M7 First quality assessment report of B3 software

Software developed by B3 partners needs to be open, portable and high-quality. These intentions are expressed in the B-Cubed software development guide, as 77 requirements that B3 software needs to meet. From June 19 to July 12, 2024, we reviewed ten software tools developed by or related to B3 and assessed how well these are currently meeting the requirements. Software scores fairly good overall (76%), especially regarding required metadata. More work is required for two Python tools and in creating or collecting software tutorials for the B-Cubed guides and tutorials website (https://docs.b-cubed.eu/). This first quality assessment report also acts as a benchmark to compare against in a second quality assessment report that will be produced towards the end of the project.