Ontology Driven Software Development for Automated Documentation

Recent outsourcing /off-shoring software development practices testify that any developmentdone without a proper sharing mechanism leads to the generation of inconsistent information,which further results in an undesired, error-prone software. Further, with the business processautomation, a significant way to minimize human effort involves various development, supportand maintenance activities to reuse available information. Thus, reusing and sharing informationin a standardized way is the key operative challenges which foster the need to identify andexploit novel knowledge-based frameworks. The proposed research provides a tool-basedsolution to automate the software documentation process using ontologies. This multi-phaseframework has overall six phases where each phase output contributes to the final automateddocumentation. To evaluate the extent of automated documentation it is compared using free andopen source software known as WCopyfind to the existing manual documentation for a ResultManagement System case study. Preliminary results show a highest automation of 60 percent,which is clearly noteworthy.