AN ONTOLOGY FOR UNDERSTANDING AND APPLYING OBJECT-ORIENTED DESIGN KNOWLEDGE

• DOI: 10.1142/s0218194007003318
• Publication Date: 2007-07-27T00:58:18Z
• Authors: JAVIER GARZÁS; MARIO PIATTINI
• Keywords: Design knowledge; Software mining

After years of experience in object-oriented design, software engineers have accumulated a great deal knowledge the design and construction systems: important contributions to this field including principles, heuristics, lessons learned, bad smells, refactorings, so on, with resultant major improvements development. However, large body is still not well organized, its terminology ambiguous, it very difficult make practical use made. In regard, we believe define an ontology order structure unify knowledge, since good understanding derived from work critical for engineers. This could be used improve communication between engineers, inter-operability among designs, re-usability, searching specification, maintenance, acquisition, etc. incorporate specific both domain technology. Such organized also registering documenting rationale issues.