Desenvolvimento de um módulo de web semântica para um sistema de suporte à inspeção de software

Abstract

In 1976, Fagan proposed a process for software inspections, this proposal was based on the need for an improvement in the quality of software products developed at that time. However, due to its systematic, he became known for being difficult to implant, because was necessary adapt it to be able to be used, or just use other systems that somehow either automated the execution of software inspections. Some of these automated systems provide services that access knowledge bases, which represent the software inspection process, allowing the automation of activities in this process. Ontology is an explicit and formal specification able to represent domain concepts through the relationship between these concepts, and then through the use of an ontology can represent concepts involving software inspection. Based on the need to automate the inspection process, it was created an inspection support system software, which is part of a research project. The work presented here is part of this research project, this work has for objective the development of a Semantic Web module for software inspection system based on IEEE 1028. This Semantic Web module provides services that enable management of ontologies previously loaded by the module, informing individuals and their properties to it. Services are also provided for deletion, updating, and retrieval of individuals of the ontology. For that, this semantic Web module was developed in as a component, which can be used by any system that requires the use of ontologies. This component can be accessed through communication interfaces provided by the module, which provide the same services to any system. For the creation of this component has been used the OWL API, through it you can handle the ontology individuals and their relationships. To retrieve individuals were created methods based on their relationships, and methods that performing SPARQL queries can retrieve such individuals. After the development of the Semantic Web module it was integrated to the software inspection support system. Using the services of the SemanticWeb module, which worked with an ontology that represents the software inspection process was possible to populate the ontology with his individuals, and use the SPARQL query service offered by the module to retrieve the information necessary for the automation of some phases of the software inspection process. Although the module has been developed to work with the software inspection support system, but it is able to work with any system requiring his services, to it is necessary to load the ontology that will be used.