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Specifying and Analyzing a Software Testing Ontology at the Top-Domain Ontological Level
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https://doi.org/10.24215/16666038.21.e12Keywords:
ontologies, software testing, terminologies, top-domain ontological level, vocabulariesAbstract
One of the Software Engineering areas that supports quality assurance is testing. Given that specific processes, artefacts, methods and ultimately strategies for software testing involve a large number of domain concepts, it is valuable to have a robust conceptual base, that is, a software testing ontology that defines the terms, properties, relationships and axioms explicitly and unambiguously. Ontologies for instance foster a clearer terminological understanding of process and method specifications for strategies, among many other benefits. After analyzing both the results of a conducted Systematic Literature Review of primary studies on conceptualized software testing ontologies and the state-of-the-art of testing-related standards, we decided to develop a software testing top-domain ontology named TestTDO that fits our goals. Therefore, this article specifices development, verification and validation aspects of the TestTDO, which was built following the Design Science Research approach.
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Tebes, G., Olsina, L., Peppino, D., & Becker, P. (2021). Specifying and Analyzing a Software Testing Ontology at the Top-Domain Ontological Level. Journal of Computer Science and Technology, 21(2), e12. https://doi.org/10.24215/16666038.21.e12
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