Modeling software processes by using process and object ontologies

Abstract

In order to model software processes based on ontologies engineering techniques, this paper presents a methodology to manually construct the following ontologies: an object ontology based on constituent elements for objects, and a process ontology based on relationships between inputs and outputs, such as subsumption relationships. Next, using the constructed ontologies, software process plans are generated for user queries, with both user interaction and constraint satisfaction by generate and test paradigm. Furthermore, experimental results show that the methodology works well in generating software process plans for a query about a software process plan from a basic design and to a detailed design.