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WinCC OA Engineering Toolkit

winccoa-tools-pack

Engineering tools for serious WinCC OA work

winccoa-tools-pack brings together the building blocks for modern WinCC OA development: reusable npm packages, GitHub Actions, VS Code extensions, testing support, documentation tooling, and practical automation that helps teams work faster without sacrificing quality.

WinCC OA developer toolingVS Code extensionsCI/CD automation

Quality and test infrastructure

Ecosystem

This organisation has grown around real engineering work in the WinCC OA space, covering shared libraries, validation, documentation, project setup, testing, and automation.

56

WinCC OA-related repositories in the recent activity set

1,527

Commits across WinCC OA work in the last 12 months

454

Pull requests delivered across the toolchain

81.72%

Share of recent engineering effort focused on WinCC OA topics

What You Find Here

A practical toolkit for engineers building, checking, documenting, and running WinCC OA projects.

Core npm packages

Reusable libraries for project inspection, project registration, syntax checks, code style checks, and documentation workflows.

npm-winccoa-core

npm-winccoa-syntax-check

npm-winccoa-ctrl-code-style

VS Code extensions

Extension-based tooling for CTRL language support, project administration, databases, logs, UI panels, MCP integration, and project workflows.

vscode-winccoa-ctrllang

vscode-winccoa-project-admin

vscode-winccoa-database

Automation and CI

Reusable GitHub Actions and supporting packages for test execution, documentation builds, repository setup, and quality gates.

github-actions-winccoa

action-publish-skills-docs

winccoa-devcontainer

Highlighted Repositories

Representative projects that show the breadth of the organisation.

npm-winccoa-core

Shared foundation for WinCC OA project discovery, project metadata, utility functions, and common developer workflows.

Core

winccoa-native-gui-test-framework

Framework support for native GUI testing in WinCC OA, with a strong focus on reliability, clear test intent, and maintainable automation.

Testing

github-actions-winccoa

Reusable GitHub Actions for WinCC OA build, test, documentation, style, syntax, and repository automation workflows.

CI/CD

npm-winccoa-docu-builder

Documentation tooling for turning engineering knowledge into structured, publishable project documentation.

Docs

Principles

The direction behind the organisation.

Build real tools

Everything here should solve a recurring engineering problem, not just exist as a showcase.

Raise quality

Code style, syntax validation, tests, documentation, and review discipline are treated as first-class engineering concerns.

Share knowledge

Good engineering becomes more valuable when it is reusable, documented, and easy for other teams to adopt.

Where To Start

A simple path into the ecosystem for engineers who are new to winccoa-tools-pack.

Start with the foundations

Explore the tools documentation and repository templates first if you want to standardise how WinCC OA projects are structured and automated.

Pick the workflow you need

Use syntax checking, code style, documentation builders, and test tooling incrementally instead of adopting everything at once.

Treat the organisation as a toolkit

These repositories are designed to work together: packages feed automation, automation supports repositories, and documentation carries the practice forward.

Welcome

winccoa-tools-pack is about turning WinCC OA engineering into a more modern, repeatable, testable, and productive practice.

This page is intentionally focused on WinCC OA topics only and is designed as a welcome page for the organisation, not as a personal contribution report.