Ontology for knowledge condensation to support expertise location in the code phase during software development process

Abstract

Software Development is a complex process, in which every software product is a knowledge representation of all the involved people. In agile software development, knowledge is prone to vaporise, because documentation is not a priority as indicated in the agile manifesto. This condition generates problems such as poor understanding of the requirements, knowledge transfer deficiency among developers, time wasted by developers while searching for knowledge. The objective of this work is to reduce architectural knowledge vaporisation by means of knowledge condensation to support expertise location (high-level knowledge at a given time). This through an ontology that will condensate the knowledge in the code phase. This study presents the description of an ontology development process following the Methontology Framework. Results show that the proposed ontology does not present incongruence or inconsistency and answers the competency questions correctly. The main contribution of this study is the ontology which brings several benefits such as a shared concept of the knowledge in the code phase and a way to link the artefacts (resources used by developers in the project) and the experts (artefacts provider).

Research on Event Logic Knowledge Graph Construction Method of Robot Transmission System Fault Diagnosis

“…At present, OWL2 has become the recommended description language for ontology modeling [28]. In addition, part of the research work focuses on the ontology construction methods, including skeleton method [29], methodology method [30], seven-step method [31] and so on, among which seven-step method is more mature and effective than other ontology modeling methods [32], [33], so seven-step method is one of the most popular modeling methods, which can combine with prot ĺęg ĺę tools to achieve ontology modeling. Therefore, this paper refers to the seven-step method to construct fault diagnosis ontology of transmission system.…”

Task allocation and coordination process in distributed agile software development: an ontology based approach

“…As minimal documentation is prioritized in agile software development, knowledge tends to vaporize leading to issues like poor understanding of requirements and technical solutions, delay in software development projects [ 19 ]. It is also difficult to search for artefacts and experts.…”

“…It is also difficult to search for artefacts and experts. Martinez-Garcia et al [ 19 ] aimed at condensing knowledge by using an ontology to provide an information structure that can perform automated reasoning about knowledge. The authors adopted Methontology approach to come up with the ontology.…”

“…The factors considered are limited for CSCW systems. The ontology by Martinez-Garcia et al [ 19 ] is limited to coding phase in the software development process. A limited number of factors was considered for the ontology development.…”

“…Rocha et al [ 18 ] add that such an approach enhances task allocation and coordination process by preventing task misinterpretation. Ontologies have been used in different phases of the software development process as classified by Vizcaíno et al [ 16 ] and Martínez-García et al [ 19 ]. Gruber [ 20 ] defines an ontology as an “explicit specification of a conceptualization”.…”