Development and Evaluation of a Software Requirements Ontology

He Tan, Muhammad Ismail, Vladimir Tarasov, Anders Adlemo, Mats Johansson

2016

Abstract

This paper presents an ontology which has been developed to represent the requirements of a software component pertaining to an embedded system in the avionics industry. The ontology was built based on the software requirements documents and was used to support advanced methods in the subsequent stages of the software development process. In this paper it is described the process that was used to build the ontology. Two pertinent quality measures that were applied to the ontology, i.e. usability and applicability, are also described, as well as the methods used to evaluate the quality measures and the result of these evaluations.

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Tan H., Ismail M., Tarasov V., Adlemo A. and Johansson M. (2016). Development and Evaluation of a Software Requirements Ontology . In Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Software Knowledge - Volume 1: SKY, (IC3K 2016) ISBN 978-989-758-202-8, pages 11-18. DOI: 10.5220/0006079300110018


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@conference{sky16,
author={He Tan and Muhammad Ismail and Vladimir Tarasov and Anders Adlemo and Mats Johansson},
title={Development and Evaluation of a Software Requirements Ontology},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Software Knowledge - Volume 1: SKY, (IC3K 2016)},
year={2016},
pages={11-18},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006079300110018},
isbn={978-989-758-202-8},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Software Knowledge - Volume 1: SKY, (IC3K 2016)
TI - Development and Evaluation of a Software Requirements Ontology
SN - 978-989-758-202-8
AU - Tan H.
AU - Ismail M.
AU - Tarasov V.
AU - Adlemo A.
AU - Johansson M.
PY - 2016
SP - 11
EP - 18
DO - 10.5220/0006079300110018