SQO-OSS

SQO-OSS

URLs:

• http://sqo-oss.eu/
• http://cordis.europa.eu/fetch?CALLER=PROJ_IST&ACTION=D&RCN=79362
• http://www.sqo-oss.eu/news/releases/european-consortium-to-prove-quality-of-open-source-software

"SQO-OSS aims to increase the competitiveness of European software development SMEs through a holistic approach of software quality assessment, initially targeting open source software. The project seeks to use as many sources of quality indicators as possible so as to create a set of metrics that can be applied automatically to a software project's repository in order to extract quantifiable measurements of its quality.

The project will deliver:

• A plug-in based quality assessment platform, featuring a web and an IDE front-end.
• An enhanced set of software metrics that will take into account quality indicators from data that is present in a project's repository, but not yet used for quality assessment.
• A publicly available league of open source software applications, categorised by their quality characteristics.
• A methodology that will allow European SMEs to leverage the availability of quality-assessed open source software in the development of horizontal and vertical applications and the provision of value-added services.
• Experience reports of how the tool's application affected a large open source project."