Improving Agile Software Development with Domain Ontologies

Pedro Lopes de Souza; Antonio Francisco do Prado; Wanderley Lopes de Souza; Sissi Marilia dos Santos Forghieri Pereira; Luís Ferreira Pires

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-77028-4_37

Improving Agile Software Development with Domain Ontologies

Pedro Lopes de Souza^*, Antonio Francisco do Prado, Wanderley Lopes de Souza, Sissi Marilia dos Santos Forghieri Pereira, Luís Ferreira Pires

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Abstract

In this paper we propose to apply domain ontologies in agile software development to reduce the ambiguity caused by using natural language as ubiquitous language to report user stories. To justify and demonstrate our approach, we present a case study that combines Scrum and Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) in the development of an educational support system, which was built to support the activities of the Medicine Programme of Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar) in Brazil. Starting from a reference ontology for the Higher Education domain, we gradually specialized this ontology for this programme. Since we selected the Evaluation Management module of this system for our case study, we applied the Evaluation Process Ontology to that programme, and defined user stories to identify the feature set to be implemented. For evaluation and validation purposes, we assessed the quality of all ontologies used in this work according to structural and functional dimensions.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Information Technology - New Generations - 15th International Conference on Information Technology
Editors	Shahram Latifi
Publisher	Springer
Pages	267-274
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Print)	9783319770277
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77028-4_37
Publication status	Published - 2018
Event	15th International Conference on Information Technology : New Generations, ITNG 2018 - Las Vegas, United States Duration: 16 Apr 2018 → 18 Apr 2018 Conference number: 15

Publication series

Name	Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
Volume	738
ISSN (Print)	2194-5357

Conference

Conference	15th International Conference on Information Technology : New Generations, ITNG 2018
Abbreviated title	ITNG 2018
Country/Territory	United States
City	Las Vegas
Period	16/04/18 → 18/04/18

Keywords

BDD
LMS
Ontology
PBL
Scrum

UN SDGs

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de Souza, P. L., do Prado, A. F., de Souza, W. L., dos Santos Forghieri Pereira, S. M., & Pires, L. F. (2018). Improving Agile Software Development with Domain Ontologies. In S. Latifi (Ed.), Information Technology - New Generations - 15th International Conference on Information Technology (pp. 267-274). (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing; Vol. 738). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77028-4_37

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de Souza, PL, do Prado, AF, de Souza, WL, dos Santos Forghieri Pereira, SM & Pires, LF 2018, Improving Agile Software Development with Domain Ontologies. in S Latifi (ed.), Information Technology - New Generations - 15th International Conference on Information Technology. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol. 738, Springer, pp. 267-274, 15th International Conference on Information Technology : New Generations, ITNG 2018, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, 16/04/18. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77028-4_37

Improving Agile Software Development with Domain Ontologies. / de Souza, Pedro Lopes; do Prado, Antonio Francisco; de Souza, Wanderley Lopes et al.
Information Technology - New Generations - 15th International Conference on Information Technology. ed. / Shahram Latifi. Springer, 2018. p. 267-274 (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing; Vol. 738).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

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de Souza PL, do Prado AF, de Souza WL, dos Santos Forghieri Pereira SM, Pires LF. Improving Agile Software Development with Domain Ontologies. In Latifi S, editor, Information Technology - New Generations - 15th International Conference on Information Technology. Springer. 2018. p. 267-274. (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing). doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-77028-4_37

Improving Agile Software Development with Domain Ontologies

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