<s>
The	O
Continuous	O
Quality	O
Assessment	O
Toolkit	O
(	O
ConQAT	B-Application
)	O
is	O
a	O
configurable	O
software	O
quality	O
analysis	O
engine	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
ConQAT	B-Application
is	O
based	O
on	O
a	O
pipes	B-Operating_System
and	I-Operating_System
filters	I-Operating_System
architecture	I-Operating_System
that	O
enables	O
flexible	O
complex	O
analysis	O
configurations	O
using	O
a	O
graphical	O
configuration	O
language	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
ConQAT	B-Application
's	O
underlying	O
pipes	B-Operating_System
and	I-Operating_System
filters	I-Operating_System
architecture	I-Operating_System
manifests	O
in	O
its	O
analysis	O
configuration	O
,	O
so	O
called	O
ConQAT-blocks	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
These	O
blocks	O
contain	O
a	O
network	O
of	O
ConQAT	B-Application
processors	O
or	O
additional	O
blocks	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
For	O
example	O
,	O
graph	O
metrics	O
can	O
be	O
calculated	O
using	O
the	O
same	O
blocks	O
for	O
dependency	O
or	O
control-flow	O
graph	O
of	O
a	O
program	O
or	O
a	O
revision	O
graph	O
from	O
a	O
version	B-Architecture
management	I-Architecture
system	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
ConQAT	B-Application
analyses	O
are	O
usually	O
executed	O
on	O
a	O
command	O
line	O
in	O
batch	O
mode	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
ConQAT	B-Application
implements	O
processors	O
(	O
so	O
called	O
Scopes	O
)	O
to	O
read	O
data	O
from	O
different	O
sources	O
,	O
such	O
as	O
source	O
code	O
or	O
binary	O
code	O
files	O
as	O
well	O
as	O
from	O
issue	B-Application
trackers	I-Application
or	O
version	B-Architecture
management	I-Architecture
systems	I-Architecture
.	O
</s>
<s>
For	O
languages	O
such	O
as	O
Java	B-Language
,	O
C#	O
,	O
C/C	O
++	O
,	O
and	O
ABAP	O
,	O
Lexer	O
processors	O
and	O
other	O
preprocessing	O
operations	O
are	O
available	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
ConQAT	B-Application
implements	O
algorithms	O
for	O
detecting	O
redundancy	O
and	O
architecture	O
analysis	O
in	O
processors/blocks	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Furthermore	O
,	O
it	O
integrates	O
established	O
tools	O
,	O
like	O
FindBugs	B-Language
,	O
FxCop	O
etc	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Although	O
ConQAT	B-Application
supports	O
different	O
output	O
formats	O
(	O
e.g.	O
</s>
<s>
Visualizations	O
include	O
various	O
diagrams	O
and	O
treemaps	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
ConQAT	B-Application
was	O
developed	O
in	O
2007	O
at	O
the	O
Technische	O
Universität	O
München	O
and	O
has	O
received	O
acclaim	O
due	O
to	O
several	O
scientific	O
publications	O
on	O
its	O
architecture	O
as	O
well	O
as	O
analysis	O
techniques	O
for	O
detecting	O
redundancy	O
(	O
clone	O
detection	O
)	O
or	O
architecture	O
conformance	O
analyses	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Since	O
2009	O
,	O
ConQAT	B-Application
has	O
been	O
maintained	O
and	O
developed	O
in	O
a	O
partnership	O
between	O
TU	O
Munich	O
and	O
CQSE	O
GmbH	O
as	O
an	O
open-source	B-Application
project	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
ConQAT	B-Application
is	O
now	O
a	O
dead	O
product	O
.	O
</s>
