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Improving Software Quality Using an Ontology-Based Approach

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On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2015 Workshops (OTM 2015)

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The paper aims to define a novel methodology to evaluate the quality of software systems. The methodology is applying the following steps: evaluate object oriented metrics, select quality category, and evaluate quality category. The approach to software quality evaluation is based on an ontology that was defined for the ISO25010 standard. The quality evaluation is enhanced by taking into consideration several object-oriented (OO) metrics and including them into the ontology. A case study is presented regarding the impact of OO metrics on the reliability category. The paper presents preliminary results on the methodology and concludes on the benefits of using an ontology to derive new facts in the context of software quality assessment.

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  1. Computer Science Department 1, Babes-Bolyai University, M. Kogalniceanu, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

    Simona Motogna, Ioana Ciuciu, Camelia Serban & Andreea Vescan

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  1. University Babes-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

    Ioana Ciuciu

  2. University of Lorraine, Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy Cedex, France

    Hervé Panetto

  3. Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland

    Christophe Debruyne

  4. University of Lorraine, Vandoevre-les-Nancy, France

    Alexis Aubry

  5. Iserlohn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

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  6. Universidad de Murcia, Murcia, Spain

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  7. Atilim Univeristy, Ankara, Turkey

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  8. Semantic Technology Institute, University Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

    Anna Fensel

  9. National Research Council, Rome, Italy

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Motogna, S., Ciuciu, I., Serban, C., Vescan, A. (2015). Improving Software Quality Using an Ontology-Based Approach. In: Ciuciu, I., et al. On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2015 Workshops. OTM 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9416. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26138-6_49

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