[EN] This paper introduces the Software Quality Assurance as a Service (SQAaaS) concept and it describes an open-source imple- mentation 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.

This work has taken place in the framework of the project EOSCSynergy funded by the European Union s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 857647. The work also benefited from the support of INCD funded by FCT, Portugal and FEDER, Portugal under the project 01/SAICT/2016 n◦ 022153. Ongoing developments are being funded by the project An interdisciplinary Digital Twin Engine for science (interTwin) that has received funding from the European Union s Horizon Europe Programme under Grant 101058386. Also, project A Digital Twin for Geophysical Extremes (DT-GEO) funded by Horizon Europe under the grant agreement No 101058129.