A Software Measurement Task Ontology

Software measurement is a key process for software project management and software process improvement. There are several process quality models and measurement standards that point out its importance and present good practices for it. Unfortunately, the vocabulary used by these models is diverse. This leads to misunderstanding and problems related to the jointly use of different standards. Aiming at establishing a common conceptualization regarding the software measurement process, we developed a Software Measurement Task Ontology (SMTO), which is grounded on the Unified Foundational Ontology. This task ontology was developed to be used for addressing semantic interoperability problems arising from the jointly use of different measurement-related standards, as well as for supporting semantic integration of software applications supporting measurement