Harri Porten (born 1972) is a software engineer. Porten, a KDE developer and former Trolltech employee, is the CEO of Froglogic, a consultancy company related to Qt development. He lives in Hamburg, Germany.

Porten originally wrote the KJS JavaScript engine for Konqueror, the KDE project's file manager and web browser.[1] KJS was eventually used by Apple as the basis for JavaScriptCore.[2] He also contributed to the development of KPPP, the KDE project's Internet dialer.[citation needed]

Porten took part in the development of Qt, a GUI toolkit used by Windows, macOS, and X11 developers.[3]

His company Froglogic is known for Squish, a professional cross-platform automated GUI testing framework for applications written using Qt.[4]

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  1. ^ "KDE QuickGit :: kjs.git/blob". Archived from the original on 23 April 2014. Retrieved 29 October 2016.
  2. ^ "[KDE-Darwin] JavaScriptCore, Apple's JavaScript framework based on KJS". 10 March 2007. Archived from the original on 10 March 2007. Retrieved 29 October 2016.
  3. ^ Staff, OSNews. "Interview with TrollTech's Harri Porten". Retrieved 29 October 2016.
  4. ^ "QANews.com". Archived from the original on 7 September 2012. Retrieved 29 October 2016.
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