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Unit Tests for Ontologies

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On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2006: OTM 2006 Workshops (OTM 2006)

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In software engineering, the notion of unit testing was successfully introduced and applied. Unit tests are easy manageable tests for small parts of a program – single units. They proved especially useful to capture unwanted changes and side effects during the maintenance of a program, and they grow with the evolution of the program.

Ontologies behave quite differently than program units. As there is no information hiding in ontology engineering, and thus no black box components, at first the idea of unit testing for ontologies seems not applicable. In this paper we motivate the need for unit testing, describe the adaptation to the unit testing approach, and give use cases and examples.

An erratum to this chapter can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11915072_109.

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  1. Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany

    Denny Vrandečić

  2. LOA Laboratory of Applied Ontology, Rome, Italy

    Aldo Gangemi

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  1. STARLab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Bldg G/10, Pleinlaan 2, 1050, Brussels, Belgium

    Robert Meersman

  2. School of Computer Science and Information Technology, RMIT University, Bld 10.10, 376-392 Swanston Street, 3001, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Zahir Tari

  3. Facultad de Informática, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Campus de Montegancedo S/N, 28660, Boadilla del Monte, Madrid, Spain

    Pilar Herrero

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Vrandečić, D., Gangemi, A. (2006). Unit Tests for Ontologies. In: Meersman, R., Tari, Z., Herrero, P. (eds) On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2006: OTM 2006 Workshops. OTM 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4278. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11915072_2

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