owf12/open source from research labs to enterprise it : squash from henix 20121011
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Issued from a collaborative project with key account
Michaël Belkasmi, R&D Project Manager
Safi Virginius, Software Qualification Consultant
by
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THE SQUASH PROJECT
211/10/2012
• SQUASH is an open source project which purpose is to structure and
industrialize functional testing and more widely software.
• The project was selected for the Fond Unique Interministériel and is partly
funded by Oséo, the Île de France region and the 92 department.
• Four areas of work :
Some figures on the
funded project
Duration24 months
(from March 2011
to February 2013)
Total
costs2,996 M€
Grants1,286 M€(Collectivities)
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BUILDING THE PROJECT
311/10/2012
THAT COULD BENEFIT
THE WHOLE COMMUNITY
LAUNCH A LARGER
INITIATIVE
TO IMPROVE EXISTING
TOOLS
A need for open source qualification tools
Several tools developed for a single task
Why not capitalize on those tools and this experience ?
AND GENERATE SOME
LONG-TERM PROFITS
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TRANSFORMING AN IDEA INTO A PRODUCT
Building the project
…
•Building the partnership
•Building the proposal
Submission to the System@tic Pole
Selection of the proposal
Notification of the financial agreement by the
DGCIS*
Contract agreement with the grant makers
Start of the developments on Squash TM
Official start of the project
•Building the workflow
•Implementing the results…
End of the funding period
…
411/10/2012
Late February 2013
March, 1st 2010
Sept. 2010
Aug. 2010
June 2010
Nov. 2010
May 2010
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BUILDING THE PARTNERSHIP
AN OPERATIONAL PARTNERSHIP
SMEs HENIX
KALIS
INSTITUTIONALINRIA
PARIS VIII
MAJOR ACCOUNTS
GENERALI
GDF
511/10/2012
Incubators
Contribution to the engineering
results
Experts
(performance, code quality, all-
around innovation)
Needs, ideas, feedbacks
Implementation of the research
results
A FINANCIAL PARTNERSHIP
FUI
(Fonds Unique Interministériel)
CIR
(Crédit Impôts Recherche)
VA
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INT
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TS
Monthly review with partners
Yearly review with grantmakers
As coordinator
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Brainstorm the ideas,
Design aprototype,
and build theproduct
Implement the new prototype,
Provide with users’ feedbacks and specific needs for
development
Generateinnovative ideas
and
quality metrics
THE SQUASH LIFECYCLE
611/10/2012
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Henix
Kalis
Generali
GDF
INRIA
Paris VIII
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IMPLEMENTING THE RESULTS
711/10/2012
Test Management
Test Automation
Test Data Sets Management
(integrated in the Squash TA framework)
Qualification Service Centers
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IMPLEMENTING THE RESULTS
811/10/2012
• Two research papers published.
• An academic curriculum
• A School for Software Quality
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FOCUS : BACK AND FORTH TO ACADEMICS
911/10/2012
A comprehensive three-months training in software qualifications (60 days –
420h)
Based on an academic curriculum designed as part of the pedagogical and
methodological repository.
a 27k€ salary offer
14 profiles selected out of 187 applications on the last session.
14 new jobs as Software Qualification Consultants created by an R&D project!
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BUILDING A COMMUNITY
1011/10/2012
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BUILDING THE BUSINESS PLAN…
1111/10/2012
Henix’s approach of an open source business model
As an OSS editor…
Training , coaching
Support, Maintenance
Specific developments
Deployment assistance
20%
80%
OSS editor
Qualification services
Expected results
As a Qualification services
provider…
Call for projects with Squash as the main
tool
Service offers
Open Source is not free!! (although it is undoubtedly cheaper…)