An ontology-based approach to automate the software development process

Abstract

Ontologies are well-known for representing knowledge of a particular domain and an upcoming trend in the field of Computer Science to produce intelligent systems. Further, they help to solve traceability issues and transitive dependencies. Creation of software applications and use of software applications are increased due to new and innovative customer requirements and technologies. Development teams are following several Software Development methodologies to support and to produce quality software applications to the outer world. Agile methodologies are becoming more popular in small organizations and development teams to support the feature by feature development with less throughput. User Stories represent the actual user requirements in Agile. This paper proposes a solution named Sponto, which to automate the software development process using ontology-based approaches to produce reliable boilerplates to the developers and the communities to reuse the base and to build the software applications without spending a considerable amount of time on recreating the artifacts. The proposed solution supports and generates database scripts, Business Process Model diagrams, Java code snippets, and test cases from user stories.