Open AccessAn Ontology-Based Approach for Software Measurement Systems Integration
Author(s) -
Vinícius Soares Fonseca,
Monalessa Perini Barcellos,
Ricardo de Almeida Falbo
Publication year - 2016
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Conference proceedings
DOI - 10.5753/sbqs.2016.15151
Subject(s) - computer science , ontology , software engineering , semantic integration , process (computing) , ontology based data integration , software , context (archaeology) , software development , system integration , world wide web , semantic web , database , semantic computing , programming language , paleontology , philosophy , epistemology , biology
Software measurement is performed in the context of various software processes that, generally, have different supporting tools. Thus, organizations have to deal with integration issues to enable the communication between tools and to properly support the measurement process. A key factor for integration is that tools share a common understanding regarding the meaning of the exchanged terms and services, i.e., it is important to deal with integration at the semantic level. Ontologies have been acknowledged as an important means to address semantic integration. In this paper we present the Ontology-Based Approach for Measurement Systems Integration (OBA-MSI), an approach that uses ontologies as a basis to integrate tools aiming at supporting the software measurement process. In order to evaluate OBA-MSI, it was applied to integrate tools in a software development organization.