An Ontology Model to Support the Automated Evaluation of Software

Abstract

Even though previous research has tried to model Software Engineering knowledge, focusing either on the entire discipline or on parts of it, we lack an integrated conceptual model for representing software evaluations, and we also lack the information related to them that supports their definition and enables their automation and reproducibility. This paper presents an extensible ontology model for representing software evaluations and evaluation campaigns, i.e., worldwide activities where a group of tools is evaluated according to a certain evaluation specification using common test data. During the development of the ontologies, we have reused current standards and models and have linked these ontologies with some renowned ones.