The Hyades project provides an open source platform for Automated Software Quality (ASQ) tools, and a range of open source reference implementations of ASQ tooling for testing, tracing and monitoring software systems.

By integrating ASQ tooling into the Eclipse development environment, and providing effective tool interoperability among ASQ tools and with other tools, the Hyades project aims to move software quality practices earlier into the application development cycle, and to allow a consistent and continuous approach to ASQ processes throughout development, deployment and out into production.

Hyades provides a unified data model, a normative user experience and workflow, and a united set of APIs and reference tools that work consistently across the range of targets.

The goal of Hyades is to bring ASQ tools into the Eclipse environment to maximizes integration with tools used in the other processes of the software lifecycle. This enhanced integration should reduce the cost and complexity of implementing effective automated software quality control processes.