Welcome to Software QUALity Enhancement!

Latest news
22 jun. 2009 : The Squale team attended the 4th annual System@tic internal convention, where Squale was selected to represent the Free/Libre OpenSource Software group. A presentation and a demonstration of Squale has been made to several VIPs like Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, our current Minister of State in charge of Forward Planning, Assessment of Public Policies and Development of the Digital Economy in the French government.
9 jun. 2009 : As Squale has been selected to represent the Free/Libre OpenSource Software group at the 4th annual System@tic internal convention, a video clip has been shot and will be used during this special event. And you can already watch it on Squale home page!
26 may 2009 : Air France, PSA Peugeot-Citroën and Qualixo made a presse release together to announce the first open-source version of Squale.
03 apr. 2009 : Karine Mordal is working on a paper that will deal about the Squale quality model and show how it differs from what currently exists. She submitted an abstract of her paper to the 25th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance.

The Software QUALity Enhancement project (aka "Squale Project") has two main goals :

  • To provide quality models :
    • inspired by existing standards (ISO-9126) and approaches (GQM, McCall),
    • validated and improved by famous researchers who are part of the Squale team

  • To develop an open-source application that helps assessing software quality and improving it over time
    • based on (but not depending on) any kind of third party technologies (commercial or open-source) that produce raw quality information (like metrics for instance),
    • using the different models previously defined to aggregate this raw information into high level quality factors,
    • all this targeting different languages, including Java, C/C++, .NET, PHP, Cobol, ...
A third goal is to work on models that can give economical indicators about the return of investment of quality efforts. This part is also covered by research investments.

26 jan. 2009 : we are pleased to announce

Squale is an open-source project

Squale Application is developed and distributed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 3.
Squale Quality Model research documents are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.

Brief history

After being supported and labeled by the System@tic Paris-Region competitive cluster in its Free/Libre OpenSource Software group, Squale was selected in the 5th FUI call for projects at the end of year 2007.

The project officially started in June 2008, and is now on the road. The first official open-source version was released in January 2009.