Eclipse QSOS

Eclipse QSOS (Qualification and Selection of Open Source Software) is both a methodology and a collaborative tool that allows users to define, evaluate, qualify and compare open source software based on the specific needs and constraints of a company, organization, project or individual.

The scope of this project includes:

• The documentation describing the QSOS Methodology
• The web application and central repository allowing to put into practice that methodology

The web application has the following features:

• Defining types of software
• Referencing all types of licenses
• Referencing software and their different versions
• Defining versioned evaluation grids
• Evaluating software maturity based on predefined generic criteria
• Defining domain-specific evaluation criteria (evaluation grids)
• Evaluating open-source software
• Defining user-specific requirement presets in the form of weightings for evaluation grid criteria
• Comparing different software or versions of software according to a specific evaluation grid and requirement presets
• Display a comparison table and some visualization charts
• Importing legacy QSOS files
• Exporting comparisons as PDF