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Enhancing Software Maintenance by using Semantic Web Techniques
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@MISC{Hyland-Wood_enhancingsoftware,
author = {David Hyland-Wood and David Carrington and Simon Kaplan},
title = {Enhancing Software Maintenance by using Semantic Web Techniques},
year = {}
}
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Abstract
Software systems and information about them diverge quickly in time, resulting in difficulties understanding and maintaining them. Information about software systems, or system metadata, may include functional and nonfunctional requirements documentation, metrics, the success or failure of tests and the means by which various components interact or were intended to interact. Various proposals have been made to link software components and their metadata. We propose another such system using Semantic Web techniques to encode system metadata and demonstrate the particular advantages that these techniques offer. Specifically, we show how the use of an OWL-DL ontology of software engineering concepts, RDF encoding of system metadata and SPARQL queries over the resulting RDF graph can be used to enable languageneutral relational navigation of software systems thus facilitating software understanding and maintenance.
Keyphrases
semantic web technique system metadata software maintenance software system rdf graph various component languageneutral relational navigation software component sparql query nonfunctional requirement documentation rdf encoding owl-dl ontology various proposal software engineering concept particular advantage software understanding
