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Use of ontology in identifying missing artefact links

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posted on 2017-11-14, 10:43 authored by Foziah Gazzawe, Russell LockRussell Lock, Christian DawsonChristian Dawson
The techniques of requirement traceability have evolved over recent years. However, as much as they have contributed to the software engineering field, significant ambiguity remains in many software engineering processes. This paper reports on an investigation of requirement traceability artefacts, stakeholders, and SDLC development models. Data were collected to gather evidence of artefacts and their properties from previous studies. The aim was to find the missing link between artefacts and their relationship to one another, the stakeholders, and SDLC models. This paper undertakes the first phase of the main research project, which aims to develop a framework for guiding software developers to actively manage traceability. After inquiring into and examining previous research on this topic, the links between artefacts and their functions were identified. The analysis resulted in the development of a new model for requirement traceability, defined in the form of an ontology portraying the contributively relations between software artefacts using common properties with the aid of Protégé Software. This study thus provides an important insight into the future of the requirement artefacts relation, and thereby lays an important foundation towards increasing our understanding of their potential and limitations.

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School

  • Science

Department

  • Computer Science

Published in

7th International Conference on Software and Computer Applications

Citation

GAZZAWE, F., LOCK, R. and DAWSON, C.W., 2017. Use of Ontology in Identifying Missing Artefact Links. IN: Proceedings of 2018 7th International Conference on Software and Computer Applications (ICSCA 2018), Kuanton, Malaysia, February 8-10th. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, pp 6-9.

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Acceptance date

2017-10-24

Publication date

2018

Notes

© 2018 Association for Computing Machinery. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive Version of Record was published in ICSCA 2018 proceedings, http://doi.org/10.1145/3185089.3185092

ISBN

9781450354141

Language

  • en

Location

Kuanton, Malaysia