Effective use of ontologies in software measurement

Ontologies are frequently used in the context of software and technology engineering. These can be grouped into two main categories, depending on whether they are used to describe the knowledge of a domain (domain ontologies) or whether they are used as software artifacts in software development pro...

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Published in:Knowledge engineering review 2009-03, Vol.24 (1), p.23-40
Main Authors: García, Félix, Ruiz, Francisco, Calero, Coral, Bertoa, Manuel F., Vallecillo, Antonio, Mora, Beatriz, Piattini, Mario
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Case studies
Comparative analysis
International standards
Knowledge
Ontology
Proposals
Software
Software engineering
Taxonomy
Terminology
Vocabularies & taxonomies
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Summary:Ontologies are frequently used in the context of software and technology engineering. These can be grouped into two main categories, depending on whether they are used to describe the knowledge of a domain (domain ontologies) or whether they are used as software artifacts in software development processes. This paper presents some experiences and lessons learnt from the effective use of an ontology for Software Measurement, called software measurement ontology (SMO). The SMO was developed some years ago as a result of a thorough analysis of the software measurement domain. Its use as a domain ontology is presented first, a description of how the SMO can serve as a conceptual basis for comparing international standards related to software measurement. Second, the paper describes several examples of the applications of SMO as a software artifact. In particular, we show how the SMO can be instantiated to define a data quality model for Web portals, and also how it can be used to define a Domain-Specific Language (DSL) for measuring software entities. These examples show the significant role that ontologies can play as software artifacts in the realm of model-driven engineering and domain-specific modeling.
ISSN:0269-8889
1469-8005
DOI:10.1017/S0269888909000125