OBFRE: An Ontology-Based Framework for Requirements Engineering

Resumen

The nature of requirements engineering involves capturing domain knowledge from diverse sources, including stakeholders with their own interests and points of view. A different under-standing of involved concepts may lead to an ambiguous and incomplete specification and, thus, major rework after system implementation. Therefore, it is important to ensure that all participants in the requirements engineering phase have a shared understanding of the domain knowledge and of the elicited requirements themselves. In order to solve this problem, diverse ontology-based approaches were defined by different authors. The purpose of this paper is to present a framework for using ontologies in a comprehensive and integrated way.