Software Engineering Ontology for Software Engineering Knowledge Management in Multi-Site Software Development Environment

The software engineering ontology defines common sharable software engineering knowledge including particular project information. Software engineering ontology typically provides software engineering concepts - what they are, how they are related, and can be related to one another - for representing and communicating over software engineering knowledge and project information. These concepts facilitate common understanding of software engineering project information to all the distributed members of a development team in a multi-site development environment. Reaching a consensus of understanding is of benefit in a distributed multi-site software development environment. Software engineering knowledge is represented in the software engineering ontology whose instantiations are undergoing evolution.