The project aims to address one of the perceived barriers to entry in the adoption of Open Source software – proof that software which is free and publishes its source-code can out-perform expensive, brand-marketed software.
Lead by the Athens University of Economics and Business, consortium participants include UK-based Sirius Corporation, KDE e.V. and ProSyst in Germany, KDAB in Sweden and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
The project will:
- Deliver a plug-in based quality assessment platform, featuring a web
and an IDE front-end. - Develop a set of software metrics that will take into account quality
indicators from data that is present in an Open Source project’s
repository. - Publish a league of Open Source software applications, categorised by
their quality. - Release its output under the BSD licence to stimulate business
interest.
Professor Diomidis Spinellis, Project Lead said: “An industry matures when its products become standardised commodities. Through the objective evaluation of open source projects, SQO-OSS will provide many smaller and less known projects with the visibility and respectability they deserve.”
