Tools
23 October 2006
QSOS evaluations are formatted in XML. Several tools are available (or under development) to manipulate these XML documents.
Template Editor
Before starting a new QSOS evaluation, a template (or functional grid) specific to the software family is required. A specific editor, “QSOS XUL Template Editor”, is available as a xulrunner application or a Firefox extention. The XML format was designed to be also easily edited by hand, so you can use any text editor to modify the files.
Sheet Editors
Several editor are available to evaluate a software once you have the associated template.
| Editors | Technologies used | Comments |
| QSOS Qt Editor | Qt/Perl | Only runs on Linux and Unix. Available here. |
| QSOS XUL Editor | Mozilla XUL/Javascript | Packaged as a xulrunner application or a Firefox extention |
| QSOS Java Editor | Java | EA beta version is available here. |
| QSOS Ruby Editor | Ruby | Under development |
O3S
O3S stands for “Open Source Selection Software”, it is a Web application to be used to visualize, weight and compare QSOS sheets as described in the method. It allows to visualize, compare, export evaluation sheets to OpenDocument format, as well as generate PNG or SVG graphs. It is available here: http://www.qsos.org/o3s/.
QSOS Engine
The QSOS engine regroups severals tools available to validate, controle and publish QSOS sheets and templates stored in the QSOS repository. These tools are available here in CVS
CVS Repository
Hosted on Savannah (the FSF forge), it provides storage and versioning of the method itself as well as evaluations, templates, tools and libraries to manipulate QSOS documents (now available are Java, Javascript, Perl and Ruby librairies).
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