Apptest is a project mainly written in PHP and SHELL, it's free.
An installation profile for new project application testing.
This is a Drupal installation profile that I use in order to bring up a dev environment very quickly. My purpose for using it is for new project applications.
It includes a pretty standard installation profile with the addition of the following:
I borrowed quite a bit from the Aten Development Base profile (http://drupal.org/project/aten_dev_base)
and added a build script for ease of use.
usage:
open the ./build script and change the configurations for the database (user,
pass,host,name)
from the commandline: ./build
You may need sudo to run this as it does a couple chmod commands that require it.