A Syntactic and Semantic Assessment of a Global Software Engineering Domain Ontology

Globalization has allowed organizations to intensify the search for solutions that minimize challenges, reduce costs and optimize processes. In this way, global software development has emerged as an attempt to use the best resources for its limitations. In distributed environments, the use of Ontologies brings some benefits such as a uniform understanding of information among teams and ease of communication, as well as making for the lack of a reference model that can be applied in a distributed context. This work aims to propose a viable form of validation for DKDonto a domain ontology developed for Global Software Engineering. The validation allowed a broader and more targeted assessment, different from its original validation, which was carried out in a controlled environment, limited to answering questions already known by the knowledge base itself. The main result of this work is a satisfactory evaluation of the ontology, enabling it to be used and shared by companies or institutions, as well as the presentation of a set of methods and ways to evaluate and verify domain ontologies to be used in different domains.