The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and student outreach programs. Last December we announced the initial release of LiquidFun, a C++ library that adds particle physics, including realistic fluid dynamics, to the open-source Box2D. Today, we’re excited to be releasing LiquidFun 1.0! New features in this release include: Multiple particle systems New particl

The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and student outreach programs. If you are a developer, source code is some of the most important data you have. It needs to be backed up regularly, it must be readily accessible from all of your machines, and it may even be confidential. Most of the code is probably already stored under version control. With this in mind

The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and student outreach programs. We are proud to release Wicked Good XPath, a Google-authored pure JavaScript implementation of the DOM Level 3 XPath specification. We believe it to be the fastest XPath implementation available in JavaScript. To use Wicked Good XPath, simply download the wgxpath.install.js file and include

The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and student outreach programs. Leak finder for JavaScript helps web application developers find memory leaks in their JavaScript programs. In garbage-collected languages, such as JavaScript, you cannot have traditional memory leaks by forgetting to free memory: when all references to an object are dropped, the object is g

The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and student outreach programs. Solving non-linear least squares problems comes up in a broad range of areas across science and engineering - from fitting complicated curves in statistics, to constructing 3D models from photographs in computer vision. Today we're happy to announce the release of a solver we use at Google.

The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and student outreach programs. ChromeDriver is a tool for testing websites with Google Chrome that implements the open source WebDriver wire protocol so it can easily be integrated with an existing WebDriver test suite. For those who aren't familiar with WebDriver, you may want to refer to our initial post about the proje

We are thrilled to announce the open sourcing release of WindowTester Pro, a solution that automates the process of GUI testing. WindowTester Pro is shipped as a Eclipse plugin and has support for Eclipse versions 3.5, 3.6 and 3.7. WindowTester Pro was previously offered by Instantiations Inc. Using WindowTester Pro, developers can easily create tests for every GUI they create. The tests generated

The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and student outreach programs. Data and code open sourced from Google's Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal project Google’s RE<C renewable energy research project has recently open sourced a new tool and a significant amount of data to support future CSP (concentrating solar power) heliostat development. HOpS Open Source

Today, we’d like to announce the release of DartBox2D, a port of the wildly successful Box2D physics engine to Dart, Google’s new language for the web. Box2D has been ported to other languages, including JavaScript, but this release opens the door to Dart becoming a language for games on the web, which, as we all know, is what the web is really for (that and pictures of cats, of course). The work

The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and student outreach programs. Google Body was built by Google engineers in their “20% time” and was retired along with Google Labs last year. Today we’re pleased to announce that the software underlying Google Body is now open source. Zygote Media Group, which provided the imagery for Google Body, has used this open sour

The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and student outreach programs. SymPy is a computer algebra system (CAS) written in pure Python. The core allows basic manipulation of expressions (like differentiation or expansion) and it contains many modules for common tasks (limits, integrals, differential equations, series, matrices, quantum physics, geometry, plotti

When the Closure Tools were first released a little over two years ago, they gave web developers the ability to organize and optimize their JavaScript and HTML in a new way. But there was something missing, namely, a tool to help manage CSS. You see, the nature of CSS runs contrary to the DRY principle that is exhibited in good software engineering. For example, if there is a color that should be

The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and student outreach programs. We are pleased to announce the open source release of a Javascript coverage analysis tool called ScriptCover. It is a Chrome extension that provides line-by-line Javascript code coverage statistics for web pages in real time without user modification of the site. Results are collected when t