Towards a Software Development Process Based on Ontologies

Abstract

The relevance and complexity of software are growing more and more. Hence, it is necessary to create and apply new approaches that contribute to deal with the complexity of software development process. Ensuring the consistency and traceability of the software artefacts are two of the challenges that software engineers face during the development of a complex software. On the other hand, the ontologies are one of the main technologies of the semantic web for representing knowledge. Adopting ontologies to support the modelling and validation in software development projects is a feasible alternative that has been widely discussed. Therefore, this paper aims to analyze some ontology-based approaches which address some of the gaps that can be faced during software development projects. For example, the lack of consistency and traceability of software artefacts.