Methodology for Multi-site Software Engineering using Ontology

摘要

The disadvantages associated with remote communication rather than face-to-face communication is a problem in the multi-site distributed software development environment. If everyone -working on a certain project is located in the same area, then situational awareness is relatively straightforward; however, the overheads in communications to get together to discuss the problems, to raise issues, to make decisions and to find answers in a multi-site distributed environment can become very large. Consequently, these problems cause developmental delays, as outstanding issues have not been resolved, issues cannot be discussed immediately, or just in time over a multi-site environment. Ontology enables the sharing of an agreement among teams distributed across the sites by making assumptions explicit. The representation of software engineering concepts, software development tasks, software development models, software development processes, software development issues and development solutions, as well as software development documentation using an ontology or sub-ontology, will provide intuitive, clear, precise concepts and ideas, knowledge and classified issues.