yet is how I would set up a shop if I was starting from scratch.
So, no, there are no tools you'd have to buy to try these ideas out.