Chameleon Overview

Chameleon is a data automation tool developed by Black Knight Technology in support of one of our Government contracts. Chameleon differs from testing, analysis, and validation tools because it is a plug-in based, general purpose tool. Chameleon itself facilitates automation through a common user interface. Plug-ins developed by the user can do almost anything, including but not limited to testing, analysis, data conversion, data formatting, validation, and metrics calculations.

Key Features

• Openly adaptable via plug-ins written in .Net or Python
• Intuitive graphical user interface
• Efficient command line client
• Highly scalable
• Automatic updates on your LAN
• Full documentation
• Mature and stable - over 450 unit tests run automatically on every source code commit.

Chameleon has been in development and use since April 2005. Over this time, Chameleon has evolved into a stable and mature product capable of handling a wide variety of tasks. Chameleon itself is only limited by the plug-ins it has to run. Black Knight strives to provide complete, concise, and coherent documentation that makes using Chameleon and writing plug-ins for Chameleon as easy as possible.

Benefits

• Save on development - use Chameleon instead of rolling custom user interfaces for tools
• Common user interface reduces training and complexity
• Three degrees of automation come free (multiple files, multiple plug-ins, run automatically) - save time and reduce errors
• Easily leverage existing technologies and code

Chameleon makes your team better by not requiring that you reinvent the wheel. Let your developers concentrate on the hard stuff: developing algorithms, tests, and metrics. Chameleon supplies you with a ready to use, stable user interface. By framing the context of your project as a plug-in instead of a program, you can cut your work in half leaving more time to concentrate on the business logic and not the development (and headaches) of designing and implementing a full-fledged application. Further, the open plug-in architecture lends itself to sharing information (and work load) by sharing plug-ins. Now, others can easily benefit from your work, and you can benefit from the work of others.

Support

• Mailing list updates for new releases and milestones
• Bug tracker (usually receives a response in 1 business day or less)
• Access to plug-in source code upon request
• Online access to the Chameleon Plug-in API
• Online manual / in-tool help
• Direct email/phone support from Vincent

Chameleon is a fully-supported product. Between the mailing list, bug tracker, on- and offline help documentation, and direct support from our staff, our full-featured support network keeps you up and running.