Reengenharia de uma ontologia de processo de software e seu uso para a integração de ferramentas de apoio ao planejamento de projetos

Abstract

The increasing interest in the area of integration between software systems has promoted the emergence of approaches to address this issue. In general, systems integration can occur at four levels, namely hardware, platform, syntactic and semantic levels. At the semantic level, which is the focus of this work, the meaning of the involved components must be as clear as possible during the integration process. In other words, the intended meaning of concepts in the data schema, operations signatures and services should be made explicit. In this context, a domain ontology can be used to define an explicit representation of this shared conceptualization and as reference during the integration process. This work applies the approach OBA-SI, which is an approach of ontology-based semantic integration, to integrate the data layer of the tools that support the software project planning, control and tracking. During the integration process, a software process ontology (SPO) is used to add semantics to the concepts of the tools involved in this process. In order to suitably serve as a reference model, the SPO has gone through a reengineering process based on UFO (Unified Foundational Ontology).