Developing an Ontology for Architecture Knowledge from Developer Communities

Software architecting is a knowledge-intensive activity. However, obtaining and evaluating the quality of relevant and reusable knowledge (and ensuring that this knowledge is up-to-date) requires significant effort. In this paper, we explore how online developer communities (e.g., Stack Overflow), t...

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Published in:ICSA 2017 : proceedings : 2017 IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture : 3-7 April 2017, Gothenburg, Sweden pp. 89 - 92
Main Authors: Soliman, Mohamed, Galster, Matthias, Riebisch, Matthias
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Published: IEEE 01.04.2017
Subjects:
architecture design decisions
architecture knowledge
Computer architecture
developer communities
Encoding
Ontologies
Reliability
Semantics
Software
Software architecture
stack overflow
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Abstract Software architecting is a knowledge-intensive activity. However, obtaining and evaluating the quality of relevant and reusable knowledge (and ensuring that this knowledge is up-to-date) requires significant effort. In this paper, we explore how online developer communities (e.g., Stack Overflow), traditionally used by developers to solve coding problems, can help solve architectural problems. We develop an ontology that covers architectural knowledge concepts in Stack Overflow. The ontology provides a description of architecture-relevant information to represent and structure architectural knowledge in Stack Overflow. The ontology is empirically grounded through qualitative analyses of different Stack Overflow posts, as well as inter-coder reliability tests. Our results show that the architecture knowledge ontology in Stack Overflow captures architecture-relevant information and supports achieving practitioners' requirements and concerns.
AbstractList Software architecting is a knowledge-intensive activity. However, obtaining and evaluating the quality of relevant and reusable knowledge (and ensuring that this knowledge is up-to-date) requires significant effort. In this paper, we explore how online developer communities (e.g., Stack Overflow), traditionally used by developers to solve coding problems, can help solve architectural problems. We develop an ontology that covers architectural knowledge concepts in Stack Overflow. The ontology provides a description of architecture-relevant information to represent and structure architectural knowledge in Stack Overflow. The ontology is empirically grounded through qualitative analyses of different Stack Overflow posts, as well as inter-coder reliability tests. Our results show that the architecture knowledge ontology in Stack Overflow captures architecture-relevant information and supports achieving practitioners' requirements and concerns.
Author Riebisch, Matthias
Soliman, Mohamed
Galster, Matthias
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Reliability
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Software architecture
stack overflow
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