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October 11, 2024
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Software Quality Assurance as a Service: Encompassing the quality assessment of software and services

Publicated to: Future Generation Computer Systems. 156 254-268 - 2024-01-01 156(), DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2024.03.024

Authors:

Bernardo, Samuel ; Orviz, Pablo; David, Mário; Gomes, Jorge; Arce Grilo, Alexandre David; Naranjo-Delgado, Diana María; Blanquer Espert, Ignacio; Campos, Isabel; Moltó, Germán; Pina, Joao
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Lab Instrumentat & Particles LIP, Ave Prof Gama Pinto 2 - Author
UC, CSIC, Inst Phys Cantabria, Ave Castros S-N - Author
Univ Politecn Valencia, Inst Instrumentac Imagen Mol I3M, CSIC, Camino Vera S-N - Author
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Abstract

This paper introduces the Software Quality Assurance as a Service (SQAaaS) concept and it describes an opensource implementation of a comprehensive platform that supports the automated assessment of specific quality metrics for software and services, defined as a set of baseline requirements. The platform is openly accessible, focuses on research software and open science, and promotes best practices by awarding standards-based digital badges to software and services. It provides an easy-to-use web-based graphical user interface which facilitates the interaction with server-side components in charge of automatically creating CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery) pipelines for automated testing of the baseline criteria. The service is in production and has performed over 2800 assessments, awarding more than 125 digital badges across several scientific disciplines.
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Keywords

Digital badgesOpen scienceSoftware qualitySoftware sustainability

Quality index

Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Future Generation Computer Systems due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2024 there are still no calculated indicators, but in 2023, it was in position 15/147, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Computer Science, Theory & Methods. Notably, the journal is positioned above the 90th percentile.

Independientemente del impacto esperado determinado por el canal de difusión, es importante destacar el impacto real observado de la propia aportación.

Según las diferentes agencias de indexación, el número de citas acumuladas por esta publicación hasta la fecha 2026-04-06:

  • WoS: 2
  • Scopus: 5
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Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2026-04-06:

  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 137 (PlumX).

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • The work has been submitted to a journal whose editorial policy allows open Open Access publication.
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Leadership analysis of institutional authors

This work has been carried out with international collaboration, specifically with researchers from: Portugal.

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