Domain-oriented software development environment

The use of an enterprise ontology to support knowledge management in software development environments

“…As for approach limitations, the current Knowledge Management Infrastructure, through its tool for edition of Domain Theories [5], allows the evolution of Domain Ontologies, including the Software Engineering (SE) Ontology, anytime. However this evolution is only perceived in new EOSDEs generated from the EOSDE infrastructure, because new classes to hold the ontology instances are automatically created based on the new ontology definition.…”

“…Tools to support the description and updating of tasks and Domain Theories [5], organizations' structure and processes [6] as well as the capture of knowledge items [11] are provided by the Knowledge Management Infrastructure of EOSDEs.…”

“…[4,5] and ZLOT et al [8] have respectively dealt with Domain and Task Ontologies. Moreover, the need of a specific Domain or Task Ontology depends on the specific organization for which an EOSDE is constructed.…”

“…Ontologies have been used in Domain Oriented Software Development Environments (DOSDEs) [4,5] to support software developers in their activities by providing domain and task knowledge that can be used throughout the software development process. However, after the definition and building of DOSDEs for different domains [4] it can be seen that, apart from domain and task knowledge, other kinds of knowledge could also be necessary and useful during a software project, mainly knowledge regarding the enterprise working context.…”

“…However, after the definition and building of DOSDEs for different domains [4] it can be seen that, apart from domain and task knowledge, other kinds of knowledge could also be necessary and useful during a software project, mainly knowledge regarding the enterprise working context. This paper describes an approach strongly based on ontologies to support Knowledge Management in Software Development Environments (section 2).…”