FlossQuality

The portal  www.flossquality.eu regroups information of several open source quality research projects.

Projects

FLOSSMETRICS

The project adresses the need for more factual information about libre (free, open source) software with an in-depth empirical analysis of thousands of projects.

SQO-OSS

The project is developing a comprehensive suite of software quality assessment tools. These tools will enable the objective analysis and benchmarking of Open Source software.

Calibre

CALIBRE aims to coordinate te study of the characteristics of open source software projets, products and processes, distributed development, and agile methods.

Pypy

The PyPy project aims at producing a flexible and fast Python implementation. The guiding idea is to translate a Python-level description of the Python language itself to lower level languages.

FLOSSWORLD

The project aims to strengthen Europe’s leadership in FLOSS and open standards research, building a global constituency with partners from Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Croatia, India, Malaysia and South Africa.

EDOS

The project aims to study and solve problems associated with the production, management and distribution of open source software packages.

QualiPSo

The goal of the QualiPSo integrated project is to define and implement technologies, procedures and policies to leverage the Open Source Software development current practices to sound and well recognized and established industrial operations.

Other OSS research activities

The EU has supported a number of initiatives in the domain of free and open source softwares.