qualitygate on csmr wcre 2014 conference

QualityGate SourceAuditA Tool for Assessing the

Technical Quality of Software

Tibor Bakota, Péter Hegedűs, István Siket,

Gergely Ladányi and Rudolf FerencUniversity of Szeged

Aims• QG SourceAudit is a software quality management tool

• Objective assessment of software product quality– Based on the ISO/IEC 25010 standard

– Fully customizable (own model, benchmark, weights, etc.)

• Holistic view on maintainability– Continuous monitoring

– Warns on quality decline

• Ideal from a managerial perspective

• Gives also technical information on how to improve the maintainability– Technical reports at source code level

– Source code view for problem highlighting

– Ticketing mechanism integrated with Eclipse IDE

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Background

• Measuring source code maintainability– An acyclic directed graph with source code metrics at the bottom

– Structure follows the ISO/IEC 25010 standard

– Benchmark database as the basis of the comparison

– The edges of the graph can be weighted

• Comes with continuous integration support– Regularly checks for changed source code in the VCS

– Performs static source code analysis of the source code by using the tool

– Uploads the results to the central repository

– Computes the source code maintainability based on the models and benchmarks in the repository

– Visualizes the uploaded results in the web client

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Appetizer

• Keep an eye on system level maintainability and development costs

• Full customizability – create your own…– …quality model

• Sensor metrics and high level structure

• Weighting scheme

– …benchmark database• Adapt to different domains

• Use large amount of open-source systems quickly

• Build a benchmark from similar industrial projects

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The default Java quality model

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The default benchmark statistics

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The certification details of a system

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The timeline of the maintainability costs of the system

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The breakdown table view of SourceAudit

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Annotations and source view

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Metrics in the source view

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SourceAudit Eclipse plug-in

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Listing clone instances in SourceAudit

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Clone instances in the source view

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The active tickets in the current version

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Summary

• QG SourceAudit is a software quality management tool

• Objective assessment of software product quality based on the ISO/IEC 25010 standard

• Comparison to other systems (i.e. benchmark) and expert weighting ensures objectivity and an absolute measure of quality

• Seamless integration into the current build processes by continuous integration support

• Ideal from a managerial perspective

• Gives also technical information on how to improve the maintainability

• Provides an Eclipse IDE plugin helping the developers to instantly fix the revealed problems

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More Information

• FrontEndART Ltd.

• http://frontendart.com/

• QualityGate product family

• http://www.quality-gate.com/

• SourceMeter static source code analyzerand its SonarQube plug-in

• http://www.sourcemeter.com/