Development of a Software Engineering Ontology for Multisite Software Development

Pornpit Wongthongtham, Elizabeth Chang, Tharam Dillon, Ian Sommerville

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Abstract

This paper aims to present an ontology model of software engineering to represent its knowledge. The fundamental knowledge relating to software engineering is well described in the textbook entitled Software Engineering by Sommerville that is now in its eighth edition [1] and the white paper, Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK), by the IEEE [2] upon which software engineering ontology is based. This paper gives an analysis of what software engineering ontology is, what it consists of, and what it is used for in the form of usage example scenarios. The usage scenarios presented in this paper highlight the characteristics of the software engineering ontology. The software engineering ontology assists in defining information for the exchange of semantic project information and is used as a communication framework. Its users are software engineers sharing domain knowledge as well as instance knowledge of software engineering.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1205-1217
Number of pages13
JournalIEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Volume21
Issue number8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Aug 2009

Keywords

  • Software engineering
  • ontology development
  • multisite software development

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