Ontology Driven Definition of a Portlet Functionality Model

In the software measurement context, there exists a lack of consensus among the concepts and terminology used. Even inconsistencies and terminology conflicts can be detected among standards. For this reason, a software measurement ontology (SMO) has come into existence with the aim of providing a coherent software measurement terminology. In this paper, an example of the use of SMO as framework for the definition of a portlet functionality model is presented. Attributes, measures as well as indicators have been identified for the portlet functionality following the SMO