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Modules to keep site builders and developers happy

Features (http://drupal.org/project/features)
Provides feature management for Drupal. Features provides a UI and API for taking different site building components from modules with exportables (CCK, Views, etc.) and bundling them together in a single feature module.
Strongarm (http://drupal.org/project/strongarm)
Requires Chaos tool suite.
Gives site builders a way to automatically override the default settings that Drupal core and contributed modules ship with.
Chaos tool suite (http://drupal.org/project/ctools)
A library of helpful tools by Merlin of Chaos, for use by other modules.
Drupal for Firebug (http://drupal.org/project/drupalforfirebug)
Requires Firefox plugins Firebug and Drupal for Firebug.
Extends the Firefox Firebug module to provide Drupal specific debugging and status messages.
Devel (http://drupal.org/project/devel)
Requires Menu.
Various blocks, pages, and functions for developers.
Drush (http://drupal.org/project/drush)
Not a module, but makes site developers & upgraders very happy. (Stanford users: Drush is installed system-wide on corn.stanford.edu.) Provides "a command line shell and scripting interface for Drupal, a veritable Swiss Army knife designed to make life easier for those of us who spend some of our working hours hacking away at the command prompt."
SimpleTest (http://drupal.org/project/simpletest)
Provides a framework for unit and functional testing.(This functionality is part of core in Drupal 7.)
Security Review (http://drupal.org/project/security_review)
Provides site security and configuration review assistance. (Stanford users: Note that Security Review does not take into account AFS-specific file protection, and so may flag as insecure files that are actually properly protected under AFS.)
Hacked! (http://drupal.org/project/hacked)
"Scans the currently installed Drupal, contributed modules and themes … and determines if they have been changed." In other words, helps you figure out where exactly the previous site developer** changed code they shouldn't have. (**You & I, of course, have never hacked core, cough, cough…)