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Semantic wiki for quality management in software development projects

Semantic wiki for quality management in software development projects

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Quality management has become a strategic issue for organisations and is very valuable to produce quality software. However, quality management systems (QMS) are not easy to implement and maintain. The authors' experience shows the benefits of developing a QMS by first formalising it using semantic web ontologies and then putting them into practice through a semantic wiki. The QMS ontology that has been developed captures the core concepts of a traditional QMS and combines them with concepts coming from the MPIu+a development process model, which is geared towards obtaining usable and accessible software products. Then, the ontology semantics is directly put into play by a semantics-aware tool, the Semantic MediaWiki. The developed QMS tool is being used for 2 years by the GRIHO research group, where it has manages almost 50 software development projects taking into account the quality management issues. It has also been externally audited by a quality certification organisation. Its users are very satisfied with their daily work with the tool, which manages all the documents created during project development and also allows them to collaborate, thanks to the wiki features.

Inspec keywords: quality management; project management; software development management; software quality; ontologies (artificial intelligence); search engines; semantic Web

Other keywords: quality certification organisation; software products; semantic MediaWiki; QMS tool; semantic Web ontologies; MPIu+a development process model; quality management systems; software development projects

Subjects: Search engines; Knowledge engineering techniques; Software management; Information networks; Software engineering techniques

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