An ontology-based approach to support the knowledge management of software quality standards

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https://doi.org/10.29019/enfoqueute.946

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Quality standards, ontology, software, knowledge management

Abstract

Nowadays, the quality of software systems is crucial for companies to provide high-quality services and products. However, a wide number of software projects still fail. To increase the success probability of projects, it is suitable to adopting software quality standards to guide the process. However, standards are commonly described by means of natural language making difficult its analysis. For example, it is not easy to choose the most suitable standard according to the characteristics of a project. Furthermore, the usage of natural language hinders the automatic detection of inconsistencies and ambiguities. On the other hand, ontologies are an artificial intelligence technique that has been successfully used to represent and analyze knowledge in numerous domains because its capacity to enable the automatic validation and consistency checking of the represented information. This paper aims to present an ontology-based approach to describe and analyze software quality standards. Since this ontology can represent the knowledge of several standards, a reasoner may automatically validate the information and infer new knowledge. This ontology might support the reduction of conceptual ambiguity of standards descriptions and improve its understanding.

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2023-07-01

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Silega, N., Castro Aguilar , G. F., Martillo Alcívar, I., Faggioni, K. M., Rogozov, Y. I., & Lapshin, V. S. (2023). An ontology-based approach to support the knowledge management of software quality standards. Enfoque UTE, 14(3), pp. 49–56. https://doi.org/10.29019/enfoqueute.946

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