Open AccessMutating OWLs: Semantic Mutation Testing for Ontologies
Author(s) -
Cesare Bartolini
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
open repository and bibliography (university of luxembourg)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Conference proceedings
DOI - 10.5220/0005844600430053
Subject(s) - computer science , idef5 , ontology components , ontology , bridging (networking) , ontology engineering , field (mathematics) , software engineering , process ontology , upper ontology , information retrieval , ontology alignment , semantic web , computer network , philosophy , epistemology , mathematics , pure mathematics
Ontologies are an essential component of semantic knowledge bases and applications, and nowadays they are used in a plethora of domains. Despite the maturity of ontology languages, support tools and engineering techniques, the testing and validation of ontologies is a field which still lacks consolidated approaches and tools. This paper attempts at partly bridging that gap, taking a first step towards the extension of mutation testing techniques to ontologies expressed in a widely-used format. Mutation testing techniques, revisited in the light of the peculiar features of the ontology language and structure, can help in the engineering and refinement of ontologies and software
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